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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>
1.355 ! jose 23: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
! 24: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
! 25: Page 58, eWeek,
! 26: June 2, 2003.
! 27: </strong></font><br>
! 28: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
! 29: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
! 30: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
! 31: been addressed in -current.
! 32: <p>
! 33:
! 34: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 35: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
36: Beyond Linux</a>,
37: InfoWorld,
38: May 23, 2003.
39: </strong></font><br>
40: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
41: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
42: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
43: compared to the GPL.
44: <p>
45:
46: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 47: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
48: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
49: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 50: May 17, 2003.
51: </strong></font><br>
52: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
53: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
54: the business section and half of another page inside
55: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
56: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
57: in talking about the project's history and goals.
58: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
59: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
60: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
61: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 62: <br>
63: This article can also be found online at:
64: <ul>
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
66: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
67: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
68: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
69: May 17, 2003
70: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 71: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
73: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
74: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
75: Montreal Gazette,
76: May 21, 2003
77: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 78: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 79: <p>
1.346 ian 80:
81: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 82: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 83: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 84: May 7, 2003.
85: </strong></font><br>
86: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
87: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
88: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 92: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
93: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
94: OsOpinion,
95: May 6, 2003.
96: </strong></font><br>
97: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
98: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
99: <br>
100: This article can also be found online at:
101: <ul>
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
103: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
104: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
105: NewsFactor Network.
106: </strong></font>
107: </ul>
108: <p>
109:
110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 111: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 112: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
113: ITBusiness,
114: May 2, 2003.
115: </strong></font><br>
116: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
117: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
118: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
119: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 123: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
124: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
125: InfoWorld,
126: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 127: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 128: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
129: <br>
130: This article can also be found online at:
131: <ul>
132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
133: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
134: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
135: IDG Singapore.
136: </strong></font>
137: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 138: <p>
139:
1.339 jose 140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
141: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
142: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 143: ZDNet,
144: May 1, 2003.
145: </strong></font><br>
146: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 147: someone using parts from previous articles.
148: <br>
1.341 deraadt 149: This article can also be found online at:
150: <ul>
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
152: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
153: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
154: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 155: </strong></font>
156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
157: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
158: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
159: CNET News.com.
160: </strong></font>
161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
162: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
163: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
164: ZDNet UK.
165: </strong></font>
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
167: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
168: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
169: Help Net Security, Croatia.
170: </strong></font>
171: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 172: <p>
1.339 jose 173:
1.341 deraadt 174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 175: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 176: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
177: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
178: May 1, 2003.
179: </strong></font><br>
180: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
181: that have been added
182: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
183: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
184: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 185: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 186: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
187: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
188: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 189: <p>
190:
191: </ul>
192:
1.253 ian 193: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
194: <ul>
1.255 ian 195:
1.260 ian 196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 197: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 198: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
199: TechRepublic,
200: April 28, 2003.
201: </strong></font><br>
202: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
203: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 204: work.<br>
205: Can also be found online at:
206: <ul>
207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
208: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
209: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
210: ZDNet UK.
211: </strong></font>
212: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 213: <p>
214:
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 216: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
217: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
218: IDG,
219: April 24, 2003.
220: </strong></font><br>
221: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
222: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
223: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
224: Can also be found online at:
225: <ul>
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
227: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
228: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 229: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 230: </strong></font>
231: </ul>
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
235: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 236: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 237: Slate,
238: April 24, 2003.
239: </strong></font><br>
240: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
241: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
242: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
243: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
244: <p>
245:
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 247: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
248: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
249: April 24, 2003.
250: </strong></font><br>
251: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
252: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
253: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
254: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 258: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
259: April 24, 2003.
260: </strong></font><br>
261: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
262: the free software community".
263: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
264: other articles.
265: <p>
266:
267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 268: <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>,
1.324 ian 269: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
270: </strong></font><br>
271: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
272: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
273: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
274: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
275: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
276: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
277: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
278: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
279: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
280: <br/>
281: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
282: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
283: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
284: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 285: <br>
286: Can also be found online at:
287: <ul>
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
289: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
290: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
291: Common Dreams NewsCenter
292: </strong></font>
293: </ul>
1.324 ian 294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
297: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
298: Wired, April 24, 2003.
299: </strong></font><br>
300: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
301: article above.
302: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
303: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
304: wasting them."
1.332 ian 305: <br>
306: Can also be found online at:
307: <ul>
308: <li>
309: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
310: </strong></font>
311: </ul>
1.324 ian 312: <p>
313:
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 315: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
316: </strong></font><br>
317: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 321: <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.
322: </strong></font><br>
323: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
324: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 328: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
329: April 23, 2003.
330: </strong></font><br>
331: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
332: <p>
333:
334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 335: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 336: April 22, 2003.
337: </strong></font><br>
338: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
339: <p>
340:
341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 342: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
343: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
344: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 345: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 346: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
347: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
348: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
349: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
350: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
351: Can also be found online at:
352: <ul>
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
354: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 355: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
356: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 357: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
359: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 360: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
361: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 362: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 363: </ul>
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 367: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
368: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 369: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 370: </strong></font><br>
371: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 372: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
373: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
374: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
375: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
376: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
377: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 381: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
382: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 383: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
384: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 385: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
386: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
387: at UPenn and DARPA.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 391: [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
392: April 18, 2003.
393: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 394: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 395: <p>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 398: [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 399: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 400: </strong></font><br>
401: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 405: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
406: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
407: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 408: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 409: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
410: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
411: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
412: <p>
413:
414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 415: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
416: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 417: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 418: </strong></font><br>
419: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
420: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
421: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 422: American century.
1.267 deraadt 423: <p>
424:
425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 426: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
427: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 428: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 429: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 430: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
431: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
432: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
433: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
434: Can also be found online at:
435: <ul>
436: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
437: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 438: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 439: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 440: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 441: <p>
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">
1.262 beck 445: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 446: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 447: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 448: </strong></font><br>
449: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 450: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
451: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
452: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
453: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
456: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
457: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
458: New York Times.
459: </strong></font>(free registration required)
460:
1.273 deraadt 461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 463: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 464: ABC News.
465: </strong></font>
466:
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 468: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 469: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 470: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 471: </strong></font>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 474: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 475: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 476: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 477: </strong></font>
478:
479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 480: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
481: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 482: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 483: </strong></font>
484:
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 486: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 487: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 488: Times Daily, AL.
489: </strong></font>
490:
491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
492: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
493: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
494: Boston.com, MA.
495: </strong></font>
496:
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 498: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 499: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 500: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
501: </strong></font>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 504: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
505: [Article was pulled]</a>
506: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 507: </strong></font>
508:
509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
510: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
511: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
512: Infoshop News.
513: </strong></font>
514:
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
516: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
517: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
518: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
519: </strong></font>
520:
521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 522: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
523: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
524: Raleigh News, NC.
525: </strong></font>
526:
527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 528: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 529: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
530: Napa News, CA.
531: </strong></font>
532:
533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 534: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 535: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
536: NEPA News, PA.
537: </strong></font>
538:
539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
540: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
541: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
542: Wired News.
543: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 544: <br>
545: <li>
1.333 deraadt 546: <font color="#009000"><strong>
547: [JAPANESE]
548: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
549: Wired News Japan</a>
550: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 551:
1.271 deraadt 552: </ul>
553: <p>
1.272 deraadt 554: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
555: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 556: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
557: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
558: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
559: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
560: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
561: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 562: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 563: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
564: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
565: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 566: <p>
567: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 568:
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 570: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 571: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
572: Indianapolis Star, IN.
573: </strong></font>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 576: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
577: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
578: Miami Herald, FL.
579: </strong></font>
580:
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 582: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 583: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
584: </strong></font>
585:
586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
587: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 588: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 589: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 590: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 591:
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
593: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
594: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
595: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
596: ABC News.
597: </strong></font>
598:
1.276 deraadt 599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
600: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 601: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 602: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 603: </strong></font>
604:
1.286 dhartmei 605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 606: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 607: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
608: Wilmington Star, NC.
609: </strong></font>
610:
1.300 jose 611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
612: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
613: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
614: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
615: </strong></font>
616:
1.309 jose 617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
618: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
619: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
620: Globe Technology.
621: </strong></font>
622:
1.263 deraadt 623: </ul>
1.262 beck 624: <p>
625:
626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 627: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
628: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 629: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 630: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 631: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 632: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
633: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
634: <p>
635:
636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 637: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
638: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
639: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 640: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 641: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
642: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
643: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
644: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
645: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
646: and simply restates other press reports.
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 650: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
651: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
652: OS News, April 18, 2003.
653: </strong></font><br>
654: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
655: <p>
656:
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 658: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
659: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 660: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 661: </strong></font><br>
662: Another report on the DARPA funding.
663: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
664: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
665: <p>
666:
667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 668: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
669: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
670: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
671: April 17, 2003.
672: </strong></font><br>
673: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
674: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
675: Tech Anthems</a>
676: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
677: 4 so far.
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 681: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
682: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 683: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 684: </strong></font><br>
685: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
686: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
687: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
688: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
689: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
690: Goes on to say:
691: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
692: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
693: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
694: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 695: This article is also found online at:
696: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
698: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
699: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
700: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 701: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
703: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
704: ZDnet</a>,
705: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 706: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
708: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
709: ZDnet Australia</a>,
710: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 711: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 712: </ul>
1.260 ian 713: <p>
1.279 deraadt 714:
1.260 ian 715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 716: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 717: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 718: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 719: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 720: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 721: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
722: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
723: without notice or justification.
724: <p>
725:
726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 727: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 728: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 729: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 730: </strong></font><br>
731: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
732: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 733: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 734: effective today, without any warning..."
735: <p>
1.257 ian 736:
737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 738: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
739: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 740: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 741: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 742: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
743: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
744: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
745: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
746: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 747: <p>
748:
749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 750: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
751: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 752: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 753: </strong></font><br>
754: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
755: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
756: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
757: quoting two of them:
758: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
759: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
760: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
761: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
762: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
763: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
764: <p>
765:
1.255 ian 766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 767: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
768: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 769: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 770: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 771: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 775: [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 776: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 777: </strong></font><br>
778: New security concepts in OpenBSD
779: <p>
780:
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 782: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
783: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 784: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 785: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 786: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 787: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
788: security experts for more than three decades."
789: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
790: <p>
1.261 ian 791:
1.254 drahn 792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 793: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 794: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 795: </strong></font><br>
796: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 800: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
801: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
802: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
803: </strong></font><br>
804: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
805: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
806: discussion OpenBSD's path.
807: <p>
808:
809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 810: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
811: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 812: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 813: </strong></font><br>
814: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
815: from US DARPA.
816: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
817: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
818: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
819: the BSD license.
820: <p>
821: </ul>
822:
1.251 ian 823: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
824: <ul>
825:
826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 827: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
828: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
829: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
830: </strong></font><br>
831:
832: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
833: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
834: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
835: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
836: <p>
837:
838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 839: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
840: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 841: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 842: </strong></font><br>
843: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
844: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
845: Mentions
846: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
847: and
848: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
849: programs.
850: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 851: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 852: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
853: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
854: <p>
1.325 ian 855: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
856: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 857:
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
859: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
860: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
861: </strong></font><br>
862: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
863: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
864: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
865: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
866: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
867: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
868: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
869: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
870: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
871: put into service."
872: <p>
873: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
874: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
875: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
876: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
877: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
878: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
879: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
880: computers with security features."
881: <p>
1.329 ian 882:
883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
884: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
885: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
886: Slate,
887: March 3, 2003.
888: </strong></font><br>
889: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
890: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
891: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
892: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
893: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
894: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
895: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
896: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
897: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
898: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
899: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
900: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
901: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
902: of more secure open-source solutions like
903: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
904: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
905: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
906: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
907: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
908: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
909: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
910: the Beltway."
911: <p>
1.251 ian 912: </ul>
913:
1.249 jufi 914: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
915: <ul>
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
917: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
918: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 919: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 920: </strong></font><br>
921: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
922: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 923: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 924: <p>
1.334 ian 925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
927: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
928: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
929: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
930: </strong></font><br>
931: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
932: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
933: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
934: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
935: "... the hypothetical question ...
936: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
937: <br>
938: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
939: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
940: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
941: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
942: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
943: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 944: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 945: support network security.
946: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
947: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
948: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
949: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
950: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
951: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
952: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
953: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
954: <br>
955: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
956: <p>
957:
1.249 jufi 958: </ul>
959:
1.246 jufi 960: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 961: <ul>
1.246 jufi 962:
1.247 jufi 963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 964: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 965: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
966: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 967: </strong></font><br>
968: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
969: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
970: <p>
971:
1.247 jufi 972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 973: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
974: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
975: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
976: </strong></font><br>
977: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
978: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
979: <p>
980:
981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 982: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 983: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
984: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 985: </strong></font><br>
986: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
987: in their annual OpenHack security test.
988: <p>
1.247 jufi 989: </ul>
1.246 jufi 990:
1.244 jufi 991: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 992: <ul>
1.246 jufi 993:
1.247 jufi 994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 995: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
996: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
997: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 998: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 999: </strong></font><br>
1000: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1001: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1002: md5 digests.
1003: <p>
1004:
1.247 jufi 1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1006: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1007: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1008: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1009: </strong></font><br>
1010: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1011: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1012: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1013: right the first time."
1014: <p>
1.247 jufi 1015: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1016:
1017:
1018: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1019: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1020:
1.247 jufi 1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1022: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1023: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1024: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1025: </strong></font><br>
1026: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1027: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1028: part 6</a>.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.247 jufi 1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1032: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1033: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1034: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1035: </strong></font><br>
1036: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1037: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1038: <p>
1.301 jose 1039:
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1041: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1042: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1043: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1044: </strong></font><br>
1045:
1046: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1047: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1048: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1049: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1050: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1051: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1052: <i>Here's the
1053: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1054: <p>
1.247 jufi 1055: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1056:
1057: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1058: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1059:
1.247 jufi 1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1061: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1062: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1063: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1064: </strong></font><br>
1065: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1066: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1067: <p>
1068:
1.247 jufi 1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1070: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1071: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1072: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1073: </strong></font><br>
1074: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1075: this time using pf.
1076: <p>
1.247 jufi 1077: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1078:
1079: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1080: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1081:
1.247 jufi 1082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1083: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1084: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1085: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1086: </strong></font><br>
1087: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1088: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1089: their rotation.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.247 jufi 1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1093: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1094: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1095: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1096: </strong></font><br>
1097: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1098: <p>
1.247 jufi 1099: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1100:
1.239 jufi 1101: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1102: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1103:
1.247 jufi 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1105: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1106: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1107: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1108: </strong></font><br>
1109: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1110: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1111: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1112: <p>
1113:
1.247 jufi 1114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1115: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1116: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1117: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1118: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1119: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1120: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1121: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1122: <p>
1.247 jufi 1123: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1124:
1.235 lebel 1125: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1126: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1127:
1.239 jufi 1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1130: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1131: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1132: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1133: </strong></font><br>
1134: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1135: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1136: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1137: <p>
1.301 jose 1138:
1.247 jufi 1139: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1140:
1.228 horacio 1141: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1142: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1143:
1.247 jufi 1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1145: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1146: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1147: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1148: </strong></font><br>
1149: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1150: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1151: <p>
1152:
1.247 jufi 1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1154: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1155: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1156: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1157: </strong></font><br>
1158: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1159: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1160: <p>
1161:
1.247 jufi 1162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1163: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1164: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1165: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1166: </strong></font><br>
1167: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1168: on the desktop of his parents.
1169: <p>
1170:
1.247 jufi 1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1172: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1173: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1174: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1175: </strong></font><br>
1176: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1177: using IPFilter.
1178:
1179: <p>
1180:
1.247 jufi 1181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1182: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1183: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1184: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1185: </strong></font><br>
1186: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1187: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1188: perspectives of the four OS.
1189: <br>
1190: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1191: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1192: <p>
1193:
1.247 jufi 1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1195: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1196: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1197: software and security</a>,
1198: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1199: </strong></font><br>
1200:
1201: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1202: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1203: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1204: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1205: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1206: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1207: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1208: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1209: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1210: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1211: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1212: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1213: <p>
1.247 jufi 1214: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1215:
1.225 horacio 1216: <h2>January, 2002</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/2002/January/Features617.html">
1221: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1222: Interview</a>,
1223: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1224: </strong></font><br>
1225:
1226: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1227: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1228: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1229: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1230: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1231: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1232: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1233: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1234: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1235: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1236: of choice.
1237: <p>
1.247 jufi 1238: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1239:
1240: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1241: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1242:
1.247 jufi 1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1244: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1245: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1246: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1247: </strong></font><br>
1248:
1249: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1250: <p>
1251:
1.247 jufi 1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1253: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1254: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1255: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1256: </strong></font><br>
1257:
1258: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1259: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1260: <p>
1.247 jufi 1261: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1262:
1.218 horacio 1263: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1264: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1265:
1.247 jufi 1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1267: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1268: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1269: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1270: </strong></font><br>
1271:
1272: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1273: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1274: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1275: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1276: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1277: subjects. Worth a read.
1278: <p>
1279:
1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1282: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1283: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1284: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286:
1287: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1288: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1289: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1290: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1291: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1292: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1293: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1294: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1295: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1296: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1297: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1298: on other operating systems.<br>
1299: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1300: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1301: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1302: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1303: <p>
1304:
1.247 jufi 1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1306: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1307: Operating System 2010</a>,
1308: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1309: </strong></font><br>
1310:
1311: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1312: covering the level of software integration into the core
1313: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1314: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1315: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1316: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1317: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1318: <p>
1319:
1.247 jufi 1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1321: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1322: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1323: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1324: </strong></font><br>
1325:
1326: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1327: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1328: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1329: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1330: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1331: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1332: <p>
1.247 jufi 1333: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1334:
1.210 jufi 1335: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1336: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1337:
1.247 jufi 1338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1339: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1340: Already a Contender</a>,
1341: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1342: </strong></font><br>
1343:
1344: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1345: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1346: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1347: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1348: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1349: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1350: <p>
1351:
1.247 jufi 1352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1353: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1354: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1355: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1356: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1357:
1.224 horacio 1358: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1359: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1360: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1361: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1362: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1363: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1364: <p>
1.247 jufi 1365: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1366:
1367: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1368: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1369:
1.247 jufi 1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1371: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1372: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1373: Division</a>,
1374: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1375: </strong></font><br>
1376:
1377: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1378: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1379: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1380: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1381: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1382: investment</em>.<br>
1383: The implementation details can be seen on their
1384: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1385: <p>
1386:
1.247 jufi 1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1388: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1389: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1390: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1391: </strong></font><br>
1392:
1393: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1394: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1395: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1396: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1397: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1398: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1399: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1403: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1404: Thinking about Security</a>,
1405: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1406: </strong></font><br>
1407:
1408: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1409: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1410: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1411: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1412: to time.<br>
1413: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1414: system and just the most secure system.
1415: <p>
1416:
1.247 jufi 1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1418: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1419: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1420: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1421: </strong></font><br>
1422:
1423: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1424: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1425: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1426: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1427: choice:<br>
1428: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1429: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1430: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1431: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1432: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1433: network security devices and as such must be well
1434: armored."</em><br>
1435: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1436: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1437: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1438: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1439: <br>
1440: Bravo!
1441: <p>
1.247 jufi 1442: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1443:
1.207 ian 1444: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1445: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1446:
1.247 jufi 1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1448: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1449: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1450: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1451:
1.207 ian 1452: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1453: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1454: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1455: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1456: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1457: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1458: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1459: <p>
1.247 jufi 1460: </ul>
1.207 ian 1461:
1.194 jufi 1462: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1463: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1464:
1.247 jufi 1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1466: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1467: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1468: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1469: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1470:
1.240 miod 1471: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1472: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1473: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1474: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1475: <p>
1476:
1.247 jufi 1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1478: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1479: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1480: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1481:
1482: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1483: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1487: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1488: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1489: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1490:
1491: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1492: <p>
1493:
1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1495: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1496: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1497: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1498: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1499:
1.240 miod 1500: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1501: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1502: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1503: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1504: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1505: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1506: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1507: <br>
1508: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1509: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1510: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1511: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1512: <p>
1513:
1.247 jufi 1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1515: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1516: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1517: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1518: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1519:
1.194 jufi 1520: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1521: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1522: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1523: <br>
1524: The new
1525: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1526: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1527: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1528: <p>
1.247 jufi 1529: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1530:
1.190 horacio 1531: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1532: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1533:
1.247 jufi 1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1535:
1536: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1537: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1538:
1.301 jose 1539:
1.191 jufi 1540: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1541: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1542:
1543: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1544: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1545:
1.212 horacio 1546: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1547: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1548: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1549:
1.211 horacio 1550: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1551: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1552: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1553:
1.247 jufi 1554: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1555: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1556:
1.247 jufi 1557: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1558: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1559:
1.212 horacio 1560: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1561: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1562: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1563:
1564: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1565: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1566:
1567: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1568: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1569:
1.301 jose 1570: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1571: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1572:
1.191 jufi 1573: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1574: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1575:
1576: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1577: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1578:
1.192 jufi 1579: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1580: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1581: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1582:
1.193 deraadt 1583: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1584: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1585: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1586:
1.247 jufi 1587: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1588: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1589:
1.247 jufi 1590: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1591: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1592: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1593:
1.213 horacio 1594: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1595: 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 1596: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1597:
1.190 horacio 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1599: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1600: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1601: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1602: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1603: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1604: <p>
1.190 horacio 1605:
1.247 jufi 1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1607: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1608: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1609: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1610: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1611:
1.195 jufi 1612: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1613: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1614: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1615: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1616: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1617: <p>
1618:
1.247 jufi 1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1620: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1621: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1622: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1623: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1624:
1.191 jufi 1625: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1626: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1627: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1628: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1629: <p>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1632: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1633: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1634: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1635:
1636: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1637: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1638: <p>
1.247 jufi 1639: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1640:
1.191 jufi 1641:
1.186 jufi 1642: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1643: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1644:
1.247 jufi 1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1646: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1647: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1648: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1649: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1650:
1.188 jufi 1651: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1652: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1653: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1654: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1655: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1656: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1657: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1658: <p>
1659:
1.301 jose 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1661: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1662: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1663: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1664:
1665: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1666: <p>
1.191 jufi 1667:
1.247 jufi 1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1669: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1670: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1671: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1672: </strong></font><br>
1673:
1674: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1675: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1676: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1677: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1678: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1679: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1680: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1681: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1682: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1683: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1684: familiar?
1685: <p>
1.247 jufi 1686: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1687:
1.178 louis 1688: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1689: <ul>
1.178 louis 1690:
1.247 jufi 1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1692: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1693: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1694: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1695: </strong></font><br>
1696:
1697: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1698: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1699: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1700: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1701: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1702: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1703: <p>
1704:
1.247 jufi 1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1706: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1707: Open source under the hood</a>,
1708: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1709: </strong></font><br>
1710:
1711: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1712: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1713: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1714: <p>
1715:
1.247 jufi 1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1717: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1718: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1719: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1720: </strong></font><br>
1721:
1722: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1723: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1724: <p>
1.247 jufi 1725: </ul>
1.179 louis 1726:
1.174 louis 1727:
1.175 louis 1728: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1729: <ul>
1.175 louis 1730:
1.247 jufi 1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1732: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1733: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1734: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1735: </strong></font><br>
1736:
1737: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1738: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1739: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1740: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1741: <p>
1742:
1.247 jufi 1743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1744: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1745: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1746: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1747: </strong></font><br>
1748:
1749: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1750: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1751: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1752: <p>
1.247 jufi 1753: </ul>
1.175 louis 1754:
1.176 louis 1755:
1.172 mickey 1756: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1757: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1758:
1.247 jufi 1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1760: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1761: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1762: </strong></font><br>
1763:
1764: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1765: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1766: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1767: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1768: <p>
1769:
1.247 jufi 1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1771: <a
1.269 deraadt 1772: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1773: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1774: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1775: </strong></font><br>
1776:
1777: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1778: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1779: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1780: <p>
1781:
1.247 jufi 1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1783: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1784: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1785: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1786: </strong></font><br>
1787:
1788: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1789: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1790: <p>
1791:
1.247 jufi 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1793: <a
1.269 deraadt 1794: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1795: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1796: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1797: </strong></font><br>
1798:
1799: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1800: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1801: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1802: our own Theo de Raadt.
1803: <p>
1804:
1.247 jufi 1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1806: <a
1.269 deraadt 1807: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1808: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1809: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1810: </strong></font><br>
1811:
1812: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1813: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1814: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1815: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1816: shut down.]
1817: <p>
1818:
1.247 jufi 1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1820: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1821: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1822: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1823: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1824: </strong></font><br>
1825:
1826: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1827: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1828: <p>
1.247 jufi 1829: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1830:
1.161 louis 1831: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1832: <ul>
1.161 louis 1833:
1.247 jufi 1834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1835: <a
1.269 deraadt 1836: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1837: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1838: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1839: </strong></font><br>
1840:
1841: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1842: by John Wolley
1843: <p>
1844:
1.247 jufi 1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1846: <a
1.269 deraadt 1847: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1848: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1849: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1850: </strong></font><br>
1851:
1852: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1853: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1854: OpenBSD).
1855: <p>
1856:
1.247 jufi 1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1858: <a
1.247 jufi 1859: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1860: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1861: </strong></font><br>
1862:
1863: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1864: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1865: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1866: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1867: and hindsight.
1868: <p>
1869:
1.247 jufi 1870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1871: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1872: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1873: </strong></font><br>
1874:
1875: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1876: <p>
1877:
1.247 jufi 1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1879: <a
1.168 provos 1880: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1881: December 7, 2000
1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1885: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1886: us explain.
1887: <p>
1888:
1.247 jufi 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1890: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1891: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1892: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1893: December 6, 2000
1894: </strong></font><br>
1895:
1896: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1897: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1898: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1899: <p>
1900:
1.247 jufi 1901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1902: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1903: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1904: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1905: </strong></font><br>
1906:
1907: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1908: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1909: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1910: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1911: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1912: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1913: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1914: <p>
1915:
1916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1917: <a
1.226 horacio 1918: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1919: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1920: </strong></font><br>
1921:
1922: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1923: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1924: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1925: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1926: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1927: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1928: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1929: <p>
1.162 millert 1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1932: <a
1.161 louis 1933: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1934: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1935: </strong></font><br>
1936:
1937: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1938: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1939: <p>
1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1942: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1943: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945:
1946: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1947: <p>
1948:
1949:
1.247 jufi 1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1951: <a
1.226 horacio 1952: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1953: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1954: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1955: </strong></font><br>
1956:
1957: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1958: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1959: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1960: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1961: <p>
1.247 jufi 1962: </ul>
1.169 louis 1963:
1.158 louis 1964: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1965: <ul>
1.147 louis 1966:
1.247 jufi 1967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1968: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1969: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1973: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1974: <p>
1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1977: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1978: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1979: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1980: </strong></font><br>
1981: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1982: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1983: <p>
1984:
1.247 jufi 1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1986: <a
1987: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1988: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1989: </strong></font><br>
1990:
1991: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1992: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1993: <p>
1994:
1.247 jufi 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1996: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1997: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1998: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1999:
1.213 horacio 2000: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 2001: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
2002: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2003: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2004: <p>
1.215 horacio 2005:
1.247 jufi 2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2007: <a
2008: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2009: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2010: </strong></font><br>
2011:
2012: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2013: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2014: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2015: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2016: much of the attitude too).
2017: <p>
1.161 louis 2018:
1.247 jufi 2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2020: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2021: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2022: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2023:
1.157 louis 2024: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2025: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2026: <p>
1.247 jufi 2027: </ul>
1.157 louis 2028:
2029: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2030: <ul>
1.157 louis 2031:
1.247 jufi 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2033: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2034: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2035: </strong></font><br>
2036:
2037: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2038: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2039: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2040: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2041: <p>
2042:
1.247 jufi 2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2044: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2045: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2046: </strong></font><br>
2047:
2048: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2049: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2050: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2051: it because they love coding...
2052: <p>
2053:
1.247 jufi 2054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2055: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2056: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2057: </strong></font><br>
2058:
2059: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2060: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2061: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2062: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2063: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2064: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2065: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2066: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2067: <p>
2068:
1.247 jufi 2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2070: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2071: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2072: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2073: </strong></font><br>
2074:
2075: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2076: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2077: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2078: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2079: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2080: the pizza.
2081: <p>
2082:
1.247 jufi 2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2084: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2085: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2086: </strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2089: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2090: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2091: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2092: problems.
2093: <p>
2094:
1.247 jufi 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2096: <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 2097: </strong></font><br>
2098:
1.222 miod 2099: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2100: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2101: - whether they like it or not.
2102: <p>
2103:
1.247 jufi 2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2105: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2106: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2107: </strong></font><br>
2108:
2109: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2110: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2111: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2112: <p>
1.148 aaron 2113:
1.247 jufi 2114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2115: <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 2116: </strong></font><br>
2117:
2118: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2119: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2120: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2121: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2122: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2123: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2124: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2125: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2126: <p>
2127:
1.247 jufi 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2129: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2130: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2131: </strong></font><br>
2132:
2133: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2134: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2135: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2136: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2137: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2138: <p>
1.247 jufi 2139: </ul>
1.147 louis 2140:
1.138 louis 2141: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2142: <ul>
1.138 louis 2143:
1.247 jufi 2144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2145: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2146: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2147: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2148: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2149: </strong></font><br>
2150:
1.227 horacio 2151: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2152: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2153: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2154: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2155: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2156: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2157: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2158: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2159: <p>
2160:
1.247 jufi 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2162: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2163: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2164: </strong></font><br>
2165:
2166: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2167: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2168: groups, and even Linux.
2169: <p>
2170:
1.247 jufi 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2172: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2173: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2174: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2175: </strong></font><br>
2176:
2177: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2178: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2179: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2180: library after installing the OS.
2181: <p>
2182:
1.247 jufi 2183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2184: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2185: Sys Admin, September 2000
2186: </strong></font><br>
2187:
2188: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2189: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2190: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2191: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2192: (<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>,
2193: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2194: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2195: <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 2196: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2197: out of the system.
2198: <p>
2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2201: <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
2202: </strong></font><br>
2203:
2204: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2205: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2206: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2207: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2208: the IP filtering and address translation.
2209: <p>
1.301 jose 2210:
2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2212: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2213: </strong></font><br>
2214:
2215: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2216: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2217: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2218: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2219: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2220: <p>
1.247 jufi 2221: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2222:
1.131 louis 2223: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2224: <ul>
1.131 louis 2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2227: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2228: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2229: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2230: </strong></font><br>
2231:
2232: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2233: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2234: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2238: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2239: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2240: </strong></font><br>
2241:
2242: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2243: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2244: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2245: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2246: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2247: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2248: note of"</i>.
2249: <p>
2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2252: <a
1.247 jufi 2253: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2254: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2255: </strong></font><br>
2256:
2257: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2258: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2259: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2260: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2261: <p>
2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2264: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2265: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2266: </strong></font><br>
2267:
2268: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2269: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2270: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2271: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2272: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2273: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2274: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2275: <p>
2276:
1.247 jufi 2277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2278: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2279: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2280: 2000
2281: </strong></font><br>
2282:
2283: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2284: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2285: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2286: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2287: against current industry practices.
2288: <p>
2289:
1.247 jufi 2290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2291: <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
2292: </strong></font><br>
2293:
2294: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2295: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2296: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2297: <p>
2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2300: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2301: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2302: </strong></font><br>
2303:
2304: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2305: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2306: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2307: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2308: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2309: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2310: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2311: <p>
2312:
1.247 jufi 2313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2314: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2315: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2316: </strong></font><br>
2317:
2318: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2319: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2320: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2321: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2322: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2323: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2324: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2325: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2326: <p>
1.247 jufi 2327: </ul>
1.131 louis 2328:
1.118 louis 2329: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2330: <ul>
1.118 louis 2331:
1.247 jufi 2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2333: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2334: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2335: </strong></font><br>
2336:
2337: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2338: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2339: about time. The article mentions that
2340: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2341: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2342: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2343: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2344: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2345: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2346: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2347: <p>
2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2350: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2351: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2352: </strong></font><br>
2353:
2354: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2355: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2356: of OpenSSH.
2357: <p>
2358:
1.247 jufi 2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2360: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2361: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2362: </strong></font><br>
2363:
2364: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2365: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2366: bridging.
2367: <p>
2368:
1.247 jufi 2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2370: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2371: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
1.121 deraadt 2374: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2375: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2376: <p>
2377:
1.247 jufi 2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2379: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2380: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2381: </strong></font><br>
2382:
2383: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2384: <p>
2385:
1.247 jufi 2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2387: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2388: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2389: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2390: </strong></font><br>
2391:
1.120 deraadt 2392: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2393: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2394: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2395: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2396: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2397: <p>
2398:
1.247 jufi 2399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2400: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2401: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2402: </strong></font><br>
2403:
1.222 miod 2404: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2405: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2406: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2407: protocols and their quirks.
2408: <p>
2409:
1.247 jufi 2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2411: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2412: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2413: </strong></font><br>
2414:
2415: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2416: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2417: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2418: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2419: <p>
2420:
1.247 jufi 2421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2422: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2423: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2424: </strong></font><br>
2425:
2426: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2427: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2428: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2429: <p>
2430:
1.247 jufi 2431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2432: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2433: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2434: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2435: </strong></font><br>
2436:
2437: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2438: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2439: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2440: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2441: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2442: <p>
1.247 jufi 2443: </ul>
1.118 louis 2444:
1.104 louis 2445: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2446: <ul>
1.104 louis 2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2449: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2450: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2451: </strong></font><br>
2452:
2453: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2454: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2455: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2456: be a bit dry.
2457: <p>
2458:
1.247 jufi 2459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2460: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2461: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2462: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2463: </strong></font><br>
2464: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2465: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2466: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2467: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2468: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2469: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2470: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2471: <p>
2472:
1.247 jufi 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2474: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2475: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2476: 2000
1.128 louis 2477: </strong></font><br>
2478:
2479: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2480: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2481: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2482: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2483: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2484: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2485: <p>
2486:
1.247 jufi 2487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2488: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2489: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2490: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2491:
2492: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2493: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2494: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2495: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2496: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2497: <p>
1.110 louis 2498:
1.247 jufi 2499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2500: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2501: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2505: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2506: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2507: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2508: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2509: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2510: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2511: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2512: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2513: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2514: <p>
2515:
1.247 jufi 2516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2517: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2518: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2519:
2520: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2521: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2522: <p>
1.108 louis 2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2525: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2526: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2527: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2528:
2529: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2530: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2531: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2532: <p>
1.106 louis 2533:
1.247 jufi 2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2535: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2536: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2537: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2538:
2539: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2540: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2541: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2542: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2543: <p>
1.107 louis 2544:
1.247 jufi 2545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2546: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2547: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2548: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2549:
2550: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2551: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2552: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2553: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2554: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2555: <p>
1.105 louis 2556:
1.247 jufi 2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2558: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2559: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2560: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2561:
1.113 naddy 2562: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2563: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2564: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2565: <p>
1.104 louis 2566:
1.247 jufi 2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2568: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2569: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2570: </strong></font><br>
2571:
2572: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2573: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2574: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2575: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2576: <p>
1.301 jose 2577:
2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2579: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2580: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2581: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2582:
2583: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2584: hardware-supported cryptography.
2585: <p>
1.247 jufi 2586: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2587:
1.85 louis 2588: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2589: <ul>
1.85 louis 2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2592: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2593: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2594: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2595:
2596: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2597: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2598: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2599: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2600: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2601: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2602: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2603: <p>
1.99 louis 2604:
1.247 jufi 2605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2606: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2607: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2608: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2609:
2610: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2611: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2612: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2613: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2614: <p>
1.100 louis 2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2617: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2618: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2619: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2620:
2621: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2622: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2623: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2624: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2625: <p>
1.95 louis 2626:
1.247 jufi 2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2628: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2629: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2630: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2631:
2632: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2633: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2634: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2635: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2636: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2637: <p>
1.92 louis 2638:
1.247 jufi 2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2640: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2641: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2642: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2643:
2644: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2645: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2646: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2647: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2648: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2649: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2650: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2651: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2652: <p>
1.91 louis 2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2655: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2656: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2657: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2658:
2659: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2660: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2661: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2662: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2663: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2664: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2665: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2666: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2667: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2668: <p>
1.90 louis 2669:
1.247 jufi 2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2671: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2672: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2673: </strong></font><br>
2674: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2675: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2676: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2677: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2678: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2679: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2680: <p>
2681:
1.247 jufi 2682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2683: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2684: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2685: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2686:
1.113 naddy 2687: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2688: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2689: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2690: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2691: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2692: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2693: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2694: <p>
1.87 louis 2695:
1.247 jufi 2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2697: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2698: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2699: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2700:
2701: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2702: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2703: <p>
1.85 louis 2704:
1.247 jufi 2705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2706: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2707: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2708: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2709:
2710: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2711: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2712: <p>
2713:
2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2715: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2716: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2717: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2718:
2719: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2720: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2721: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2722: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2723: <p>
1.89 louis 2724:
1.247 jufi 2725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2726: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2727: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2728: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2729:
2730: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2731: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2732: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2733: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2734: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2735: </ul>
1.85 louis 2736:
1.78 deraadt 2737: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2738: <ul>
1.74 louis 2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2741: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2742: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2743: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2744: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2745:
2746: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2747: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2748: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2749: <p>
1.83 louis 2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2752: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2753: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2754: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2755:
2756: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2757: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2758: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2759: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2760: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2761: <p>
1.93 louis 2762:
1.247 jufi 2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2764: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2765: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2766: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2767: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2768:
1.83 louis 2769: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2770: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2771: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2772: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2773: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2774: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2775: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2776: <p>
1.82 aaron 2777:
1.247 jufi 2778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2779: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2780: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2781: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2782:
1.83 louis 2783: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2784: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2785: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2786: <p>
1.80 louis 2787:
1.247 jufi 2788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2789: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2790: Bad Press</a>,
2791: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2792: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2793:
2794: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2795: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2796: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2797: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2798: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2799: <p>
1.247 jufi 2800: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2801:
2802: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2803: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2804:
1.247 jufi 2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2806: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2807: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2808: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2809: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2810:
2811: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2812: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2813: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2814: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2815: <p>
1.74 louis 2816:
1.247 jufi 2817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2818: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2819: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2820: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2821:
1.219 horacio 2822: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2823: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2824: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2825: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2826: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2827: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2828: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2829: <p>
1.88 louis 2830:
1.247 jufi 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2832: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2833: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2834: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2835:
2836: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2837: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2838: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2839: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2840: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2841: <p>
1.81 louis 2842:
1.247 jufi 2843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2844: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2845: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2846: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2847:
2848: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2849: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2850: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2851: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2852: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2853: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2854: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2855: <p>
1.90 louis 2856:
1.247 jufi 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2858: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2859: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2860: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2861:
2862: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2863: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2864: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2865: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2866: <p>
1.247 jufi 2867: </ul>
1.71 louis 2868:
1.69 deraadt 2869: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2870: <ul>
1.70 louis 2871:
1.247 jufi 2872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2873: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2874: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2875: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2876:
2877: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2878: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2879: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2880: <p>
1.70 louis 2881:
1.247 jufi 2882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2883: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2884: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2885: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2886:
2887: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2888: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2889: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2890: <p>
1.68 louis 2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2893: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2894: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2895: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2896: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2897:
1.111 jufi 2898: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2899: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2900: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2901: "secure by default" installation.
2902: <p>
1.64 louis 2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2905: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2906: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2907: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2908:
1.113 naddy 2909: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2910: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2911: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2912: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2913: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2914: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2915: <p>
1.66 louis 2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2918: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2919: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2920: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2921:
2922: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2923: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2924: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2925: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2926: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2927: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2928: <p>
1.83 louis 2929:
1.247 jufi 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2931: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2932: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2933: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2934:
2935: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2936: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2937: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2938: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2939: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2940: <p>
1.64 louis 2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2943: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2944: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2945: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2946:
2947: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2948: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2949: <p>
1.301 jose 2950:
2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2952: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2953: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2954: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2955: </strong></font><br>
2956:
2957: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2958: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2959: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2960: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2961: Giving way to
2962: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2963: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2964: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2965: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2966: <p>
1.247 jufi 2967: </ul>
1.65 louis 2968:
1.69 deraadt 2969: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2970: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2971:
1.247 jufi 2972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2973: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2974: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2975: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2976:
2977: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2978: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2979: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2980: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2981: <p>
1.88 louis 2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2984: <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 2985: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2986:
2987: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2988: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2989: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2990: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2991: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2992: <p>
1.60 louis 2993:
1.247 jufi 2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2995: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2996: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2997: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2998: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2999:
3000: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3001: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3002: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3003: <p>
1.58 louis 3004:
1.247 jufi 3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3006: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3007: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3008:
3009: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3010: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3011: <p>
1.53 louis 3012:
1.247 jufi 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3014: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3015: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3016: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3017:
3018: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3019: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3020: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3021: <p>
1.99 louis 3022:
1.247 jufi 3023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3024: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3025: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3026:
3027: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3028: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3029: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3030: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3031: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3032:
1.247 jufi 3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3034: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3035: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3036: </strong></font><br>
3037:
3038: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3039: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3040: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3041: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3042: <p>
3043:
1.247 jufi 3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3045: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3046: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3047: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3048:
3049: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3050: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3051: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3052:
1.247 jufi 3053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3054: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3055: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3056:
3057: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3058: in
1.247 jufi 3059: <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 3060: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3061: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3062: <p>
1.53 louis 3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3065: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3066: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3067: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3068: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3069:
1.58 louis 3070: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3071: <p>
1.301 jose 3072:
3073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3074: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3075: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3076: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3077: Informacyjny, January 2000
3078: </strong></font><br>
3079:
3080: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3081: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3082: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3083: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3084: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3085: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3086: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3087: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3088: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3089: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3090: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3091: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3092: <p>
3093:
3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3095: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3096: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3097: </strong></font><br>
3098:
3099: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3100: <p>
3101: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3102:
1.69 deraadt 3103: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3107: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3108: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3109: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3110: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3111:
1.58 louis 3112: Kurt Seifried
3113: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3114: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3115: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3116: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3119: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3120: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3121: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3122:
3123: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3124: <p>
1.96 louis 3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3127: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3128: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3129: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3130: </strong></font><br>
3131:
3132: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3133: <p>
3134:
3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3136: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3137: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3138: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3139:
3140: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3141: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3142: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3143: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3144: <p>
1.247 jufi 3145: </ul>
1.86 louis 3146:
1.69 deraadt 3147: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3148: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3149:
1.247 jufi 3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3151: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3152: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3153: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3154:
3155: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3156: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3157: <p>
1.61 louis 3158:
1.247 jufi 3159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3160: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3161: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3162: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3163: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3164:
3165: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3166: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3167: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3168: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3169: right -- or at least strives to".
3170: <p>
1.48 louis 3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3173: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3174: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3175: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3176: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3177: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3178: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3179: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3180: <p>
1.61 louis 3181:
1.247 jufi 3182: <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 3183: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3184: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3185:
3186: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3187: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3188: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3189: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.46 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3193: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3194: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3196:
3197: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3198: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3199: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3200:
1.247 jufi 3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3202: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3203: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3204: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3205:
3206: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3207: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3208: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3209: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3210: <p>
1.247 jufi 3211: </ul>
1.70 louis 3212:
1.69 deraadt 3213: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3214: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3217: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3218: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3219: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3221:
3222: Kurt Seifried
3223: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3224: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3225: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3226: <p>
1.44 philen 3227:
1.247 jufi 3228: <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 3229: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3230: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3231:
3232: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3233: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3234:
1.247 jufi 3235: <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 3236: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3237: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3238:
3239: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3240: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <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 3243: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3244: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3245:
3246: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3247: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3248: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3249: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3250: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3251:
1.247 jufi 3252: <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 3253: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3254: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3255:
1.36 louis 3256: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3257: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3258:
1.247 jufi 3259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3260: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3261: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3262: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3263:
3264: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3265: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3266: </ul>
1.38 louis 3267:
1.69 deraadt 3268: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3269: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3270:
1.247 jufi 3271: <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 3272: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3273: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3274:
3275: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3276: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3277: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3278:
1.113 naddy 3279: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3280: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3281: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3282: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3283:
3284: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3285: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3286: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3287: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3288: <blockquote>
3289: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3290: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3291: <br>
3292: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3293: </code>
3294: </blockquote>
3295: <p>
3296:
1.247 jufi 3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3298: <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 3299: <p>
3300:
3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3302: <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 3303: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3304:
3305: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3306: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3307: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3308: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3311: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3312: Sept. 28, 1999
3313: </strong></font><br>
3314:
3315: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3316: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3317: translating and reprinting articles from
3318: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3319: <p>
3320:
3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3322: <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 3323: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3324:
3325: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3326: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3327: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3328: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3329: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3330: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3331: <p>
1.19 louis 3332:
1.113 naddy 3333: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3334: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3335: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3336:
3337: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3338: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3339: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3340: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3341: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3342: <p>
1.16 louis 3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3345: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3346: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3347: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3348:
1.57 louis 3349: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3350: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3351: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3352: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3353:
1.247 jufi 3354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3355: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3356: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3357: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3358:
1.113 naddy 3359: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3360:
1.247 jufi 3361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3362: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3363: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3364: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3365:
1.23 louis 3366: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3367: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3368: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3369: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3370: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3371: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3374: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3375: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3376: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3377:
1.199 pvalchev 3378: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3379: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3380: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3381: installation.
1.113 naddy 3382: <p>
1.47 louis 3383:
1.247 jufi 3384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3385: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3386: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3387: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3388:
1.301 jose 3389: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3390: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3391: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3392: </ul>
1.57 louis 3393:
1.69 deraadt 3394: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3395: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3396:
1.247 jufi 3397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3398: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3399: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3400: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3401:
3402: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3403: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3404: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3405: <p>
1.12 louis 3406:
1.247 jufi 3407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3408: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3409: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3410: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3411:
3412: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3413: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3414: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3415: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3416: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3417: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3418: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3419: <p>
1.247 jufi 3420: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3421:
1.69 deraadt 3422: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3423: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3424:
1.247 jufi 3425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3426: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3427: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3428:
3429: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3430: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3431: available."
1.113 naddy 3432: <p>
1.301 jose 3433:
3434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3435: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3436: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3437: </strong></font><br>
3438:
3439: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3440: <p>
1.247 jufi 3441: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3442:
1.69 deraadt 3443: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3444: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3447: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3448: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3449:
3450: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3451: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3452: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3453: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3454: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3455: <p>
1.33 louis 3456:
1.247 jufi 3457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3458: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3459: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3460: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3461:
1.113 naddy 3462: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3463: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3464: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3465: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3466: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3467: <p>
1.247 jufi 3468: </ul>
1.57 louis 3469:
1.69 deraadt 3470: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3471: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3474: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3475: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3476: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3477:
3478: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3479: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3480: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3481:
1.247 jufi 3482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3483: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3484: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3485: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3486: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3487:
3488: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3489: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3490:
1.247 jufi 3491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3492: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3493:
1.113 naddy 3494: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3495:
1.247 jufi 3496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3497: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3498: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3499: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3500:
3501: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3502: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3503: </ul>
1.23 louis 3504:
1.69 deraadt 3505: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3506: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3507:
1.247 jufi 3508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3509: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3510: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3511:
3512: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3513: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3514: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3517: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3518: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3519: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3520:
3521: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3522: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3523: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3524: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3525: </ul>
1.57 louis 3526:
1.69 deraadt 3527: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3528: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3529:
1.247 jufi 3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3531: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3532: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3533: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3534:
3535: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3536: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3537: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3538: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3539: <p>
1.15 louis 3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3542: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3543: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3544: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3545:
3546: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3547: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3548: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3549: columns."
1.113 naddy 3550: <p>
1.247 jufi 3551: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3552:
1.69 deraadt 3553: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3554: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3555:
1.247 jufi 3556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3557: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3558: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3559: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3560:
3561: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3562: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3563:
1.113 naddy 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3565: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3566: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3567:
3568: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3569: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3570: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3571: </ul>
1.57 louis 3572:
1.69 deraadt 3573: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3574: <ul>
1.301 jose 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3576: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3577: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3578: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3579:
3580: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3581: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3582: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3583: <p>
3584:
3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3586: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3587: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3588: Nov 13, 1998 and
3589: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3590: Datateknik</a>,
3591: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3592:
3593: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3594: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3595: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3596: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3597: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3598:
1.113 naddy 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3600: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3601: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3602: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3603:
1.222 miod 3604: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3605: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3606: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3607: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3608: <p>
1.247 jufi 3609: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3610:
1.69 deraadt 3611: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3612: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3613:
1.247 jufi 3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3615: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3616: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3617:
1.69 deraadt 3618: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3619: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3620: <p>
1.247 jufi 3621: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3622:
1.69 deraadt 3623: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3624: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3625:
1.247 jufi 3626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3627: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3628: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3629: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3630:
3631: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3632: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3633: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3634:
1.247 jufi 3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3636: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3637: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3638: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3639: <p>
1.247 jufi 3640: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3641:
1.69 deraadt 3642: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3643: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3646: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3647: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3648: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3649: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3650: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3651:
3652: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3653: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3654: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3655: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3656: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3657: <p>
1.247 jufi 3658: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3659:
3660: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3661: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3662:
1.247 jufi 3663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3664: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3665: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3666:
1.69 deraadt 3667: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3668: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3669: <p>
1.112 naddy 3670:
1.247 jufi 3671: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3673:
1.292 camield 3674: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3675: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3676: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.355 ! jose 3677: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.354 2003/06/01 07:42:44 david Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3678:
3679: </body>
3680: </html>