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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.
1.351 ian 38: <br>
39: This article can also be found online at:
40: <ul>
41: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
42: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
43: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
44: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
45: May 17, 2003
46: </strong></font>
1.352 ! ian 47: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
! 48: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 49: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
! 50: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
! 51: Montreal Gazette,
! 52: May 21, 2003
! 53: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 54: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 55: <p>
1.346 ian 56:
57: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 58: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 59: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 60: May 7, 2003.
61: </strong></font><br>
62: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
63: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
64: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 68: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
69: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
70: OsOpinion,
71: May 6, 2003.
72: </strong></font><br>
73: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
74: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
75: <br>
76: This article can also be found online at:
77: <ul>
78: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
79: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
80: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
81: NewsFactor Network.
82: </strong></font>
83: </ul>
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.343 deraadt 87: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
88: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
89: ITBusiness,
90: May 2, 2003.
91: </strong></font><br>
92: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
93: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
94: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
95: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
96: <p>
97:
98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 99: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
100: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
101: InfoWorld,
102: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 103: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 104: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
105: <br>
106: This article can also be found online at:
107: <ul>
108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
109: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
110: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
111: IDG Singapore.
112: </strong></font>
113: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 114: <p>
115:
1.339 jose 116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
117: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
118: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 119: ZDNet,
120: May 1, 2003.
121: </strong></font><br>
122: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 123: someone using parts from previous articles.
124: <br>
1.341 deraadt 125: This article can also be found online at:
126: <ul>
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
128: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
129: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
130: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 131: </strong></font>
132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
133: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
134: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
135: CNET News.com.
136: </strong></font>
137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
138: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
139: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
140: ZDNet UK.
141: </strong></font>
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
143: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
144: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
145: Help Net Security, Croatia.
146: </strong></font>
147: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 148: <p>
1.339 jose 149:
1.341 deraadt 150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
151: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
152: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
153: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
154: May 1, 2003.
155: </strong></font><br>
156: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
157: that have been added
158: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
159: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
160: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 161: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 162: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
163: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
164: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 165: <p>
166:
167: </ul>
168:
1.253 ian 169: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
170: <ul>
1.255 ian 171:
1.260 ian 172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 173: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 174: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
175: TechRepublic,
176: April 28, 2003.
177: </strong></font><br>
178: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
179: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 180: work.<br>
181: Can also be found online at:
182: <ul>
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
184: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
185: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
186: ZDNet UK.
187: </strong></font>
188: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 192: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
193: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
194: IDG,
195: April 24, 2003.
196: </strong></font><br>
197: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
198: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
199: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
200: Can also be found online at:
201: <ul>
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
203: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
204: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 205: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 206: </strong></font>
207: </ul>
208: <p>
209:
210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
211: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 212: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 213: Slate,
214: April 24, 2003.
215: </strong></font><br>
216: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
217: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
218: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
219: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 223: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
224: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
225: April 24, 2003.
226: </strong></font><br>
227: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
228: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
229: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
230: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 234: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
235: April 24, 2003.
236: </strong></font><br>
237: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
238: the free software community".
239: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
240: other articles.
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
244: <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>,
245: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
246: </strong></font><br>
247: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
248: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
249: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
250: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
251: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
252: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
253: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
254: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
255: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
256: <br/>
257: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
258: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
259: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
260: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 261: <br>
262: Can also be found online at:
263: <ul>
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
266: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
267: Common Dreams NewsCenter
268: </strong></font>
269: </ul>
1.324 ian 270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
273: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
274: Wired, April 24, 2003.
275: </strong></font><br>
276: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
277: article above.
278: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
279: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
280: wasting them."
1.332 ian 281: <br>
282: Can also be found online at:
283: <ul>
284: <li>
285: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
286: </strong></font>
287: </ul>
1.324 ian 288: <p>
289:
290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 291: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
292: </strong></font><br>
293: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 297: <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.
298: </strong></font><br>
299: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
300: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
301: <p>
302:
303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 304: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
305: April 23, 2003.
306: </strong></font><br>
307: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
308: <p>
309:
310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 311: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 312: April 22, 2003.
313: </strong></font><br>
314: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 318: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
319: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
320: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 321: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 322: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
323: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
324: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
325: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
326: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
327: Can also be found online at:
328: <ul>
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
330: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 331: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
332: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 333: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
335: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 336: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
337: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 338: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 339: </ul>
340: <p>
341:
342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 343: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
344: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 345: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 346: </strong></font><br>
347: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 348: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
349: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
350: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
351: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
352: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
353: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 357: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
358: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 359: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
360: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 361: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
362: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
363: at UPenn and DARPA.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 367: [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
368: April 18, 2003.
369: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 370: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 371: <p>
372:
373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 374: [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 375: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 376: </strong></font><br>
377: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 381: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
382: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
383: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 384: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 385: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
386: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
387: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 391: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
392: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 393: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 394: </strong></font><br>
395: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
396: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
397: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 398: American century.
1.267 deraadt 399: <p>
400:
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 402: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
403: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 404: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 405: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 406: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
407: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
408: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
409: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
410: Can also be found online at:
411: <ul>
412: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
413: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 414: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 415: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 416: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 417: <p>
418:
419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 420: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 421: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 422: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 423: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 424: </strong></font><br>
425: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 426: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
427: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
428: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
429: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 430:
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
432: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
433: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
434: New York Times.
435: </strong></font>(free registration required)
436:
1.273 deraadt 437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
438: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 439: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 440: ABC News.
441: </strong></font>
442:
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 444: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 445: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 446: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 447: </strong></font>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 450: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 451: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 452: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 453: </strong></font>
454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 456: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
457: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 458: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 459: </strong></font>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 462: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 463: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 464: Times Daily, AL.
465: </strong></font>
466:
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
468: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
469: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
470: Boston.com, MA.
471: </strong></font>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 474: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 475: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 476: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
477: </strong></font>
478:
479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 480: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
481: [Article was pulled]</a>
482: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 483: </strong></font>
484:
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
486: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
487: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
488: Infoshop News.
489: </strong></font>
490:
491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
492: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
493: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
494: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
495: </strong></font>
496:
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 498: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
499: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
500: Raleigh News, NC.
501: </strong></font>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 504: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
505: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
506: Napa News, CA.
507: </strong></font>
508:
509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 510: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 511: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
512: NEPA News, PA.
513: </strong></font>
514:
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
516: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
517: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
518: Wired News.
519: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 520: <br>
521: <li>
1.333 deraadt 522: <font color="#009000"><strong>
523: [JAPANESE]
524: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
525: Wired News Japan</a>
526: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 527:
1.271 deraadt 528: </ul>
529: <p>
1.272 deraadt 530: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
531: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 532: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
533: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
534: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
535: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
536: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
537: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 538: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 539: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
540: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
541: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 542: <p>
543: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 544:
545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 546: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 547: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
548: Indianapolis Star, IN.
549: </strong></font>
550:
551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 552: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
553: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
554: Miami Herald, FL.
555: </strong></font>
556:
557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 558: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 559: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
560: </strong></font>
561:
562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
563: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 564: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 565: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 566: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 567:
568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
569: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
570: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
571: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
572: ABC News.
573: </strong></font>
574:
1.276 deraadt 575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
576: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 577: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 578: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 579: </strong></font>
580:
1.286 dhartmei 581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 582: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 583: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
584: Wilmington Star, NC.
585: </strong></font>
586:
1.300 jose 587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
589: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
590: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
591: </strong></font>
592:
1.309 jose 593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
594: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
595: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
596: Globe Technology.
597: </strong></font>
598:
1.263 deraadt 599: </ul>
1.262 beck 600: <p>
601:
602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 603: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
604: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 605: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 606: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 607: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 608: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
609: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
610: <p>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 613: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
614: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
615: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 616: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 617: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
618: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
619: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
620: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
621: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
622: and simply restates other press reports.
623: <p>
624:
625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 626: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
627: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
628: OS News, April 18, 2003.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 634: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
635: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 636: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 637: </strong></font><br>
638: Another report on the DARPA funding.
639: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
640: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
641: <p>
642:
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 644: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
645: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
646: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
647: April 17, 2003.
648: </strong></font><br>
649: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
650: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
651: Tech Anthems</a>
652: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
653: 4 so far.
654: <p>
655:
656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 657: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
658: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 659: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 660: </strong></font><br>
661: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
662: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
663: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
664: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
665: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
666: Goes on to say:
667: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
668: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
669: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
670: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 671: This article is also found online at:
672: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
674: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
675: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
676: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 677: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
679: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
680: ZDnet</a>,
681: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 682: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
684: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
685: ZDnet Australia</a>,
686: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 687: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 688: </ul>
1.260 ian 689: <p>
1.279 deraadt 690:
1.260 ian 691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 692: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 693: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 694: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 695: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 696: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 697: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
698: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
699: without notice or justification.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 703: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 704: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 705: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 706: </strong></font><br>
707: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
708: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 709: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 710: effective today, without any warning..."
711: <p>
1.257 ian 712:
713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 714: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
715: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 716: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 717: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 718: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
719: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
720: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
721: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
722: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 723: <p>
724:
725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 726: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
727: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 728: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 729: </strong></font><br>
730: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
731: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
732: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
733: quoting two of them:
734: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
735: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
736: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
737: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
738: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
739: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
740: <p>
741:
1.255 ian 742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 743: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
744: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 745: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 746: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 747: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 748: <p>
749:
750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 751: [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 752: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 753: </strong></font><br>
754: New security concepts in OpenBSD
755: <p>
756:
757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 758: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
759: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 760: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 761: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 762: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 763: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
764: security experts for more than three decades."
765: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
766: <p>
1.261 ian 767:
1.254 drahn 768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 769: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 770: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 771: </strong></font><br>
772: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 776: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
777: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
778: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
779: </strong></font><br>
780: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
781: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
782: discussion OpenBSD's path.
783: <p>
784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 786: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
787: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 788: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 789: </strong></font><br>
790: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
791: from US DARPA.
792: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
793: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
794: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
795: the BSD license.
796: <p>
797: </ul>
798:
1.251 ian 799: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
800: <ul>
801:
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 803: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
804: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
805: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
806: </strong></font><br>
807:
808: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
809: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
810: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
811: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 815: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
816: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 817: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 818: </strong></font><br>
819: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
820: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
821: Mentions
822: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
823: and
824: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
825: programs.
826: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 827: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 828: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
829: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
830: <p>
1.325 ian 831: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
832: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
835: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
836: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
837: </strong></font><br>
838: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
839: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
840: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
841: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
842: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
843: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
844: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
845: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
846: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
847: put into service."
848: <p>
849: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
850: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
851: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
852: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
853: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
854: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
855: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
856: computers with security features."
857: <p>
1.329 ian 858:
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
860: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
861: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
862: Slate,
863: March 3, 2003.
864: </strong></font><br>
865: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
866: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
867: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
868: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
869: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
870: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
871: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
872: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
873: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
874: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
875: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
876: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
877: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
878: of more secure open-source solutions like
879: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
880: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
881: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
882: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
883: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
884: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
885: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
886: the Beltway."
887: <p>
1.251 ian 888: </ul>
889:
1.249 jufi 890: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
891: <ul>
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
893: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
894: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 895: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 896: </strong></font><br>
897: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
898: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 899: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 900: <p>
1.334 ian 901:
902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
903: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
904: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
905: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
906: </strong></font><br>
907: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
908: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
909: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
910: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
911: "... the hypothetical question ...
912: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
913: <br>
914: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
915: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
916: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
917: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
918: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
919: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 920: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 921: support network security.
922: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
923: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
924: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
925: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
926: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
927: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
928: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
929: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
930: <br>
931: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
932: <p>
933:
1.249 jufi 934: </ul>
935:
1.246 jufi 936: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 937: <ul>
1.246 jufi 938:
1.247 jufi 939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 940: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 941: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
942: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 943: </strong></font><br>
944: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
945: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
946: <p>
947:
1.247 jufi 948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 949: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
950: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
951: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
952: </strong></font><br>
953: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
954: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 958: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 959: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
960: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 961: </strong></font><br>
962: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
963: in their annual OpenHack security test.
964: <p>
1.247 jufi 965: </ul>
1.246 jufi 966:
1.244 jufi 967: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 968: <ul>
1.246 jufi 969:
1.247 jufi 970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 971: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
972: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
973: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 974: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 975: </strong></font><br>
976: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
977: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
978: md5 digests.
979: <p>
980:
1.247 jufi 981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 982: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 983: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
984: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 985: </strong></font><br>
986: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
987: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
988: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
989: right the first time."
990: <p>
1.247 jufi 991: </ul>
1.244 jufi 992:
993:
994: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 995: <ul>
1.244 jufi 996:
1.247 jufi 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 998: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 999: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1000: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1001: </strong></font><br>
1002: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1003: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1004: part 6</a>.
1005: <p>
1006:
1.247 jufi 1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1008: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1009: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1010: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1013: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1014: <p>
1.301 jose 1015:
1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1017: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1018: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1019: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1020: </strong></font><br>
1021:
1022: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1023: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1024: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1025: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1026: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1027: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1028: <i>Here's the
1029: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1030: <p>
1.247 jufi 1031: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1032:
1033: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1034: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1035:
1.247 jufi 1036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1037: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1038: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1039: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1040: </strong></font><br>
1041: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1042: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1043: <p>
1044:
1.247 jufi 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1046: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1047: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1048: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1049: </strong></font><br>
1050: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1051: this time using pf.
1052: <p>
1.247 jufi 1053: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1054:
1055: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1056: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1057:
1.247 jufi 1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1059: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1060: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1061: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1062: </strong></font><br>
1063: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1064: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1065: their rotation.
1066: <p>
1067:
1.247 jufi 1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1069: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1070: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1071: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1072: </strong></font><br>
1073: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1074: <p>
1.247 jufi 1075: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1076:
1.239 jufi 1077: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1078: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1079:
1.247 jufi 1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1081: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1082: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1083: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1084: </strong></font><br>
1085: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1086: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1087: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.247 jufi 1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1091: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1092: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1093: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1094: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1095: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1096: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1097: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1098: <p>
1.247 jufi 1099: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1100:
1.235 lebel 1101: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1102: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1103:
1.239 jufi 1104:
1.247 jufi 1105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1106: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1107: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1108: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1109: </strong></font><br>
1110: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1111: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1112: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1113: <p>
1.301 jose 1114:
1.247 jufi 1115: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1116:
1.228 horacio 1117: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1118: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1119:
1.247 jufi 1120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1121: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1122: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1123: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1126: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1130: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1131: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1132: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1133: </strong></font><br>
1134: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1135: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1136: <p>
1137:
1.247 jufi 1138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1139: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1140: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1141: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1142: </strong></font><br>
1143: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1144: on the desktop of his parents.
1145: <p>
1146:
1.247 jufi 1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1148: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1149: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1150: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1151: </strong></font><br>
1152: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1153: using IPFilter.
1154:
1155: <p>
1156:
1.247 jufi 1157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1158: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1159: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1160: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1161: </strong></font><br>
1162: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1163: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1164: perspectives of the four OS.
1165: <br>
1166: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1167: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1168: <p>
1169:
1.247 jufi 1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1171: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1172: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1173: software and security</a>,
1174: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1175: </strong></font><br>
1176:
1177: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1178: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1179: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1180: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1181: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1182: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1183: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1184: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1185: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1186: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1187: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1188: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1189: <p>
1.247 jufi 1190: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1191:
1.225 horacio 1192: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1193: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1194:
1.247 jufi 1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1196: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1197: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1198: Interview</a>,
1199: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1200: </strong></font><br>
1201:
1202: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1203: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1204: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1205: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1206: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1207: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1208: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1209: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1210: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1211: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1212: of choice.
1213: <p>
1.247 jufi 1214: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1215:
1216: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1217: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1218:
1.247 jufi 1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1220: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1221: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1222: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1223: </strong></font><br>
1224:
1225: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1226: <p>
1227:
1.247 jufi 1228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1229: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1230: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1231: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1232: </strong></font><br>
1233:
1234: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1235: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1236: <p>
1.247 jufi 1237: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1238:
1.218 horacio 1239: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1240: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1241:
1.247 jufi 1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1243: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1244: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1245: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1246: </strong></font><br>
1247:
1248: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1249: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1250: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1251: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1252: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1253: subjects. Worth a read.
1254: <p>
1255:
1256:
1.247 jufi 1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1258: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1259: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1260: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1261: </strong></font><br>
1262:
1263: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1264: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1265: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1266: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1267: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1268: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1269: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1270: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1271: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1272: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1273: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1274: on other operating systems.<br>
1275: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1276: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1277: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1278: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1282: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1283: Operating System 2010</a>,
1284: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286:
1287: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1288: covering the level of software integration into the core
1289: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1290: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1291: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1292: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1293: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1294: <p>
1295:
1.247 jufi 1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1297: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1298: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1299: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1300: </strong></font><br>
1301:
1302: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1303: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1304: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1305: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1306: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1307: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1308: <p>
1.247 jufi 1309: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1310:
1.210 jufi 1311: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1312: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1313:
1.247 jufi 1314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1315: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1316: Already a Contender</a>,
1317: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1318: </strong></font><br>
1319:
1320: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1321: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1322: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1323: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1324: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1325: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1326: <p>
1327:
1.247 jufi 1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1329: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1330: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1331: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1332: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1333:
1.224 horacio 1334: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1335: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1336: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1337: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1338: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1339: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1340: <p>
1.247 jufi 1341: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1342:
1343: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1344: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1345:
1.247 jufi 1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1347: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1348: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1349: Division</a>,
1350: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1351: </strong></font><br>
1352:
1353: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1354: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1355: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1356: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1357: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1358: investment</em>.<br>
1359: The implementation details can be seen on their
1360: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1361: <p>
1362:
1.247 jufi 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1364: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1365: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1366: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1367: </strong></font><br>
1368:
1369: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1370: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1371: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1372: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1373: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1374: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1375: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1376: <p>
1377:
1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1379: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1380: Thinking about Security</a>,
1381: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1382: </strong></font><br>
1383:
1384: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1385: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1386: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1387: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1388: to time.<br>
1389: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1390: system and just the most secure system.
1391: <p>
1392:
1.247 jufi 1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1394: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1395: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1396: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1397: </strong></font><br>
1398:
1399: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1400: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1401: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1402: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1403: choice:<br>
1404: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1405: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1406: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1407: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1408: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1409: network security devices and as such must be well
1410: armored."</em><br>
1411: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1412: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1413: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1414: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1415: <br>
1416: Bravo!
1417: <p>
1.247 jufi 1418: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1419:
1.207 ian 1420: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1421: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1422:
1.247 jufi 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1424: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1425: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1426: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1427:
1.207 ian 1428: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1429: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1430: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1431: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1432: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1433: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1434: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1435: <p>
1.247 jufi 1436: </ul>
1.207 ian 1437:
1.194 jufi 1438: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1439: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1440:
1.247 jufi 1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1442: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1443: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1444: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1445: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1446:
1.240 miod 1447: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1448: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1449: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1450: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1451: <p>
1452:
1.247 jufi 1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1454: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1455: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1456: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1457:
1458: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1459: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1460: <p>
1461:
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1463: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1464: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1465: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1466:
1467: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1468: <p>
1469:
1470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1471: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1472: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1473: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1474: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1475:
1.240 miod 1476: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1477: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1478: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1479: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1480: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1481: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1482: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1483: <br>
1484: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1485: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1486: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1487: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1488: <p>
1489:
1.247 jufi 1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1491: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1492: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1493: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1494: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1495:
1.194 jufi 1496: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1497: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1498: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1499: <br>
1500: The new
1501: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1502: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1503: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1504: <p>
1.247 jufi 1505: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1506:
1.190 horacio 1507: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1508: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1509:
1.247 jufi 1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1511:
1512: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1513: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1514:
1.301 jose 1515:
1.191 jufi 1516: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1517: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1518:
1519: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1520: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1521:
1.212 horacio 1522: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1523: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1524: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1525:
1.211 horacio 1526: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1527: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1528: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1529:
1.247 jufi 1530: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1531: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1532:
1.247 jufi 1533: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1534: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1535:
1.212 horacio 1536: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1537: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1538: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1539:
1540: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1541: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1542:
1543: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1544: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1545:
1.301 jose 1546: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1547: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1548:
1.191 jufi 1549: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1550: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1551:
1552: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1553: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1554:
1.192 jufi 1555: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1556: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1557: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1558:
1.193 deraadt 1559: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1560: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1561: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1562:
1.247 jufi 1563: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1564: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1565:
1.247 jufi 1566: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1567: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1568: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1569:
1.213 horacio 1570: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1571: 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 1572: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1573:
1.190 horacio 1574: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1575: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1576: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1577: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1578: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1579: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1580: <p>
1.190 horacio 1581:
1.247 jufi 1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1583: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1584: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1585: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1587:
1.195 jufi 1588: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1589: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1590: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1591: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1592: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1593: <p>
1594:
1.247 jufi 1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1596: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1597: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1598: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1599: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1600:
1.191 jufi 1601: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1603: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1604: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1605: <p>
1606:
1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1608: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1609: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1610: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1611:
1612: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1613: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1614: <p>
1.247 jufi 1615: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1616:
1.191 jufi 1617:
1.186 jufi 1618: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1619: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1620:
1.247 jufi 1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1622: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1623: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1624: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1625: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1626:
1.188 jufi 1627: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1628: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1629: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1630: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1631: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1632: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1633: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1634: <p>
1635:
1.301 jose 1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1637: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1638: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1639: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1640:
1641: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1642: <p>
1.191 jufi 1643:
1.247 jufi 1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1645: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1646: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1647: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1648: </strong></font><br>
1649:
1650: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1651: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1652: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1653: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1654: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1655: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1656: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1657: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1658: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1659: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1660: familiar?
1661: <p>
1.247 jufi 1662: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1663:
1.178 louis 1664: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1665: <ul>
1.178 louis 1666:
1.247 jufi 1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1668: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1669: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1670: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1671: </strong></font><br>
1672:
1673: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1674: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1675: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1676: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1677: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1678: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1679: <p>
1680:
1.247 jufi 1681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1682: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1683: Open source under the hood</a>,
1684: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1685: </strong></font><br>
1686:
1687: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1688: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1689: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1690: <p>
1691:
1.247 jufi 1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1693: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1694: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1695: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1696: </strong></font><br>
1697:
1698: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1699: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1700: <p>
1.247 jufi 1701: </ul>
1.179 louis 1702:
1.174 louis 1703:
1.175 louis 1704: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1705: <ul>
1.175 louis 1706:
1.247 jufi 1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1708: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1709: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1710: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1711: </strong></font><br>
1712:
1713: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1714: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1715: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1716: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1717: <p>
1718:
1.247 jufi 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1720: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1721: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1722: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1723: </strong></font><br>
1724:
1725: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1726: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1727: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1728: <p>
1.247 jufi 1729: </ul>
1.175 louis 1730:
1.176 louis 1731:
1.172 mickey 1732: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1733: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1734:
1.247 jufi 1735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1736: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1737: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1738: </strong></font><br>
1739:
1740: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1741: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1742: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1743: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1744: <p>
1745:
1.247 jufi 1746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1747: <a
1.269 deraadt 1748: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1749: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1750: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1751: </strong></font><br>
1752:
1753: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1754: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1755: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1756: <p>
1757:
1.247 jufi 1758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1759: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1760: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1761: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1762: </strong></font><br>
1763:
1764: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1765: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1766: <p>
1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1769: <a
1.269 deraadt 1770: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1771: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1772: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1773: </strong></font><br>
1774:
1775: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1776: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1777: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1778: our own Theo de Raadt.
1779: <p>
1780:
1.247 jufi 1781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1782: <a
1.269 deraadt 1783: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1784: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1785: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1786: </strong></font><br>
1787:
1788: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1789: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1790: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1791: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1792: shut down.]
1793: <p>
1794:
1.247 jufi 1795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1796: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1797: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1798: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1799: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1800: </strong></font><br>
1801:
1802: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1803: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1804: <p>
1.247 jufi 1805: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1806:
1.161 louis 1807: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1808: <ul>
1.161 louis 1809:
1.247 jufi 1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1811: <a
1.269 deraadt 1812: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1813: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1814: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1815: </strong></font><br>
1816:
1817: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1818: by John Wolley
1819: <p>
1820:
1.247 jufi 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1822: <a
1.269 deraadt 1823: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1824: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1825: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1826: </strong></font><br>
1827:
1828: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1829: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1830: OpenBSD).
1831: <p>
1832:
1.247 jufi 1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1834: <a
1.247 jufi 1835: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1836: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1837: </strong></font><br>
1838:
1839: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1840: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1841: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1842: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1843: and hindsight.
1844: <p>
1845:
1.247 jufi 1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1847: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1848: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1849: </strong></font><br>
1850:
1851: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1852: <p>
1853:
1.247 jufi 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1855: <a
1.168 provos 1856: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1857: December 7, 2000
1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1861: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1862: us explain.
1863: <p>
1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1866: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1867: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1868: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1869: December 6, 2000
1870: </strong></font><br>
1871:
1872: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1873: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1874: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1875: <p>
1876:
1.247 jufi 1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1878: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1879: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1880: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1881: </strong></font><br>
1882:
1883: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1884: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1885: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1886: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1887: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1888: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1889: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1890: <p>
1891:
1892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1893: <a
1.226 horacio 1894: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1895: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1896: </strong></font><br>
1897:
1898: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1899: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1900: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1901: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1902: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1903: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1904: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1905: <p>
1.162 millert 1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1908: <a
1.161 louis 1909: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1910: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1911: </strong></font><br>
1912:
1913: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1914: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1918: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1919: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1920: </strong></font><br>
1921:
1922: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1923: <p>
1924:
1925:
1.247 jufi 1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1927: <a
1.226 horacio 1928: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1929: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1930: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1931: </strong></font><br>
1932:
1933: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1934: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1935: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1936: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1937: <p>
1.247 jufi 1938: </ul>
1.169 louis 1939:
1.158 louis 1940: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1941: <ul>
1.147 louis 1942:
1.247 jufi 1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1944: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1945: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1946: </strong></font><br>
1947:
1948: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1949: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1950: <p>
1951:
1.247 jufi 1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1953: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1954: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1955: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1956: </strong></font><br>
1957: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1958: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1959: <p>
1960:
1.247 jufi 1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1962: <a
1963: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1964: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1965: </strong></font><br>
1966:
1967: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1968: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1969: <p>
1970:
1.247 jufi 1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1972: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1973: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1974: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1975:
1.213 horacio 1976: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1977: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1978: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1979: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1980: <p>
1.215 horacio 1981:
1.247 jufi 1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1983: <a
1984: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1985: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1986: </strong></font><br>
1987:
1988: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1989: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1990: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1991: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1992: much of the attitude too).
1993: <p>
1.161 louis 1994:
1.247 jufi 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1996: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1997: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1998: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1999:
1.157 louis 2000: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2001: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2002: <p>
1.247 jufi 2003: </ul>
1.157 louis 2004:
2005: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2006: <ul>
1.157 louis 2007:
1.247 jufi 2008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2009: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2010: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2011: </strong></font><br>
2012:
2013: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2014: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2015: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2016: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2017: <p>
2018:
1.247 jufi 2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2020: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2021: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2022: </strong></font><br>
2023:
2024: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2025: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2026: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2027: it because they love coding...
2028: <p>
2029:
1.247 jufi 2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2031: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2032: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2033: </strong></font><br>
2034:
2035: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2036: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2037: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2038: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2039: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2040: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2041: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2042: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2043: <p>
2044:
1.247 jufi 2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2046: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2047: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2048: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2049: </strong></font><br>
2050:
2051: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2052: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2053: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2054: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2055: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2056: the pizza.
2057: <p>
2058:
1.247 jufi 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2060: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2061: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2062: </strong></font><br>
2063:
2064: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2065: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2066: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2067: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2068: problems.
2069: <p>
2070:
1.247 jufi 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2072: <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 2073: </strong></font><br>
2074:
1.222 miod 2075: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2076: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2077: - whether they like it or not.
2078: <p>
2079:
1.247 jufi 2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2081: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2082: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2083: </strong></font><br>
2084:
2085: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2086: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2087: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2088: <p>
1.148 aaron 2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2091: <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 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2095: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2096: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2097: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2098: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2099: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2100: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2101: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2102: <p>
2103:
1.247 jufi 2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2105: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2106: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2107: </strong></font><br>
2108:
2109: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2110: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2111: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2112: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2113: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2114: <p>
1.247 jufi 2115: </ul>
1.147 louis 2116:
1.138 louis 2117: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2118: <ul>
1.138 louis 2119:
1.247 jufi 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2121: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2122: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2123: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2124: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2125: </strong></font><br>
2126:
1.227 horacio 2127: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2128: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2129: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2130: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2131: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2132: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2133: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2134: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2135: <p>
2136:
1.247 jufi 2137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2138: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2139: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2140: </strong></font><br>
2141:
2142: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2143: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2144: groups, and even Linux.
2145: <p>
2146:
1.247 jufi 2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2148: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2149: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2150: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2151: </strong></font><br>
2152:
2153: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2154: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2155: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2156: library after installing the OS.
2157: <p>
2158:
1.247 jufi 2159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2160: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2161: Sys Admin, September 2000
2162: </strong></font><br>
2163:
2164: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2165: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2166: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2167: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2168: (<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>,
2169: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2170: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2171: <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 2172: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2173: out of the system.
2174: <p>
2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2177: <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
2178: </strong></font><br>
2179:
2180: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2181: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2182: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2183: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2184: the IP filtering and address translation.
2185: <p>
1.301 jose 2186:
2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2188: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2189: </strong></font><br>
2190:
2191: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2192: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2193: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2194: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2195: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2196: <p>
1.247 jufi 2197: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2198:
1.131 louis 2199: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2200: <ul>
1.131 louis 2201:
1.247 jufi 2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2203: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2204: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2205: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2206: </strong></font><br>
2207:
2208: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2209: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2210: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2211: <p>
2212:
1.247 jufi 2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2214: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2215: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2216: </strong></font><br>
2217:
2218: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2219: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2220: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2221: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2222: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2223: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2224: note of"</i>.
2225: <p>
2226:
1.247 jufi 2227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2228: <a
1.247 jufi 2229: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2230: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2231: </strong></font><br>
2232:
2233: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2234: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2235: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2236: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2237: <p>
2238:
1.247 jufi 2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2240: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2241: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2242: </strong></font><br>
2243:
2244: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2245: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2246: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2247: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2248: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2249: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2250: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2251: <p>
2252:
1.247 jufi 2253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2254: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2255: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2256: 2000
2257: </strong></font><br>
2258:
2259: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2260: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2261: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2262: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2263: against current industry practices.
2264: <p>
2265:
1.247 jufi 2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2267: <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
2268: </strong></font><br>
2269:
2270: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2271: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2272: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2273: <p>
2274:
1.247 jufi 2275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2276: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2277: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2278: </strong></font><br>
2279:
2280: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2281: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2282: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2283: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2284: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2285: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2286: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2287: <p>
2288:
1.247 jufi 2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2290: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2291: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2292: </strong></font><br>
2293:
2294: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2295: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2296: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2297: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2298: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2299: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2300: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2301: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2302: <p>
1.247 jufi 2303: </ul>
1.131 louis 2304:
1.118 louis 2305: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2306: <ul>
1.118 louis 2307:
1.247 jufi 2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2309: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2310: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2311: </strong></font><br>
2312:
2313: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2314: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2315: about time. The article mentions that
2316: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2317: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2318: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2319: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2320: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2321: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2322: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2323: <p>
2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2326: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2327: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2328: </strong></font><br>
2329:
2330: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2331: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2332: of OpenSSH.
2333: <p>
2334:
1.247 jufi 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2336: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2337: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2338: </strong></font><br>
2339:
2340: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2341: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2342: bridging.
2343: <p>
2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2346: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2347: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2348: </strong></font><br>
2349:
1.121 deraadt 2350: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2351: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2352: <p>
2353:
1.247 jufi 2354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2355: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2356: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2360: <p>
2361:
1.247 jufi 2362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2363: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2364: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2365: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2366: </strong></font><br>
2367:
1.120 deraadt 2368: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2369: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2370: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2371: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2372: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2373: <p>
2374:
1.247 jufi 2375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2376: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2377: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2378: </strong></font><br>
2379:
1.222 miod 2380: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2381: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2382: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2383: protocols and their quirks.
2384: <p>
2385:
1.247 jufi 2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2387: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2388: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2389: </strong></font><br>
2390:
2391: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2392: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2393: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2394: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2395: <p>
2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2398: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2399: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2400: </strong></font><br>
2401:
2402: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2403: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2404: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2405: <p>
2406:
1.247 jufi 2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2408: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2409: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2410: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2411: </strong></font><br>
2412:
2413: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2414: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2415: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2416: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2417: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2418: <p>
1.247 jufi 2419: </ul>
1.118 louis 2420:
1.104 louis 2421: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2422: <ul>
1.104 louis 2423:
1.247 jufi 2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2425: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2426: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
2429: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2430: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2431: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2432: be a bit dry.
2433: <p>
2434:
1.247 jufi 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2436: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2437: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2438: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2439: </strong></font><br>
2440: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2441: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2442: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2443: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2444: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2445: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2446: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2447: <p>
2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2450: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2451: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2452: 2000
1.128 louis 2453: </strong></font><br>
2454:
2455: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2456: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2457: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2458: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2459: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2460: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2461: <p>
2462:
1.247 jufi 2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2464: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2465: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2466: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2467:
2468: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2469: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2470: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2471: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2472: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2473: <p>
1.110 louis 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2476: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2477: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2478: </strong></font><br>
2479:
2480: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2481: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2482: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2483: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2484: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2485: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2486: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2487: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2488: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2489: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2490: <p>
2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2493: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2494: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2495:
2496: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2497: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2498: <p>
1.108 louis 2499:
1.247 jufi 2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2501: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2502: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2503: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2504:
2505: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2506: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2507: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2508: <p>
1.106 louis 2509:
1.247 jufi 2510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2511: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2512: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2513: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2514:
2515: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2516: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2517: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2518: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2519: <p>
1.107 louis 2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2522: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2523: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2524: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2525:
2526: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2527: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2528: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2529: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2530: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2531: <p>
1.105 louis 2532:
1.247 jufi 2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2534: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2535: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2536: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2537:
1.113 naddy 2538: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2539: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2540: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2541: <p>
1.104 louis 2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2544: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2545: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2549: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2550: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2551: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2552: <p>
1.301 jose 2553:
2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2555: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2556: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2557: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2558:
2559: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2560: hardware-supported cryptography.
2561: <p>
1.247 jufi 2562: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2563:
1.85 louis 2564: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2565: <ul>
1.85 louis 2566:
1.247 jufi 2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2568: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2569: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2570: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2571:
2572: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2573: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2574: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2575: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2576: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2577: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2578: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2579: <p>
1.99 louis 2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2582: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2583: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2584: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2585:
2586: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2587: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2588: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2589: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2590: <p>
1.100 louis 2591:
1.247 jufi 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2593: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2594: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2595: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2596:
2597: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2598: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2599: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2600: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2601: <p>
1.95 louis 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2604: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2605: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2606: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2607:
2608: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2609: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2610: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2611: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2612: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2613: <p>
1.92 louis 2614:
1.247 jufi 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2616: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2617: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2618: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2619:
2620: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2621: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2622: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2623: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2624: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2625: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2626: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2627: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2628: <p>
1.91 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2631: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2632: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2633: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2634:
2635: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2636: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2637: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2638: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2639: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2640: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2641: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2642: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2643: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2644: <p>
1.90 louis 2645:
1.247 jufi 2646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2647: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2648: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2649: </strong></font><br>
2650: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2651: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2652: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2653: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2654: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2655: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2656: <p>
2657:
1.247 jufi 2658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2659: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2660: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2661: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2662:
1.113 naddy 2663: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2664: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2665: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2666: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2667: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2668: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2669: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2670: <p>
1.87 louis 2671:
1.247 jufi 2672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2673: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2674: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2675: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2676:
2677: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2678: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2679: <p>
1.85 louis 2680:
1.247 jufi 2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2682: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2683: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2684: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2685:
2686: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2687: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2688: <p>
2689:
2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2691: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2692: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2693: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2694:
2695: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2696: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2697: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2698: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2699: <p>
1.89 louis 2700:
1.247 jufi 2701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2702: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2703: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2704: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2705:
2706: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2707: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2708: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2709: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2710: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2711: </ul>
1.85 louis 2712:
1.78 deraadt 2713: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2714: <ul>
1.74 louis 2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2717: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2718: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2719: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2720: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2721:
2722: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2723: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2724: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2725: <p>
1.83 louis 2726:
1.247 jufi 2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2728: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2729: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2730: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2731:
2732: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2733: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2734: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2735: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2736: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2737: <p>
1.93 louis 2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2740: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2741: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2742: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2743: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2744:
1.83 louis 2745: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2746: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2747: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2748: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2749: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2750: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2751: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2752: <p>
1.82 aaron 2753:
1.247 jufi 2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2755: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2756: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2757: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2758:
1.83 louis 2759: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2760: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2761: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2762: <p>
1.80 louis 2763:
1.247 jufi 2764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2765: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2766: Bad Press</a>,
2767: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2768: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2769:
2770: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2771: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2772: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2773: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2774: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2775: <p>
1.247 jufi 2776: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2777:
2778: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2779: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2780:
1.247 jufi 2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2782: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2783: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2784: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2785: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2786:
2787: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2788: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2789: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2790: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2791: <p>
1.74 louis 2792:
1.247 jufi 2793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2794: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2795: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2796: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2797:
1.219 horacio 2798: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2799: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2800: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2801: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2802: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2803: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2804: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2805: <p>
1.88 louis 2806:
1.247 jufi 2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2808: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2809: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2810: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2811:
2812: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2813: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2814: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2815: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2816: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2817: <p>
1.81 louis 2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2820: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2821: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2822: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2823:
2824: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2825: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2826: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2827: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2828: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2829: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2830: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2831: <p>
1.90 louis 2832:
1.247 jufi 2833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2834: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2835: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2836: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2837:
2838: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2839: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2840: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2841: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2842: <p>
1.247 jufi 2843: </ul>
1.71 louis 2844:
1.69 deraadt 2845: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2846: <ul>
1.70 louis 2847:
1.247 jufi 2848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2849: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2850: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2851: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2852:
2853: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2854: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2855: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2856: <p>
1.70 louis 2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2859: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2860: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2861: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2862:
2863: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2864: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2865: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2866: <p>
1.68 louis 2867:
1.247 jufi 2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2869: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2870: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2871: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2872: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2873:
1.111 jufi 2874: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2875: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2876: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2877: "secure by default" installation.
2878: <p>
1.64 louis 2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2881: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2882: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2883: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2884:
1.113 naddy 2885: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2886: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2887: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2888: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2889: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2890: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2891: <p>
1.66 louis 2892:
1.247 jufi 2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2894: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2895: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2896: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2897:
2898: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2899: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2900: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2901: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2902: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2903: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2904: <p>
1.83 louis 2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2907: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2908: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2909: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2910:
2911: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2912: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2913: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2914: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2915: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2916: <p>
1.64 louis 2917:
1.247 jufi 2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2919: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2920: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2921: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2922:
2923: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2924: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2925: <p>
1.301 jose 2926:
2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2928: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2929: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2930: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2931: </strong></font><br>
2932:
2933: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2934: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2935: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2936: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2937: Giving way to
2938: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2939: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2940: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2941: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2942: <p>
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.65 louis 2944:
1.69 deraadt 2945: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2946: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2947:
1.247 jufi 2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2949: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2950: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2951: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2952:
2953: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2954: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2955: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2956: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2957: <p>
1.88 louis 2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2960: <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 2961: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2962:
2963: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2964: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2965: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2966: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2967: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2968: <p>
1.60 louis 2969:
1.247 jufi 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2971: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2972: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2973: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2974: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2975:
2976: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2977: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2978: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2979: <p>
1.58 louis 2980:
1.247 jufi 2981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2982: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2983: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2984:
2985: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2986: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2987: <p>
1.53 louis 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2990: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2991: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2992: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2993:
2994: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2995: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2996: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2997: <p>
1.99 louis 2998:
1.247 jufi 2999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3000: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3001: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3002:
3003: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3004: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3005: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3006: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3007: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3008:
1.247 jufi 3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3010: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3011: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3012: </strong></font><br>
3013:
3014: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3015: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3016: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3017: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3018: <p>
3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3021: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3022: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3023: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3024:
3025: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3026: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3027: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3028:
1.247 jufi 3029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3030: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3031: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3032:
3033: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3034: in
1.247 jufi 3035: <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 3036: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3037: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3038: <p>
1.53 louis 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3041: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3042: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3043: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3044: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3045:
1.58 louis 3046: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3047: <p>
1.301 jose 3048:
3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3050: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3051: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3052: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3053: Informacyjny, January 2000
3054: </strong></font><br>
3055:
3056: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3057: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3058: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3059: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3060: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3061: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3062: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3063: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3064: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3065: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3066: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3067: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3068: <p>
3069:
3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3071: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3072: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3076: <p>
3077: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3078:
1.69 deraadt 3079: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3080: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3083: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3084: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3085: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3087:
1.58 louis 3088: Kurt Seifried
3089: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3090: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3091: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3092: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3095: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3096: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3097: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3098:
3099: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3100: <p>
1.96 louis 3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3103: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3104: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3105: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3106: </strong></font><br>
3107:
3108: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3109: <p>
3110:
3111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3112: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3113: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3114: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3115:
3116: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3117: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3118: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3119: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3120: <p>
1.247 jufi 3121: </ul>
1.86 louis 3122:
1.69 deraadt 3123: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3124: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3127: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3128: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3129: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3130:
3131: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3132: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3133: <p>
1.61 louis 3134:
1.247 jufi 3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3136: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3137: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3138: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3139: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3140:
3141: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3142: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3143: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3144: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3145: right -- or at least strives to".
3146: <p>
1.48 louis 3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3149: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3150: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3151: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3152: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3153: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3154: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3155: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3156: <p>
1.61 louis 3157:
1.247 jufi 3158: <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 3159: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3160: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3161:
3162: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3163: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3164: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3165: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3166: <p>
1.46 louis 3167:
1.247 jufi 3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3169: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3170: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3171: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3172:
3173: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3174: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3175: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3176:
1.247 jufi 3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3178: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3179: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3180: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3181:
3182: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3183: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3184: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3185: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3186: <p>
1.247 jufi 3187: </ul>
1.70 louis 3188:
1.69 deraadt 3189: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3190: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3193: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3194: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3195: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3196: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3197:
3198: Kurt Seifried
3199: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3200: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3201: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3202: <p>
1.44 philen 3203:
1.247 jufi 3204: <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 3205: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3206: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3207:
3208: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3209: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3210:
1.247 jufi 3211: <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 3212: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3213: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3214:
3215: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3216: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3217:
1.247 jufi 3218: <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 3219: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3221:
3222: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3223: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3224: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3225: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3226: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3227:
1.247 jufi 3228: <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 3229: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3230: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3231:
1.36 louis 3232: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3233: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3234:
1.247 jufi 3235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3236: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3237: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3238: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3239:
3240: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3241: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3242: </ul>
1.38 louis 3243:
1.69 deraadt 3244: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3245: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <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 3248: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3249: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3250:
3251: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3252: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3253: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3254:
1.113 naddy 3255: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3256: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3257: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3258: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3259:
3260: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3261: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3262: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3263: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3264: <blockquote>
3265: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3266: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3267: <br>
3268: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3269: </code>
3270: </blockquote>
3271: <p>
3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3274: <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 3275: <p>
3276:
3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3278: <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 3279: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3280:
3281: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3282: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3283: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3284: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3285:
1.247 jufi 3286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3287: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3288: Sept. 28, 1999
3289: </strong></font><br>
3290:
3291: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3292: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3293: translating and reprinting articles from
3294: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3295: <p>
3296:
3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3298: <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 3299: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3300:
3301: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3302: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3303: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3304: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3305: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3306: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3307: <p>
1.19 louis 3308:
1.113 naddy 3309: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3310: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3311: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3312:
3313: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3314: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3315: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3316: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3317: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3318: <p>
1.16 louis 3319:
1.247 jufi 3320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3321: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3322: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3323: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3324:
1.57 louis 3325: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3326: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3327: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3328: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3329:
1.247 jufi 3330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3331: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3332: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3333: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3334:
1.113 naddy 3335: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3336:
1.247 jufi 3337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3338: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3339: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3340: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3341:
1.23 louis 3342: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3343: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3344: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3345: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3346: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3347: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3348:
1.247 jufi 3349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3350: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3351: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3352: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3353:
1.199 pvalchev 3354: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3355: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3356: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3357: installation.
1.113 naddy 3358: <p>
1.47 louis 3359:
1.247 jufi 3360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3361: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3362: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3363: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3364:
1.301 jose 3365: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3366: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3367: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3368: </ul>
1.57 louis 3369:
1.69 deraadt 3370: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3371: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3374: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3375: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3376: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3377:
3378: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3379: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3380: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3381: <p>
1.12 louis 3382:
1.247 jufi 3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3384: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3385: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3386: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3387:
3388: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3389: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3390: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3391: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3392: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3393: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3394: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3395: <p>
1.247 jufi 3396: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3397:
1.69 deraadt 3398: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3399: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3400:
1.247 jufi 3401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3402: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3403: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3404:
3405: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3406: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3407: available."
1.113 naddy 3408: <p>
1.301 jose 3409:
3410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3411: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3412: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3413: </strong></font><br>
3414:
3415: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3416: <p>
1.247 jufi 3417: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3418:
1.69 deraadt 3419: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3420: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3421:
1.247 jufi 3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3423: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3424: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3425:
3426: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3427: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3428: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3429: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3430: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3431: <p>
1.33 louis 3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3434: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3435: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3436: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3437:
1.113 naddy 3438: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3439: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3440: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3441: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3442: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3443: <p>
1.247 jufi 3444: </ul>
1.57 louis 3445:
1.69 deraadt 3446: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3447: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3448:
1.247 jufi 3449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3450: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3451: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3452: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3453:
3454: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3455: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3456: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3457:
1.247 jufi 3458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3459: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3460: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3461: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3462: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3463:
3464: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3465: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3466:
1.247 jufi 3467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3468: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3469:
1.113 naddy 3470: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3473: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3474: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3475: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3476:
3477: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3478: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3479: </ul>
1.23 louis 3480:
1.69 deraadt 3481: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3482: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3483:
1.247 jufi 3484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3485: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3486: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3487:
3488: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3489: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3490: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3491:
1.247 jufi 3492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3493: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3494: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3495: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3496:
3497: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3498: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3499: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3500: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3501: </ul>
1.57 louis 3502:
1.69 deraadt 3503: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3504: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3505:
1.247 jufi 3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3507: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3508: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3509: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3510:
3511: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3512: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3513: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3514: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3515: <p>
1.15 louis 3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3518: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3519: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3520: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3521:
3522: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3523: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3524: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3525: columns."
1.113 naddy 3526: <p>
1.247 jufi 3527: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3528:
1.69 deraadt 3529: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3530: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3533: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3534: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3535: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3536:
3537: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3538: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3539:
1.113 naddy 3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3541: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3542: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3543:
3544: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3545: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3546: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3547: </ul>
1.57 louis 3548:
1.69 deraadt 3549: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3550: <ul>
1.301 jose 3551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3552: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3553: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3554: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3555:
3556: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3557: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3558: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3559: <p>
3560:
3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3562: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3563: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3564: Nov 13, 1998 and
3565: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3566: Datateknik</a>,
3567: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3568:
3569: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3570: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3571: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3572: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3573: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3574:
1.113 naddy 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3576: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3577: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3578: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3579:
1.222 miod 3580: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3581: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3582: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3583: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3584: <p>
1.247 jufi 3585: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3586:
1.69 deraadt 3587: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3588: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3589:
1.247 jufi 3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3591: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3592: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3593:
1.69 deraadt 3594: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3595: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3596: <p>
1.247 jufi 3597: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3598:
1.69 deraadt 3599: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3600: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3603: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3604: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3605: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3606:
3607: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3608: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3609: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3612: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3613: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3614: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3615: <p>
1.247 jufi 3616: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3617:
1.69 deraadt 3618: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3619: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3620:
1.247 jufi 3621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3622: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3623: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3624: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3625: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3626: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3627:
3628: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3629: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3630: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3631: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3632: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3633: <p>
1.247 jufi 3634: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3635:
3636: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3637: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3640: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3641: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3642:
1.69 deraadt 3643: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3644: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3645: <p>
1.112 naddy 3646:
1.247 jufi 3647: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3648: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3649:
1.292 camield 3650: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3651: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3652: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.352 ! ian 3653: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.351 2003/05/17 19:21:56 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3654:
3655: </body>
3656: </html>
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