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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.356 jose 19: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 23: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
24: </strong></font><br>
25: Interview with Theo about funding, hackathons, and security in OpenBSD.
26: <p>
27:
28: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 29: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
30: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
31: Page 58, eWeek,
32: June 2, 2003.
33: </strong></font><br>
34: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
35: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
36: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
37: been addressed in -current.
38: <p>
39:
1.356 jose 40: </ul>
41:
42: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
43: <ul>
44:
1.355 jose 45: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 46: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
47: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
48: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
49: </strong></font><br>
50: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
51: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
52: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
53: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
54: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
55: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
56: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 60: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
61: Beyond Linux</a>,
62: InfoWorld,
63: May 23, 2003.
64: </strong></font><br>
65: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
66: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
67: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
68: compared to the GPL.
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 72: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
73: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
74: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 75: May 17, 2003.
76: </strong></font><br>
77: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
78: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
79: the business section and half of another page inside
80: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
81: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
82: in talking about the project's history and goals.
83: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
84: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
85: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
86: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 87: <br>
88: This article can also be found online at:
89: <ul>
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
91: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
92: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
93: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
94: May 17, 2003
95: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 96: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
98: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
99: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
100: Montreal Gazette,
101: May 21, 2003
102: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 103: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 104: <p>
1.346 ian 105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 107: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 108: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 109: May 7, 2003.
110: </strong></font><br>
111: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
112: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
113: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 117: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
118: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
119: OsOpinion,
120: May 6, 2003.
121: </strong></font><br>
122: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
123: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
124: <br>
125: This article can also be found online at:
126: <ul>
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
128: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
129: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
130: NewsFactor Network.
131: </strong></font>
132: </ul>
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 136: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 137: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
138: ITBusiness,
139: May 2, 2003.
140: </strong></font><br>
141: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
142: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
143: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
144: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 148: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
149: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
150: InfoWorld,
151: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 152: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 153: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
154: <br>
155: This article can also be found online at:
156: <ul>
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
158: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
159: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
160: IDG Singapore.
161: </strong></font>
162: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 163: <p>
164:
1.339 jose 165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
166: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
167: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 168: ZDNet,
169: May 1, 2003.
170: </strong></font><br>
171: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 172: someone using parts from previous articles.
173: <br>
1.341 deraadt 174: This article can also be found online at:
175: <ul>
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
177: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
178: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
179: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 180: </strong></font>
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
182: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
183: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
184: CNET News.com.
185: </strong></font>
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
188: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
189: ZDNet UK.
190: </strong></font>
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
192: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
193: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
194: Help Net Security, Croatia.
195: </strong></font>
196: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 197: <p>
1.339 jose 198:
1.341 deraadt 199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 200: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 201: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
202: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
203: May 1, 2003.
204: </strong></font><br>
205: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
206: that have been added
207: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
208: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
209: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 210: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 211: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
212: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
213: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 214: <p>
215:
216: </ul>
217:
1.253 ian 218: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
219: <ul>
1.255 ian 220:
1.260 ian 221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 222: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 223: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
224: TechRepublic,
225: April 28, 2003.
226: </strong></font><br>
227: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
228: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 229: work.<br>
230: Can also be found online at:
231: <ul>
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
233: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
234: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
235: ZDNet UK.
236: </strong></font>
237: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 238: <p>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 241: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
242: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
243: IDG,
244: April 24, 2003.
245: </strong></font><br>
246: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
247: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
248: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
249: Can also be found online at:
250: <ul>
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
252: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
253: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 254: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 255: </strong></font>
256: </ul>
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
260: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 261: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 262: Slate,
263: April 24, 2003.
264: </strong></font><br>
265: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
266: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
267: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
268: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 272: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
273: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
274: April 24, 2003.
275: </strong></font><br>
276: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
277: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
278: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
279: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 283: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
284: April 24, 2003.
285: </strong></font><br>
286: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
287: the free software community".
288: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
289: other articles.
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 293: <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 294: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
295: </strong></font><br>
296: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
297: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
298: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
299: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
300: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
301: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
302: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
303: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
304: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
305: <br/>
306: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
307: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
308: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
309: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 310: <br>
311: Can also be found online at:
312: <ul>
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
315: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
316: Common Dreams NewsCenter
317: </strong></font>
318: </ul>
1.324 ian 319: <p>
320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
323: Wired, April 24, 2003.
324: </strong></font><br>
325: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
326: article above.
327: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
328: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
329: wasting them."
1.332 ian 330: <br>
331: Can also be found online at:
332: <ul>
333: <li>
334: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
335: </strong></font>
336: </ul>
1.324 ian 337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 340: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
341: </strong></font><br>
342: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 346: <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.
347: </strong></font><br>
348: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
349: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
350: <p>
351:
352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 353: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
354: April 23, 2003.
355: </strong></font><br>
356: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 360: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 361: April 22, 2003.
362: </strong></font><br>
363: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 367: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
368: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
369: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 370: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 371: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
372: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
373: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
374: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
375: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
376: Can also be found online at:
377: <ul>
378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
379: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 380: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
381: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 382: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
384: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 385: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
386: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 387: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 388: </ul>
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 392: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
393: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 394: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 395: </strong></font><br>
396: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 397: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
398: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
399: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
400: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
401: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
402: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 403: <p>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 406: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
407: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 408: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
409: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 410: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
411: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
412: at UPenn and DARPA.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 ! miod 416: [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 Informatique,
! 417: France
1.315 deraadt 418: April 18, 2003.
419: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 420: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 424: [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 425: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 426: </strong></font><br>
427: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 431: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
432: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
433: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 434: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 435: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
436: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
437: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 441: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
442: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 443: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 444: </strong></font><br>
445: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
446: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
447: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 448: American century.
1.267 deraadt 449: <p>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 452: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
453: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 454: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 455: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 456: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
457: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
458: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
459: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
460: Can also be found online at:
461: <ul>
462: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
463: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 464: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 465: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 466: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 467: <p>
468:
469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 470: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 471: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 472: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 473: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 474: </strong></font><br>
475: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 476: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
477: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
478: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
479: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
482: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
483: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
484: New York Times.
485: </strong></font>(free registration required)
486:
1.273 deraadt 487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
488: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 489: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 490: ABC News.
491: </strong></font>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 494: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 495: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 496: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 497: </strong></font>
498:
499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 500: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 501: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 502: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 503: </strong></font>
504:
505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 506: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
507: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 508: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 509: </strong></font>
510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 512: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 513: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 514: Times Daily, AL.
515: </strong></font>
516:
517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
518: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
519: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
520: Boston.com, MA.
521: </strong></font>
522:
523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 524: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 525: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 526: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
527: </strong></font>
528:
529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 530: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
531: [Article was pulled]</a>
532: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 533: </strong></font>
534:
535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
536: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
537: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
538: Infoshop News.
539: </strong></font>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
542: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
543: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
544: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
545: </strong></font>
546:
547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 548: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
549: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
550: Raleigh News, NC.
551: </strong></font>
552:
553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 554: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 555: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
556: Napa News, CA.
557: </strong></font>
558:
559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 560: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 561: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
562: NEPA News, PA.
563: </strong></font>
564:
565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
566: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
567: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
568: Wired News.
569: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 570: <br>
571: <li>
1.333 deraadt 572: <font color="#009000"><strong>
573: [JAPANESE]
574: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
575: Wired News Japan</a>
576: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 577:
1.271 deraadt 578: </ul>
579: <p>
1.272 deraadt 580: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
581: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 582: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
583: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
584: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
585: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
586: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
587: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 588: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 589: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
590: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
591: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 592: <p>
593: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 594:
595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 596: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 597: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
598: Indianapolis Star, IN.
599: </strong></font>
600:
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 602: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
603: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
604: Miami Herald, FL.
605: </strong></font>
606:
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 608: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 609: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
610: </strong></font>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
613: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 614: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 615: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 616: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 617:
618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
619: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
620: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
621: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
622: ABC News.
623: </strong></font>
624:
1.276 deraadt 625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
626: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 627: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 628: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 629: </strong></font>
630:
1.286 dhartmei 631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 632: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 633: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
634: Wilmington Star, NC.
635: </strong></font>
636:
1.300 jose 637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
638: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
639: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
640: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
641: </strong></font>
642:
1.309 jose 643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
644: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
645: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
646: Globe Technology.
647: </strong></font>
648:
1.263 deraadt 649: </ul>
1.262 beck 650: <p>
651:
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 653: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
654: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 655: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 656: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 657: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 658: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
659: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
660: <p>
661:
662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 663: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
664: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
665: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 666: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 667: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
668: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
669: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
670: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
671: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
672: and simply restates other press reports.
673: <p>
674:
675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 676: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
677: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
678: OS News, April 18, 2003.
679: </strong></font><br>
680: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 684: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
685: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 686: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 687: </strong></font><br>
688: Another report on the DARPA funding.
689: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
690: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 694: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
695: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
696: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
697: April 17, 2003.
698: </strong></font><br>
699: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
700: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
701: Tech Anthems</a>
702: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
703: 4 so far.
704: <p>
705:
706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 707: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
708: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 709: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 710: </strong></font><br>
711: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
712: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
713: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
714: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
715: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
716: Goes on to say:
717: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
718: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
719: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
720: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 721: This article is also found online at:
722: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
724: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
725: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
726: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 727: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
729: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
730: ZDnet</a>,
731: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 732: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
734: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
735: ZDnet Australia</a>,
736: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 737: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 738: </ul>
1.260 ian 739: <p>
1.279 deraadt 740:
1.260 ian 741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 742: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 743: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 744: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 745: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 746: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 747: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
748: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
749: without notice or justification.
750: <p>
751:
752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 753: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 754: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 755: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 756: </strong></font><br>
757: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
758: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 759: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 760: effective today, without any warning..."
761: <p>
1.257 ian 762:
763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 764: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
765: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 766: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 767: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 768: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
769: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
770: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
771: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
772: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 776: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
777: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 778: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 779: </strong></font><br>
780: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
781: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
782: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
783: quoting two of them:
784: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
785: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
786: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
787: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
788: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
789: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
790: <p>
791:
1.255 ian 792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 793: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
794: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 795: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 796: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 797: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 801: [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 802: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 803: </strong></font><br>
804: New security concepts in OpenBSD
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 808: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
809: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 810: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 811: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 812: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 813: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
814: security experts for more than three decades."
815: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
816: <p>
1.261 ian 817:
1.254 drahn 818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 819: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 820: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 821: </strong></font><br>
822: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 826: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
827: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
828: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
829: </strong></font><br>
830: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
831: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
832: discussion OpenBSD's path.
833: <p>
834:
835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 836: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
837: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 838: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 839: </strong></font><br>
840: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
841: from US DARPA.
842: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
843: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
844: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
845: the BSD license.
846: <p>
847: </ul>
848:
1.251 ian 849: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
850: <ul>
851:
852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 853: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
854: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
855: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
856: </strong></font><br>
857:
858: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
859: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
860: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
861: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
862: <p>
863:
864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 865: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
866: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 867: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 868: </strong></font><br>
869: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
870: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
871: Mentions
872: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
873: and
874: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
875: programs.
876: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 877: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 878: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
879: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
880: <p>
1.325 ian 881: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
882: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 883:
884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
885: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
886: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
887: </strong></font><br>
888: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
889: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
890: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
891: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
892: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
893: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
894: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
895: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
896: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
897: put into service."
898: <p>
899: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
900: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
901: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
902: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
903: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
904: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
905: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
906: computers with security features."
907: <p>
1.329 ian 908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
910: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
911: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
912: Slate,
913: March 3, 2003.
914: </strong></font><br>
915: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
916: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
917: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
918: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
919: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
920: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
921: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
922: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
923: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
924: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
925: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
926: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
927: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
928: of more secure open-source solutions like
929: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
930: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
931: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
932: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
933: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
934: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
935: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
936: the Beltway."
937: <p>
1.251 ian 938: </ul>
939:
1.249 jufi 940: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
941: <ul>
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
943: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
944: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 945: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 946: </strong></font><br>
947: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
948: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 949: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 950: <p>
1.334 ian 951:
952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
953: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
954: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
955: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
956: </strong></font><br>
957: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
958: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
959: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
960: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
961: "... the hypothetical question ...
962: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
963: <br>
964: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
965: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
966: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
967: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
968: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
969: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 970: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 971: support network security.
972: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
973: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
974: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
975: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
976: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
977: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
978: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
979: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
980: <br>
981: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
982: <p>
983:
1.249 jufi 984: </ul>
985:
1.246 jufi 986: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 987: <ul>
1.246 jufi 988:
1.247 jufi 989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 990: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 991: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
992: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 993: </strong></font><br>
994: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
995: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
996: <p>
997:
1.247 jufi 998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 999: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1000: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1001: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1004: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1008: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1009: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1010: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1013: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1014: <p>
1.247 jufi 1015: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1016:
1.244 jufi 1017: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1018: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1019:
1.247 jufi 1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1021: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1022: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1023: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1024: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1025: </strong></font><br>
1026: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1027: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1028: md5 digests.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.247 jufi 1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1032: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1033: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1034: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1035: </strong></font><br>
1036: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1037: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1038: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1039: right the first time."
1040: <p>
1.247 jufi 1041: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1042:
1043:
1044: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1045: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1046:
1.247 jufi 1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1048: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1049: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1050: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1051: </strong></font><br>
1052: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1053: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1054: part 6</a>.
1055: <p>
1056:
1.247 jufi 1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1058: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1059: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1060: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1061: </strong></font><br>
1062: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1063: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1064: <p>
1.301 jose 1065:
1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1067: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1068: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1069: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1070: </strong></font><br>
1071:
1072: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1073: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1074: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1075: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1076: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1077: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1078: <i>Here's the
1079: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1080: <p>
1.247 jufi 1081: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1082:
1083: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1084: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1085:
1.247 jufi 1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1087: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1088: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1089: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1090: </strong></font><br>
1091: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1092: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1093: <p>
1094:
1.247 jufi 1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1096: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1097: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1098: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1099: </strong></font><br>
1100: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1101: this time using pf.
1102: <p>
1.247 jufi 1103: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1104:
1105: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1106: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1107:
1.247 jufi 1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1109: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1110: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1111: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1114: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1115: their rotation.
1116: <p>
1117:
1.247 jufi 1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1119: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1120: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1121: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1122: </strong></font><br>
1123: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1124: <p>
1.247 jufi 1125: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1126:
1.239 jufi 1127: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1128: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1129:
1.247 jufi 1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1131: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1132: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1133: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1134: </strong></font><br>
1135: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1136: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1137: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1138: <p>
1139:
1.247 jufi 1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1141: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1142: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1143: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1144: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1145: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1146: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1147: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1148: <p>
1.247 jufi 1149: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1150:
1.235 lebel 1151: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1152: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1153:
1.239 jufi 1154:
1.247 jufi 1155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1156: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1157: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1158: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1159: </strong></font><br>
1160: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1161: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1162: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1163: <p>
1.301 jose 1164:
1.247 jufi 1165: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1166:
1.228 horacio 1167: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1168: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1169:
1.247 jufi 1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1171: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1172: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1173: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1174: </strong></font><br>
1175: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1176: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1177: <p>
1178:
1.247 jufi 1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1180: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1181: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1182: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1183: </strong></font><br>
1184: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1185: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1186: <p>
1187:
1.247 jufi 1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1189: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1190: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1191: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1192: </strong></font><br>
1193: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1194: on the desktop of his parents.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.247 jufi 1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1198: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1199: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1200: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1201: </strong></font><br>
1202: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1203: using IPFilter.
1204:
1205: <p>
1206:
1.247 jufi 1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1208: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1209: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1210: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1211: </strong></font><br>
1212: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1213: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1214: perspectives of the four OS.
1215: <br>
1216: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1217: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1218: <p>
1219:
1.247 jufi 1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1221: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1222: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1223: software and security</a>,
1224: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1225: </strong></font><br>
1226:
1227: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1228: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1229: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1230: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1231: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1232: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1233: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1234: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1235: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1236: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1237: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1238: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1239: <p>
1.247 jufi 1240: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1241:
1.225 horacio 1242: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1243: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1244:
1.247 jufi 1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1246: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1247: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1248: Interview</a>,
1249: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1250: </strong></font><br>
1251:
1252: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1253: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1254: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1255: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1256: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1257: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1258: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1259: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1260: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1261: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1262: of choice.
1263: <p>
1.247 jufi 1264: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1265:
1266: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1267: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1268:
1.247 jufi 1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1270: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1271: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1272: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1273: </strong></font><br>
1274:
1275: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1276: <p>
1277:
1.247 jufi 1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1279: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1280: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1281: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1282: </strong></font><br>
1283:
1284: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1285: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1286: <p>
1.247 jufi 1287: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1288:
1.218 horacio 1289: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1290: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1291:
1.247 jufi 1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1293: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1294: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1295: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1296: </strong></font><br>
1297:
1298: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1299: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1300: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1301: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1302: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1303: subjects. Worth a read.
1304: <p>
1305:
1306:
1.247 jufi 1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1308: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1309: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1310: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1311: </strong></font><br>
1312:
1313: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1314: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1315: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1316: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1317: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1318: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1319: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1320: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1321: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1322: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1323: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1324: on other operating systems.<br>
1325: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1326: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1327: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1328: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1329: <p>
1330:
1.247 jufi 1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1332: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1333: Operating System 2010</a>,
1334: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1335: </strong></font><br>
1336:
1337: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1338: covering the level of software integration into the core
1339: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1340: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1341: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1342: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1343: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1344: <p>
1345:
1.247 jufi 1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1347: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1348: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1349: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1350: </strong></font><br>
1351:
1352: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1353: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1354: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1355: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1356: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1357: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1358: <p>
1.247 jufi 1359: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1360:
1.210 jufi 1361: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1362: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1363:
1.247 jufi 1364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1365: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1366: Already a Contender</a>,
1367: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1368: </strong></font><br>
1369:
1370: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1371: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1372: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1373: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1374: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1375: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1376: <p>
1377:
1.247 jufi 1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1379: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1380: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1381: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1382: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1383:
1.224 horacio 1384: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1385: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1386: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1387: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1388: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1389: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1390: <p>
1.247 jufi 1391: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1392:
1393: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1394: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1395:
1.247 jufi 1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1397: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1398: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1399: Division</a>,
1400: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1401: </strong></font><br>
1402:
1403: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1404: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1405: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1406: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1407: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1408: investment</em>.<br>
1409: The implementation details can be seen on their
1410: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1411: <p>
1412:
1.247 jufi 1413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1414: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1415: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1416: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1417: </strong></font><br>
1418:
1419: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1420: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1421: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1422: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1423: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1424: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1425: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1426: <p>
1427:
1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1429: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1430: Thinking about Security</a>,
1431: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1432: </strong></font><br>
1433:
1434: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1435: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1436: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1437: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1438: to time.<br>
1439: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1440: system and just the most secure system.
1441: <p>
1442:
1.247 jufi 1443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1444: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1445: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1446: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1447: </strong></font><br>
1448:
1449: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1450: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1451: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1452: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1453: choice:<br>
1454: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1455: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1456: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1457: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1458: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1459: network security devices and as such must be well
1460: armored."</em><br>
1461: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1462: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1463: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1464: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1465: <br>
1466: Bravo!
1467: <p>
1.247 jufi 1468: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1469:
1.207 ian 1470: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1471: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1472:
1.247 jufi 1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1474: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1475: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1476: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1477:
1.207 ian 1478: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1479: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1480: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1481: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1482: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1483: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1484: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1485: <p>
1.247 jufi 1486: </ul>
1.207 ian 1487:
1.194 jufi 1488: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1489: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1490:
1.247 jufi 1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1492: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1493: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1494: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1495: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1496:
1.240 miod 1497: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1498: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1499: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1500: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1501: <p>
1502:
1.247 jufi 1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1504: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1505: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1506: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1507:
1508: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1509: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1510: <p>
1511:
1512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1513: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1514: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1515: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1516:
1517: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1518: <p>
1519:
1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1521: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1522: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1523: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1524: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1525:
1.240 miod 1526: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1527: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1528: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1529: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1530: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1531: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1532: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1533: <br>
1534: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1535: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1536: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1537: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1538: <p>
1539:
1.247 jufi 1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1541: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1542: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1543: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1544: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1545:
1.194 jufi 1546: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1547: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1548: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1549: <br>
1550: The new
1551: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1552: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1553: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1554: <p>
1.247 jufi 1555: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1556:
1.190 horacio 1557: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1558: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1559:
1.247 jufi 1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1561:
1562: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1563: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1564:
1.301 jose 1565:
1.191 jufi 1566: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1567: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1568:
1569: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1570: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1571:
1.212 horacio 1572: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1573: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1574: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1575:
1.211 horacio 1576: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1577: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1578: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1579:
1.247 jufi 1580: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1581: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1582:
1.247 jufi 1583: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1584: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1585:
1.212 horacio 1586: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1587: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1588: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1589:
1590: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1591: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1592:
1593: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1594: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1595:
1.301 jose 1596: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1597: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1598:
1.191 jufi 1599: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1600: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1601:
1602: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1603: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1604:
1.192 jufi 1605: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1606: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1607: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1608:
1.193 deraadt 1609: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1610: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1611: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1612:
1.247 jufi 1613: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1614: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1615:
1.247 jufi 1616: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1617: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1618: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1619:
1.213 horacio 1620: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1621: 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 1622: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1623:
1.190 horacio 1624: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1625: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1626: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1627: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1628: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1629: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1630: <p>
1.190 horacio 1631:
1.247 jufi 1632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1633: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1634: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1635: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1636: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1637:
1.195 jufi 1638: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1639: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1640: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1641: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1642: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1643: <p>
1644:
1.247 jufi 1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1646: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1647: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1648: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1649: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1650:
1.191 jufi 1651: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1652: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1653: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1654: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1655: <p>
1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1658: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1659: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1660: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1661:
1662: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1663: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1664: <p>
1.247 jufi 1665: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1666:
1.191 jufi 1667:
1.186 jufi 1668: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1669: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1672: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1673: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1674: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1675: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1676:
1.188 jufi 1677: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1678: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1679: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1680: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1681: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1682: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1683: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1684: <p>
1685:
1.301 jose 1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1687: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1688: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1689: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1690:
1691: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1692: <p>
1.191 jufi 1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1695: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1696: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1697: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1698: </strong></font><br>
1699:
1700: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1701: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1702: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1703: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1704: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1705: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1706: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1707: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1708: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1709: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1710: familiar?
1711: <p>
1.247 jufi 1712: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1713:
1.178 louis 1714: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1715: <ul>
1.178 louis 1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1718: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1719: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1720: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1724: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1725: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1726: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1727: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1728: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1729: <p>
1730:
1.247 jufi 1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1732: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1733: Open source under the hood</a>,
1734: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1735: </strong></font><br>
1736:
1737: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1738: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1739: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1740: <p>
1741:
1.247 jufi 1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1743: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1744: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1745: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1746: </strong></font><br>
1747:
1748: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1749: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1750: <p>
1.247 jufi 1751: </ul>
1.179 louis 1752:
1.174 louis 1753:
1.175 louis 1754: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1755: <ul>
1.175 louis 1756:
1.247 jufi 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1758: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1759: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1760: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1761: </strong></font><br>
1762:
1763: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1764: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1765: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1766: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1767: <p>
1768:
1.247 jufi 1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1770: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1771: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1772: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1773: </strong></font><br>
1774:
1775: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1776: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1777: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1778: <p>
1.247 jufi 1779: </ul>
1.175 louis 1780:
1.176 louis 1781:
1.172 mickey 1782: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1783: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1784:
1.247 jufi 1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1786: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1787: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1788: </strong></font><br>
1789:
1790: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1791: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1792: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1793: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1794: <p>
1795:
1.247 jufi 1796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1797: <a
1.269 deraadt 1798: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1799: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1800: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1801: </strong></font><br>
1802:
1803: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1804: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1805: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1806: <p>
1807:
1.247 jufi 1808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1809: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1810: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1811: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1812: </strong></font><br>
1813:
1814: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1815: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1816: <p>
1817:
1.247 jufi 1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1819: <a
1.269 deraadt 1820: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1821: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1822: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1823: </strong></font><br>
1824:
1825: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1826: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1827: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1828: our own Theo de Raadt.
1829: <p>
1830:
1.247 jufi 1831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1832: <a
1.269 deraadt 1833: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1834: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1835: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1836: </strong></font><br>
1837:
1838: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1839: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1840: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1841: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1842: shut down.]
1843: <p>
1844:
1.247 jufi 1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1846: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1847: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1848: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1849: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1850: </strong></font><br>
1851:
1852: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1853: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1854: <p>
1.247 jufi 1855: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1856:
1.161 louis 1857: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1858: <ul>
1.161 louis 1859:
1.247 jufi 1860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1861: <a
1.269 deraadt 1862: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1863: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1864: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1865: </strong></font><br>
1866:
1867: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1868: by John Wolley
1869: <p>
1870:
1.247 jufi 1871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1872: <a
1.269 deraadt 1873: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1874: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1875: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1876: </strong></font><br>
1877:
1878: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1879: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1880: OpenBSD).
1881: <p>
1882:
1.247 jufi 1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1884: <a
1.247 jufi 1885: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1886: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1887: </strong></font><br>
1888:
1889: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1890: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1891: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1892: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1893: and hindsight.
1894: <p>
1895:
1.247 jufi 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1897: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1898: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1899: </strong></font><br>
1900:
1901: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1902: <p>
1903:
1.247 jufi 1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1905: <a
1.168 provos 1906: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1907: December 7, 2000
1908: </strong></font><br>
1909:
1910: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1911: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1912: us explain.
1913: <p>
1914:
1.247 jufi 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1916: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1917: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1918: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1919: December 6, 2000
1920: </strong></font><br>
1921:
1922: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1923: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1924: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1925: <p>
1926:
1.247 jufi 1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1928: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1929: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1930: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1931: </strong></font><br>
1932:
1933: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1934: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1935: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1936: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1937: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1938: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1939: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1940: <p>
1941:
1942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1943: <a
1.226 horacio 1944: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1945: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1946: </strong></font><br>
1947:
1948: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1949: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1950: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1951: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1952: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1953: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1954: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1955: <p>
1.162 millert 1956:
1.247 jufi 1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1958: <a
1.161 louis 1959: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1960: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1961: </strong></font><br>
1962:
1963: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1964: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1965: <p>
1966:
1.247 jufi 1967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1968: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1969: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1973: <p>
1974:
1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1977: <a
1.226 horacio 1978: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1979: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1980: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1981: </strong></font><br>
1982:
1983: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1984: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1985: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1986: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1987: <p>
1.247 jufi 1988: </ul>
1.169 louis 1989:
1.158 louis 1990: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1991: <ul>
1.147 louis 1992:
1.247 jufi 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1994: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1995: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1996: </strong></font><br>
1997:
1998: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1999: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2000: <p>
2001:
1.247 jufi 2002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2003: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2004: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2005: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2006: </strong></font><br>
2007: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2008: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2009: <p>
2010:
1.247 jufi 2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2012: <a
2013: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2014: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2015: </strong></font><br>
2016:
2017: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2018: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2019: <p>
2020:
1.247 jufi 2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2022: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2023: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2024: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2025:
1.213 horacio 2026: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 2027: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
2028: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2029: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2030: <p>
1.215 horacio 2031:
1.247 jufi 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2033: <a
2034: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2035: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2036: </strong></font><br>
2037:
2038: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2039: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2040: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2041: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2042: much of the attitude too).
2043: <p>
1.161 louis 2044:
1.247 jufi 2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2046: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2047: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2048: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2049:
1.157 louis 2050: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2051: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2052: <p>
1.247 jufi 2053: </ul>
1.157 louis 2054:
2055: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2056: <ul>
1.157 louis 2057:
1.247 jufi 2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2059: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2060: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2061: </strong></font><br>
2062:
2063: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2064: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2065: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2066: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2067: <p>
2068:
1.247 jufi 2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2070: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2071: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2072: </strong></font><br>
2073:
2074: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2075: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2076: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2077: it because they love coding...
2078: <p>
2079:
1.247 jufi 2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2081: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2082: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2083: </strong></font><br>
2084:
2085: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2086: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2087: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2088: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2089: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2090: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2091: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2092: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2093: <p>
2094:
1.247 jufi 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2096: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2097: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2098: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2099: </strong></font><br>
2100:
2101: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2102: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2103: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2104: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2105: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2106: the pizza.
2107: <p>
2108:
1.247 jufi 2109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2110: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2111: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2112: </strong></font><br>
2113:
2114: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2115: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2116: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2117: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2118: problems.
2119: <p>
2120:
1.247 jufi 2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2122: <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 2123: </strong></font><br>
2124:
1.222 miod 2125: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2126: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2127: - whether they like it or not.
2128: <p>
2129:
1.247 jufi 2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2131: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2132: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2133: </strong></font><br>
2134:
2135: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2136: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2137: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2138: <p>
1.148 aaron 2139:
1.247 jufi 2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2141: <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 2142: </strong></font><br>
2143:
2144: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2145: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2146: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2147: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2148: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2149: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2150: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2151: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2152: <p>
2153:
1.247 jufi 2154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2155: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2156: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2157: </strong></font><br>
2158:
2159: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2160: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2161: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2162: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2163: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2164: <p>
1.247 jufi 2165: </ul>
1.147 louis 2166:
1.138 louis 2167: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2168: <ul>
1.138 louis 2169:
1.247 jufi 2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2171: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2172: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2173: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2174: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2175: </strong></font><br>
2176:
1.227 horacio 2177: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2178: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2179: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2180: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2181: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2182: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2183: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2184: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2185: <p>
2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2188: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2189: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2190: </strong></font><br>
2191:
2192: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2193: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2194: groups, and even Linux.
2195: <p>
2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2198: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2199: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2200: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2201: </strong></font><br>
2202:
2203: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2204: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2205: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2206: library after installing the OS.
2207: <p>
2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2210: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2211: Sys Admin, September 2000
2212: </strong></font><br>
2213:
2214: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2215: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2216: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2217: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2218: (<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>,
2219: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2220: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2221: <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 2222: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2223: out of the system.
2224: <p>
2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2227: <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
2228: </strong></font><br>
2229:
2230: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2231: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2232: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2233: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2234: the IP filtering and address translation.
2235: <p>
1.301 jose 2236:
2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2238: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2239: </strong></font><br>
2240:
2241: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2242: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2243: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2244: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2245: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2246: <p>
1.247 jufi 2247: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2248:
1.131 louis 2249: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2250: <ul>
1.131 louis 2251:
1.247 jufi 2252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2253: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2254: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2255: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2256: </strong></font><br>
2257:
2258: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2259: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2260: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2261: <p>
2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2264: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2265: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2266: </strong></font><br>
2267:
2268: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2269: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2270: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2271: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2272: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2273: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2274: note of"</i>.
2275: <p>
2276:
1.247 jufi 2277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2278: <a
1.247 jufi 2279: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2280: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2281: </strong></font><br>
2282:
2283: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2284: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2285: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2286: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2287: <p>
2288:
1.247 jufi 2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2290: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2291: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2292: </strong></font><br>
2293:
2294: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2295: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2296: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2297: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2298: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2299: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2300: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2301: <p>
2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2304: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2305: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2306: 2000
2307: </strong></font><br>
2308:
2309: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2310: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2311: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2312: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2313: against current industry practices.
2314: <p>
2315:
1.247 jufi 2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2317: <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
2318: </strong></font><br>
2319:
2320: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2321: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2322: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2323: <p>
2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2326: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2327: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2328: </strong></font><br>
2329:
2330: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2331: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2332: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2333: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2334: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2335: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2336: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2337: <p>
2338:
1.247 jufi 2339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2340: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2341: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2342: </strong></font><br>
2343:
2344: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2345: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2346: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2347: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2348: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2349: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2350: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2351: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2352: <p>
1.247 jufi 2353: </ul>
1.131 louis 2354:
1.118 louis 2355: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2356: <ul>
1.118 louis 2357:
1.247 jufi 2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2359: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2360: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2364: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2365: about time. The article mentions that
2366: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2367: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2368: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2369: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2370: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2371: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2372: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2373: <p>
2374:
1.247 jufi 2375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2376: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2377: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2378: </strong></font><br>
2379:
2380: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2381: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2382: of OpenSSH.
2383: <p>
2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2386: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2387: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2388: </strong></font><br>
2389:
2390: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2391: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2392: bridging.
2393: <p>
2394:
1.247 jufi 2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2396: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2397: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2398: </strong></font><br>
2399:
1.121 deraadt 2400: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2401: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2402: <p>
2403:
1.247 jufi 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2405: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2406: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2407: </strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.247 jufi 2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2413: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2414: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2415: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
1.120 deraadt 2418: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2419: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2420: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2421: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2422: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2423: <p>
2424:
1.247 jufi 2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2426: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2427: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2428: </strong></font><br>
2429:
1.222 miod 2430: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2431: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2432: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2433: protocols and their quirks.
2434: <p>
2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2437: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2438: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2439: </strong></font><br>
2440:
2441: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2442: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2443: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2444: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2445: <p>
2446:
1.247 jufi 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2448: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2449: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2450: </strong></font><br>
2451:
2452: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2453: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2454: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2455: <p>
2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2458: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2459: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2460: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2461: </strong></font><br>
2462:
2463: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2464: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2465: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2466: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2467: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2468: <p>
1.247 jufi 2469: </ul>
1.118 louis 2470:
1.104 louis 2471: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2472: <ul>
1.104 louis 2473:
1.247 jufi 2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2475: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2476: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2477: </strong></font><br>
2478:
2479: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2480: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2481: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2482: be a bit dry.
2483: <p>
2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2486: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2487: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2488: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2489: </strong></font><br>
2490: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2491: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2492: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2493: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2494: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2495: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2496: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2497: <p>
2498:
1.247 jufi 2499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2500: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2501: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2502: 2000
1.128 louis 2503: </strong></font><br>
2504:
2505: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2506: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2507: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2508: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2509: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2510: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2511: <p>
2512:
1.247 jufi 2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2514: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2515: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2516: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2517:
2518: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2519: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2520: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2521: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2522: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2523: <p>
1.110 louis 2524:
1.247 jufi 2525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2526: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2527: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2528: </strong></font><br>
2529:
2530: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2531: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2532: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2533: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2534: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2535: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2536: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2537: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2538: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2539: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2540: <p>
2541:
1.247 jufi 2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2543: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2544: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2545:
2546: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2547: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2548: <p>
1.108 louis 2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2551: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2552: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2553: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2554:
2555: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2556: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2557: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2558: <p>
1.106 louis 2559:
1.247 jufi 2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2561: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2562: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2563: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2564:
2565: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2566: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2567: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2568: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2569: <p>
1.107 louis 2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2572: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2573: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2574: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2575:
2576: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2577: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2578: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2579: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2580: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2581: <p>
1.105 louis 2582:
1.247 jufi 2583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2584: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2585: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2586: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2587:
1.113 naddy 2588: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2589: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2590: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2591: <p>
1.104 louis 2592:
1.247 jufi 2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2594: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2595: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2596: </strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2599: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2600: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2601: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2602: <p>
1.301 jose 2603:
2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2605: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2606: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2607: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2608:
2609: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2610: hardware-supported cryptography.
2611: <p>
1.247 jufi 2612: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2613:
1.85 louis 2614: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2615: <ul>
1.85 louis 2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2618: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2619: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2620: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2621:
2622: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2623: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2624: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2625: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2626: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2627: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2628: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2629: <p>
1.99 louis 2630:
1.247 jufi 2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2632: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2633: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2634: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2635:
2636: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2637: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2638: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2639: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2640: <p>
1.100 louis 2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2643: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2644: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2645: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2646:
2647: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2648: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2649: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2650: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2651: <p>
1.95 louis 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2654: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2655: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2656: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2657:
2658: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2659: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2660: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2661: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2662: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2663: <p>
1.92 louis 2664:
1.247 jufi 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2666: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2667: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2668: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2669:
2670: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2671: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2672: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2673: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2674: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2675: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2676: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2677: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2678: <p>
1.91 louis 2679:
1.247 jufi 2680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2681: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2682: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2683: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2684:
2685: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2686: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2687: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2688: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2689: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2690: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2691: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2692: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2693: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2694: <p>
1.90 louis 2695:
1.247 jufi 2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2697: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2698: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2699: </strong></font><br>
2700: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2701: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2702: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2703: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2704: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2705: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2709: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2710: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2711: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2712:
1.113 naddy 2713: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2714: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2715: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2716: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2717: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2718: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2719: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2720: <p>
1.87 louis 2721:
1.247 jufi 2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2723: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2724: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2725: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2726:
2727: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2728: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2729: <p>
1.85 louis 2730:
1.247 jufi 2731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2732: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2733: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2734: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2735:
2736: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2737: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2738: <p>
2739:
2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2741: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2742: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2743: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2744:
2745: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2746: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2747: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2748: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2749: <p>
1.89 louis 2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2752: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2753: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2754: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2755:
2756: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2757: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2758: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2759: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2760: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2761: </ul>
1.85 louis 2762:
1.78 deraadt 2763: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2764: <ul>
1.74 louis 2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2767: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2768: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2769: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2770: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2771:
2772: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2773: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2774: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2775: <p>
1.83 louis 2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2778: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2779: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2780: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2781:
2782: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2783: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2784: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2785: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2786: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2787: <p>
1.93 louis 2788:
1.247 jufi 2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2790: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2791: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2792: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2793: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2794:
1.83 louis 2795: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2796: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2797: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2798: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2799: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2800: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2801: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2802: <p>
1.82 aaron 2803:
1.247 jufi 2804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2805: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2806: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2807: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2808:
1.83 louis 2809: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2810: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2811: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2812: <p>
1.80 louis 2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2815: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2816: Bad Press</a>,
2817: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2818: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2819:
2820: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2821: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2822: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2823: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2824: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2825: <p>
1.247 jufi 2826: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2827:
2828: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2829: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2830:
1.247 jufi 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2832: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2833: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2834: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2835: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2836:
2837: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2838: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2839: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2840: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2841: <p>
1.74 louis 2842:
1.247 jufi 2843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2844: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2845: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2846: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2847:
1.219 horacio 2848: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2849: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2850: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2851: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2852: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2853: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2854: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2855: <p>
1.88 louis 2856:
1.247 jufi 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2858: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2859: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2860: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2861:
2862: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2863: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2864: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2865: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2866: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2867: <p>
1.81 louis 2868:
1.247 jufi 2869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2870: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2871: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2872: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2873:
2874: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2875: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2876: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2877: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2878: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2879: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2880: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2881: <p>
1.90 louis 2882:
1.247 jufi 2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2884: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2885: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2886: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2887:
2888: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2889: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2890: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2891: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2892: <p>
1.247 jufi 2893: </ul>
1.71 louis 2894:
1.69 deraadt 2895: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2896: <ul>
1.70 louis 2897:
1.247 jufi 2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2899: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2900: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2901: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2902:
2903: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2904: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2905: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2906: <p>
1.70 louis 2907:
1.247 jufi 2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2909: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2910: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2911: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2912:
2913: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2914: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2915: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2916: <p>
1.68 louis 2917:
1.247 jufi 2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2919: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2920: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2921: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2922: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2923:
1.111 jufi 2924: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2925: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2926: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2927: "secure by default" installation.
2928: <p>
1.64 louis 2929:
1.247 jufi 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2931: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2932: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2933: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2934:
1.113 naddy 2935: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2936: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2937: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2938: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2939: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2940: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2941: <p>
1.66 louis 2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2944: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2945: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2946: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2947:
2948: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2949: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2950: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2951: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2952: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2953: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2954: <p>
1.83 louis 2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2957: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2958: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2959: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2960:
2961: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2962: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2963: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2964: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2965: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2966: <p>
1.64 louis 2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2969: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2970: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2971: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2972:
2973: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2974: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2975: <p>
1.301 jose 2976:
2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2978: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2979: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2980: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2981: </strong></font><br>
2982:
2983: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2984: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2985: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2986: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2987: Giving way to
2988: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2989: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2990: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2991: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2992: <p>
1.247 jufi 2993: </ul>
1.65 louis 2994:
1.69 deraadt 2995: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2996: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2999: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3000: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3001: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3002:
3003: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3004: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3005: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3006: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3007: <p>
1.88 louis 3008:
1.247 jufi 3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3010: <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 3011: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3012:
3013: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3014: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3015: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3016: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3017: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3018: <p>
1.60 louis 3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3021: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
3022: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3023: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3024: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3025:
3026: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3027: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3028: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3029: <p>
1.58 louis 3030:
1.247 jufi 3031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3032: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3033: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3034:
3035: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3036: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3037: <p>
1.53 louis 3038:
1.247 jufi 3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3040: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3041: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3042: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3043:
3044: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3045: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3046: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3047: <p>
1.99 louis 3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3050: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3051: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3052:
3053: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3054: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3055: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3056: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3057: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3058:
1.247 jufi 3059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3060: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3061: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3062: </strong></font><br>
3063:
3064: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3065: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3066: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3067: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3068: <p>
3069:
1.247 jufi 3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3071: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3072: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3073: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3074:
3075: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3076: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3077: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3078:
1.247 jufi 3079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3080: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3081: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3082:
3083: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3084: in
1.247 jufi 3085: <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 3086: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3087: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3088: <p>
1.53 louis 3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3091: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3092: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3093: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3094: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3095:
1.58 louis 3096: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3097: <p>
1.301 jose 3098:
3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3100: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3101: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3102: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3103: Informacyjny, January 2000
3104: </strong></font><br>
3105:
3106: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3107: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3108: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3109: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3110: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3111: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3112: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3113: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3114: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3115: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3117: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3118: <p>
3119:
3120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3121: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3122: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3123: </strong></font><br>
3124:
3125: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3126: <p>
3127: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3128:
1.69 deraadt 3129: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3130: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3133: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3134: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3135: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3136: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3137:
1.58 louis 3138: Kurt Seifried
3139: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3140: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3141: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3142: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3143:
1.247 jufi 3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3145: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3146: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3147: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3148:
3149: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3150: <p>
1.96 louis 3151:
1.247 jufi 3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3153: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3154: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3155: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3156: </strong></font><br>
3157:
3158: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3159: <p>
3160:
3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3162: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3163: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3164: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3165:
3166: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3167: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3168: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3169: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3170: <p>
1.247 jufi 3171: </ul>
1.86 louis 3172:
1.69 deraadt 3173: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3174: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3177: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3178: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3179: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3180:
3181: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3182: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3183: <p>
1.61 louis 3184:
1.247 jufi 3185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3186: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3187: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3188: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3189: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3190:
3191: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3192: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3193: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3194: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3195: right -- or at least strives to".
3196: <p>
1.48 louis 3197:
1.247 jufi 3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3199: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3200: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3201: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3202: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3203: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3204: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3205: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3206: <p>
1.61 louis 3207:
1.247 jufi 3208: <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 3209: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3210: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3211:
3212: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3213: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3214: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3215: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3216: <p>
1.46 louis 3217:
1.247 jufi 3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3219: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3220: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3221: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3222:
3223: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3224: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3225: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3226:
1.247 jufi 3227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3228: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3229: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3230: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3231:
3232: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3233: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3234: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3235: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3236: <p>
1.247 jufi 3237: </ul>
1.70 louis 3238:
1.69 deraadt 3239: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3240: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3243: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3244: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3245: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3246: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3247:
3248: Kurt Seifried
3249: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3250: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3251: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3252: <p>
1.44 philen 3253:
1.247 jufi 3254: <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 3255: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3256: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3257:
3258: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3259: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3260:
1.247 jufi 3261: <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 3262: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3263: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3264:
3265: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3266: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <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 3269: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3270: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3271:
3272: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3273: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3274: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3275: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3276: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3277:
1.247 jufi 3278: <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 3279: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3280: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3281:
1.36 louis 3282: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3283: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3284:
1.247 jufi 3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3286: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3287: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3289:
3290: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3291: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3292: </ul>
1.38 louis 3293:
1.69 deraadt 3294: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3295: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3296:
1.247 jufi 3297: <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 3298: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3299: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3300:
3301: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3302: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3303: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3304:
1.113 naddy 3305: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3306: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3307: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3308: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3309:
3310: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3311: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3312: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3313: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3314: <blockquote>
3315: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3316: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3317: <br>
3318: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3319: </code>
3320: </blockquote>
3321: <p>
3322:
1.247 jufi 3323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3324: <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 3325: <p>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3328: <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 3329: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3330:
3331: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3332: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3333: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3334: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3335:
1.247 jufi 3336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3337: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3338: Sept. 28, 1999
3339: </strong></font><br>
3340:
3341: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3342: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3343: translating and reprinting articles from
3344: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3345: <p>
3346:
3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3348: <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 3349: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3350:
3351: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3352: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3353: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3354: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3355: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3356: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3357: <p>
1.19 louis 3358:
1.113 naddy 3359: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3360: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3361: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3362:
3363: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3364: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3365: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3366: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3367: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3368: <p>
1.16 louis 3369:
1.247 jufi 3370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3371: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3372: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3373: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3374:
1.57 louis 3375: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3376: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3377: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3378: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3379:
1.247 jufi 3380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3381: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3382: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3383: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3384:
1.113 naddy 3385: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3386:
1.247 jufi 3387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3388: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3389: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3390: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3391:
1.23 louis 3392: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3393: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3394: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3395: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3396: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3397: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3398:
1.247 jufi 3399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3400: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3401: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3402: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3403:
1.199 pvalchev 3404: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3405: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3406: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3407: installation.
1.113 naddy 3408: <p>
1.47 louis 3409:
1.247 jufi 3410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3411: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3412: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3413: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3414:
1.301 jose 3415: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3416: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3417: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3418: </ul>
1.57 louis 3419:
1.69 deraadt 3420: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3421: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3422:
1.247 jufi 3423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3424: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3425: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3426: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3427:
3428: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3429: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3430: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3431: <p>
1.12 louis 3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3434: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3435: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3436: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3437:
3438: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3439: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3440: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3441: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3442: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3443: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3444: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3445: <p>
1.247 jufi 3446: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3447:
1.69 deraadt 3448: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3449: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3452: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3453: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3454:
3455: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3456: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3457: available."
1.113 naddy 3458: <p>
1.301 jose 3459:
3460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3461: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3462: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3463: </strong></font><br>
3464:
3465: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3466: <p>
1.247 jufi 3467: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3468:
1.69 deraadt 3469: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3470: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3473: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3474: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3475:
3476: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3477: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3478: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3479: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3480: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3481: <p>
1.33 louis 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3484: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3485: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3486: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3487:
1.113 naddy 3488: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3489: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3490: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3491: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3492: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3493: <p>
1.247 jufi 3494: </ul>
1.57 louis 3495:
1.69 deraadt 3496: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3497: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3498:
1.247 jufi 3499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3500: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3501: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3502: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3503:
3504: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3505: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3506: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3507:
1.247 jufi 3508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3509: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3510: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3511: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3512: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3513:
3514: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3515: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3518: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3519:
1.113 naddy 3520: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3521:
1.247 jufi 3522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3523: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3524: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3525: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3526:
3527: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3528: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3529: </ul>
1.23 louis 3530:
1.69 deraadt 3531: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3532: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3533:
1.247 jufi 3534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3535: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3536: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3537:
3538: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3539: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3540: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3541:
1.247 jufi 3542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3543: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3544: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3545: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3546:
3547: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3548: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3549: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3550: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3551: </ul>
1.57 louis 3552:
1.69 deraadt 3553: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3554: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3555:
1.247 jufi 3556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3557: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3558: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3559: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3560:
3561: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3562: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3563: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3564: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3565: <p>
1.15 louis 3566:
1.247 jufi 3567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3568: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3569: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3570: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3571:
3572: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3573: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3574: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3575: columns."
1.113 naddy 3576: <p>
1.247 jufi 3577: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3578:
1.69 deraadt 3579: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3580: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3581:
1.247 jufi 3582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3583: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3584: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3585: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3586:
3587: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3588: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3589:
1.113 naddy 3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3591: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3592: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3593:
3594: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3595: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3596: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3597: </ul>
1.57 louis 3598:
1.69 deraadt 3599: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3600: <ul>
1.301 jose 3601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3602: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3603: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3604: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3605:
3606: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3607: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3608: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3609: <p>
3610:
3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3612: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3613: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3614: Nov 13, 1998 and
3615: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3616: Datateknik</a>,
3617: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3618:
3619: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3620: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3621: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3622: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3623: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3624:
1.113 naddy 3625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3626: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3627: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3628: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3629:
1.222 miod 3630: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3631: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3632: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3633: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3634: <p>
1.247 jufi 3635: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3636:
1.69 deraadt 3637: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3638: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3641: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3642: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3643:
1.69 deraadt 3644: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3645: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3646: <p>
1.247 jufi 3647: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3648:
1.69 deraadt 3649: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3650: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3653: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3654: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3655: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3656:
3657: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3658: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3659: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3662: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3663: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3664: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3665: <p>
1.247 jufi 3666: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3667:
1.69 deraadt 3668: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3669: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3670:
1.247 jufi 3671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3672: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3673: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3674: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3675: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3676: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3677:
3678: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3679: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3680: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3681: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3682: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3683: <p>
1.247 jufi 3684: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3685:
3686: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3687: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3688:
1.247 jufi 3689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3690: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3691: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3692:
1.69 deraadt 3693: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3694: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3695: <p>
1.112 naddy 3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3698: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3699:
1.292 camield 3700: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3701: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3702: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.1 deraadt 3704:
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