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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>
1.360 jose 23: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
24: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
25: Software Development Online,
26: June, 2003.
27: </strong></font><br>
28: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
29: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
30: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
31: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
32: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
33: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
34: current activities.
35: <p>
36:
37: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 38: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
39: </strong></font><br>
1.361 ! henning 40: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
! 41: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
! 42: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
! 43: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
! 44: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
! 45: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
! 46: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
! 47: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
! 48: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and it's effects - basically
! 49: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
! 50: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
! 51: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
! 52: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
! 53: decisions.
! 54: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
! 55: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
! 56: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
! 57: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 61: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
62: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
63: Page 58, eWeek,
64: June 2, 2003.
65: </strong></font><br>
66: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
67: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
68: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
69: been addressed in -current.
70: <p>
71:
1.356 jose 72: </ul>
73:
74: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
75: <ul>
76:
1.355 jose 77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 78: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
79: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
80: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
81: </strong></font><br>
82: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
83: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
84: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
85: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
86: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
87: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
88: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 92: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
93: Beyond Linux</a>,
94: InfoWorld,
95: May 23, 2003.
96: </strong></font><br>
97: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
98: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
99: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
100: compared to the GPL.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 104: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
105: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
106: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 107: May 17, 2003.
108: </strong></font><br>
109: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
110: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
111: the business section and half of another page inside
112: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
113: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
114: in talking about the project's history and goals.
115: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
116: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
117: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
118: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 119: <br>
120: This article can also be found online at:
121: <ul>
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
123: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
124: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
125: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
126: May 17, 2003
127: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 128: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
130: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
131: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
132: Montreal Gazette,
133: May 21, 2003
134: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 135: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 136: <p>
1.346 ian 137:
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 139: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 140: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 141: May 7, 2003.
142: </strong></font><br>
143: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
144: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
145: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
146: <p>
147:
148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 149: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
150: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
151: OsOpinion,
152: May 6, 2003.
153: </strong></font><br>
154: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
155: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
156: <br>
157: This article can also be found online at:
158: <ul>
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
160: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
161: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
162: NewsFactor Network.
163: </strong></font>
164: </ul>
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 168: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 169: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
170: ITBusiness,
171: May 2, 2003.
172: </strong></font><br>
173: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
174: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
175: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
176: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
177: <p>
178:
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 180: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
181: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
182: InfoWorld,
183: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 184: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 185: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
186: <br>
187: This article can also be found online at:
188: <ul>
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
190: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
191: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
192: IDG Singapore.
193: </strong></font>
194: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 195: <p>
196:
1.339 jose 197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
198: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
199: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 200: ZDNet,
201: May 1, 2003.
202: </strong></font><br>
203: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 204: someone using parts from previous articles.
205: <br>
1.341 deraadt 206: This article can also be found online at:
207: <ul>
208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
209: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
210: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
211: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 212: </strong></font>
213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
214: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
215: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
216: CNET News.com.
217: </strong></font>
218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
219: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
220: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
221: ZDNet UK.
222: </strong></font>
223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
224: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
225: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
226: Help Net Security, Croatia.
227: </strong></font>
228: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 229: <p>
1.339 jose 230:
1.341 deraadt 231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 232: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 233: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
234: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
235: May 1, 2003.
236: </strong></font><br>
237: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
238: that have been added
239: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
240: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
241: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 242: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 243: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
244: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
245: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 246: <p>
247:
248: </ul>
249:
1.253 ian 250: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
251: <ul>
1.255 ian 252:
1.260 ian 253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 254: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 255: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
256: TechRepublic,
257: April 28, 2003.
258: </strong></font><br>
259: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
260: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 261: work.<br>
262: Can also be found online at:
263: <ul>
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
265: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
266: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
267: ZDNet UK.
268: </strong></font>
269: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 273: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
274: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
275: IDG,
276: April 24, 2003.
277: </strong></font><br>
278: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
279: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
280: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
281: Can also be found online at:
282: <ul>
283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
284: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
285: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 286: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 287: </strong></font>
288: </ul>
289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
292: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 293: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 294: Slate,
295: April 24, 2003.
296: </strong></font><br>
297: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
298: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
299: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
300: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
301: <p>
302:
303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 304: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
305: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
306: April 24, 2003.
307: </strong></font><br>
308: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
309: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
310: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
311: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 315: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
316: April 24, 2003.
317: </strong></font><br>
318: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
319: the free software community".
320: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
321: other articles.
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 325: <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 326: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
327: </strong></font><br>
328: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
329: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
330: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
331: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
332: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
333: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
334: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
335: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
336: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
337: <br/>
338: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
339: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
340: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
341: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 342: <br>
343: Can also be found online at:
344: <ul>
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
346: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
347: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
348: Common Dreams NewsCenter
349: </strong></font>
350: </ul>
1.324 ian 351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
354: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
355: Wired, April 24, 2003.
356: </strong></font><br>
357: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
358: article above.
359: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
360: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
361: wasting them."
1.332 ian 362: <br>
363: Can also be found online at:
364: <ul>
365: <li>
366: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
367: </strong></font>
368: </ul>
1.324 ian 369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 372: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
373: </strong></font><br>
374: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
375: <p>
376:
377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 378: <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.
379: </strong></font><br>
380: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
381: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
382: <p>
383:
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 385: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
386: April 23, 2003.
387: </strong></font><br>
388: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 392: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 393: April 22, 2003.
394: </strong></font><br>
395: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
396: <p>
397:
398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 399: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
400: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
401: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 402: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 403: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
404: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
405: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
406: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
407: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
408: Can also be found online at:
409: <ul>
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
411: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 412: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
413: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 414: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
416: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 417: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
418: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 419: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 420: </ul>
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 424: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
425: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 426: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 427: </strong></font><br>
428: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 429: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
430: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
431: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
432: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
433: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
434: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 435: <p>
436:
437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 438: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
439: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 440: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
441: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 442: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
443: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
444: at UPenn and DARPA.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 448: [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,
449: France
1.315 deraadt 450: April 18, 2003.
451: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 452: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 453: <p>
454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 456: [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 457: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 458: </strong></font><br>
459: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 463: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
464: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
465: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 466: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 467: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
468: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
469: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
470: <p>
471:
472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 473: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
474: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 475: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 476: </strong></font><br>
477: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
478: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
479: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 480: American century.
1.267 deraadt 481: <p>
482:
483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 484: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
485: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 486: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 487: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 488: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
489: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
490: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
491: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
492: Can also be found online at:
493: <ul>
494: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
495: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 496: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 497: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 498: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 502: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 503: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 504: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 505: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 506: </strong></font><br>
507: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 508: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
509: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
510: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
511: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
514: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
515: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
516: New York Times.
517: </strong></font>(free registration required)
518:
1.273 deraadt 519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
520: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 521: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 522: ABC News.
523: </strong></font>
524:
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 526: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 527: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 528: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 529: </strong></font>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 532: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 533: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 534: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 535: </strong></font>
536:
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 538: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
539: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 540: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 541: </strong></font>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 544: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 545: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 546: Times Daily, AL.
547: </strong></font>
548:
549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
550: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
551: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
552: Boston.com, MA.
553: </strong></font>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 556: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 557: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 558: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
559: </strong></font>
560:
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 562: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
563: [Article was pulled]</a>
564: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 565: </strong></font>
566:
567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
568: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
569: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
570: Infoshop News.
571: </strong></font>
572:
573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
574: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
575: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
576: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
577: </strong></font>
578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 580: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
581: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
582: Raleigh News, NC.
583: </strong></font>
584:
585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 586: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 587: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
588: Napa News, CA.
589: </strong></font>
590:
591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 592: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 593: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
594: NEPA News, PA.
595: </strong></font>
596:
597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
598: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
599: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
600: Wired News.
601: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 602: <br>
603: <li>
1.333 deraadt 604: <font color="#009000"><strong>
605: [JAPANESE]
606: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
607: Wired News Japan</a>
608: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 609:
1.271 deraadt 610: </ul>
611: <p>
1.272 deraadt 612: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
613: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 614: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
615: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
616: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
617: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
618: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
619: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 620: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 621: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
622: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
623: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 624: <p>
625: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 626:
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 628: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 629: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
630: Indianapolis Star, IN.
631: </strong></font>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 634: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
635: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
636: Miami Herald, FL.
637: </strong></font>
638:
639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 640: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 641: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
642: </strong></font>
643:
644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
645: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 646: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 647: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 648: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 649:
650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
651: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
652: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
653: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
654: ABC News.
655: </strong></font>
656:
1.276 deraadt 657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
658: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 659: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 660: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 661: </strong></font>
662:
1.286 dhartmei 663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 664: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 665: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
666: Wilmington Star, NC.
667: </strong></font>
668:
1.300 jose 669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
670: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
671: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
672: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
673: </strong></font>
674:
1.309 jose 675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
676: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
677: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
678: Globe Technology.
679: </strong></font>
680:
1.263 deraadt 681: </ul>
1.262 beck 682: <p>
683:
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 685: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
686: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 687: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 688: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 689: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 690: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
691: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
692: <p>
693:
694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 695: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
696: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
697: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 698: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 699: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
700: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
701: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
702: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
703: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
704: and simply restates other press reports.
705: <p>
706:
707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 708: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
709: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
710: OS News, April 18, 2003.
711: </strong></font><br>
712: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 716: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
717: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 718: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 719: </strong></font><br>
720: Another report on the DARPA funding.
721: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
722: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
723: <p>
724:
725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 726: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
727: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
728: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
729: April 17, 2003.
730: </strong></font><br>
731: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
732: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
733: Tech Anthems</a>
734: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
735: 4 so far.
736: <p>
737:
738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 739: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
740: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 741: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 742: </strong></font><br>
743: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
744: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
745: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
746: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
747: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
748: Goes on to say:
749: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
750: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
751: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
752: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 753: This article is also found online at:
754: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
756: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
757: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
758: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 759: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
761: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
762: ZDnet</a>,
763: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 764: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
766: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
767: ZDnet Australia</a>,
768: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 769: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 770: </ul>
1.260 ian 771: <p>
1.279 deraadt 772:
1.260 ian 773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 774: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 775: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 776: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 777: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 778: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 779: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
780: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
781: without notice or justification.
782: <p>
783:
784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 785: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 786: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 787: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 788: </strong></font><br>
789: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
790: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 791: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 792: effective today, without any warning..."
793: <p>
1.257 ian 794:
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 796: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
797: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 798: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 799: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 800: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
801: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
802: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
803: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
804: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 805: <p>
806:
807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 808: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
809: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 810: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 811: </strong></font><br>
812: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
813: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
814: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
815: quoting two of them:
816: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
817: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
818: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
819: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
820: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
821: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
822: <p>
823:
1.255 ian 824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 825: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
826: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 827: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 828: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 829: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 833: [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 834: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 835: </strong></font><br>
836: New security concepts in OpenBSD
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 840: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
841: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 842: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 843: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 844: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 845: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
846: security experts for more than three decades."
847: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
848: <p>
1.261 ian 849:
1.254 drahn 850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 851: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 852: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 853: </strong></font><br>
854: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 858: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
859: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
860: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
861: </strong></font><br>
862: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
863: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
864: discussion OpenBSD's path.
865: <p>
866:
867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 868: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
869: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 870: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 871: </strong></font><br>
872: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
873: from US DARPA.
874: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
875: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
876: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
877: the BSD license.
878: <p>
879: </ul>
880:
1.251 ian 881: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
882: <ul>
883:
884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 885: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
886: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
887: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
888: </strong></font><br>
889:
890: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
891: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
892: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
893: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
894: <p>
895:
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 897: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
898: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 899: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 900: </strong></font><br>
901: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
902: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
903: Mentions
904: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
905: and
906: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
907: programs.
908: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 909: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 910: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
911: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
912: <p>
1.325 ian 913: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
914: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 915:
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
917: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
918: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
919: </strong></font><br>
920: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
921: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
922: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
923: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
924: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
925: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
926: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
927: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
928: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
929: put into service."
930: <p>
931: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
932: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
933: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
934: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
935: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
936: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
937: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
938: computers with security features."
939: <p>
1.329 ian 940:
941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
942: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
943: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
944: Slate,
945: March 3, 2003.
946: </strong></font><br>
947: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
948: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
949: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
950: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
951: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
952: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
953: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
954: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
955: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
956: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
957: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
958: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
959: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
960: of more secure open-source solutions like
961: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
962: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
963: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
964: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
965: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
966: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
967: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
968: the Beltway."
969: <p>
1.251 ian 970: </ul>
971:
1.249 jufi 972: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
973: <ul>
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
975: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
976: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 977: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 978: </strong></font><br>
979: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
980: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 981: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 982: <p>
1.334 ian 983:
984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
985: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
986: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
987: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
988: </strong></font><br>
989: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
990: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
991: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
992: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
993: "... the hypothetical question ...
994: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
995: <br>
996: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
997: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
998: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
999: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1000: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1001: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1002: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1003: support network security.
1004: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1005: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1006: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1007: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1008: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1009: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1010: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1011: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1012: <br>
1013: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1014: <p>
1015:
1.249 jufi 1016: </ul>
1017:
1.246 jufi 1018: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1019: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1020:
1.247 jufi 1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1022: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1023: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1024: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1025: </strong></font><br>
1026: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1027: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1028: <p>
1029:
1.247 jufi 1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1031: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1032: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1033: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1034: </strong></font><br>
1035: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1036: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1040: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1041: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1042: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1043: </strong></font><br>
1044: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1045: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1046: <p>
1.247 jufi 1047: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1048:
1.244 jufi 1049: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1050: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1051:
1.247 jufi 1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1053: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1054: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1055: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1056: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1057: </strong></font><br>
1058: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1059: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1060: md5 digests.
1061: <p>
1062:
1.247 jufi 1063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1064: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1065: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1066: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1067: </strong></font><br>
1068: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1069: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1070: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1071: right the first time."
1072: <p>
1.247 jufi 1073: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1074:
1075:
1076: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1077: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1078:
1.247 jufi 1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1080: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1081: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1082: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1083: </strong></font><br>
1084: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1085: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1086: part 6</a>.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.247 jufi 1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1090: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1091: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1092: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1093: </strong></font><br>
1094: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1095: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1096: <p>
1.301 jose 1097:
1098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1099: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1100: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1101: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1102: </strong></font><br>
1103:
1104: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1105: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1106: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1107: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1108: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1109: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1110: <i>Here's the
1111: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1112: <p>
1.247 jufi 1113: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1114:
1115: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1116: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1117:
1.247 jufi 1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1119: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1120: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1121: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1122: </strong></font><br>
1123: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1124: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1125: <p>
1126:
1.247 jufi 1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1128: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1129: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1130: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1131: </strong></font><br>
1132: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1133: this time using pf.
1134: <p>
1.247 jufi 1135: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1136:
1137: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1138: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1139:
1.247 jufi 1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1141: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1142: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1143: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1146: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1147: their rotation.
1148: <p>
1149:
1.247 jufi 1150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1151: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1152: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1153: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1154: </strong></font><br>
1155: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1156: <p>
1.247 jufi 1157: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1158:
1.239 jufi 1159: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1160: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1161:
1.247 jufi 1162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1163: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1164: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1165: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1166: </strong></font><br>
1167: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1168: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1169: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1170: <p>
1171:
1.247 jufi 1172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1173: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1174: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1175: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1176: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1177: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1178: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1179: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1180: <p>
1.247 jufi 1181: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1182:
1.235 lebel 1183: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1184: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1185:
1.239 jufi 1186:
1.247 jufi 1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1188: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1189: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1190: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1191: </strong></font><br>
1192: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1193: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1194: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1195: <p>
1.301 jose 1196:
1.247 jufi 1197: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1198:
1.228 horacio 1199: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1200: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1201:
1.247 jufi 1202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1203: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1204: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1205: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1206: </strong></font><br>
1207: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1208: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1209: <p>
1210:
1.247 jufi 1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1212: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1213: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1214: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1215: </strong></font><br>
1216: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1217: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1218: <p>
1219:
1.247 jufi 1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1221: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1222: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1223: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1226: on the desktop of his parents.
1227: <p>
1228:
1.247 jufi 1229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1230: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1231: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1232: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1233: </strong></font><br>
1234: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1235: using IPFilter.
1236:
1237: <p>
1238:
1.247 jufi 1239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1240: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1241: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1242: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1243: </strong></font><br>
1244: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1245: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1246: perspectives of the four OS.
1247: <br>
1248: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1249: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1250: <p>
1251:
1.247 jufi 1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1253: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1254: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1255: software and security</a>,
1256: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1257: </strong></font><br>
1258:
1259: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1260: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1261: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1262: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1263: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1264: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1265: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1266: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1267: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1268: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1269: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1270: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1271: <p>
1.247 jufi 1272: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1273:
1.225 horacio 1274: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1275: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1276:
1.247 jufi 1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1278: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1279: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1280: Interview</a>,
1281: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1282: </strong></font><br>
1283:
1284: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1285: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1286: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1287: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1288: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1289: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1290: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1291: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1292: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1293: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1294: of choice.
1295: <p>
1.247 jufi 1296: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1297:
1298: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1299: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1300:
1.247 jufi 1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1302: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1303: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1304: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1305: </strong></font><br>
1306:
1307: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1308: <p>
1309:
1.247 jufi 1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1311: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1312: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1313: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1314: </strong></font><br>
1315:
1316: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1317: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1318: <p>
1.247 jufi 1319: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1320:
1.218 horacio 1321: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1322: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1323:
1.247 jufi 1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1325: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1326: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1327: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1328: </strong></font><br>
1329:
1330: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1331: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1332: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1333: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1334: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1335: subjects. Worth a read.
1336: <p>
1337:
1338:
1.247 jufi 1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1340: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1341: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1342: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1343: </strong></font><br>
1344:
1345: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1346: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1347: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1348: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1349: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1350: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1351: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1352: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1353: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1354: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1355: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1356: on other operating systems.<br>
1357: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1358: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1359: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1360: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1361: <p>
1362:
1.247 jufi 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1364: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1365: Operating System 2010</a>,
1366: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1367: </strong></font><br>
1368:
1369: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1370: covering the level of software integration into the core
1371: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1372: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1373: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1374: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1375: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1376: <p>
1377:
1.247 jufi 1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1379: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1380: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1381: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1382: </strong></font><br>
1383:
1384: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1385: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1386: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1387: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1388: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1389: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1390: <p>
1.247 jufi 1391: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1392:
1.210 jufi 1393: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1394: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1395:
1.247 jufi 1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1397: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1398: Already a Contender</a>,
1399: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1400: </strong></font><br>
1401:
1402: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1403: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1404: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1405: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1406: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1407: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1408: <p>
1409:
1.247 jufi 1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1411: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1412: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1413: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1414: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1415:
1.224 horacio 1416: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1417: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1418: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1419: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1420: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1421: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1422: <p>
1.247 jufi 1423: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1424:
1425: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1426: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1427:
1.247 jufi 1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1429: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1430: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1431: Division</a>,
1432: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1433: </strong></font><br>
1434:
1435: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1436: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1437: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1438: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1439: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1440: investment</em>.<br>
1441: The implementation details can be seen on their
1442: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1446: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1447: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1448: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1449: </strong></font><br>
1450:
1451: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1452: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1453: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1454: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1455: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1456: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1457: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1458: <p>
1459:
1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1461: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1462: Thinking about Security</a>,
1463: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1464: </strong></font><br>
1465:
1466: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1467: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1468: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1469: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1470: to time.<br>
1471: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1472: system and just the most secure system.
1473: <p>
1474:
1.247 jufi 1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1476: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1477: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1478: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1479: </strong></font><br>
1480:
1481: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1482: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1483: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1484: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1485: choice:<br>
1486: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1487: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1488: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1489: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1490: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1491: network security devices and as such must be well
1492: armored."</em><br>
1493: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1494: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1495: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1496: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1497: <br>
1498: Bravo!
1499: <p>
1.247 jufi 1500: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1501:
1.207 ian 1502: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1503: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1504:
1.247 jufi 1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1506: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1507: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1508: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1509:
1.207 ian 1510: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1511: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1512: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1513: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1514: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1515: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1516: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1517: <p>
1.247 jufi 1518: </ul>
1.207 ian 1519:
1.194 jufi 1520: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1521: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1522:
1.247 jufi 1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1524: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1525: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1526: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1527: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1528:
1.240 miod 1529: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1530: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1531: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1532: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1533: <p>
1534:
1.247 jufi 1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1536: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1537: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1538: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1539:
1540: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1541: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1542: <p>
1543:
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1545: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1546: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1547: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1548:
1549: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1550: <p>
1551:
1552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1553: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1554: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1555: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1556: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1557:
1.240 miod 1558: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1559: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1560: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1561: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1562: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1563: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1564: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1565: <br>
1566: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1567: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1568: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1569: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1570: <p>
1571:
1.247 jufi 1572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1573: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1574: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1575: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1576: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1577:
1.194 jufi 1578: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1579: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1580: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1581: <br>
1582: The new
1583: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1584: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1585: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1586: <p>
1.247 jufi 1587: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1588:
1.190 horacio 1589: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1590: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1591:
1.247 jufi 1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1593:
1594: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1595: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1596:
1.301 jose 1597:
1.191 jufi 1598: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1599: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1600:
1601: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1602: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1603:
1.212 horacio 1604: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1605: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1606: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1607:
1.211 horacio 1608: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1609: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1610: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1611:
1.247 jufi 1612: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1613: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1614:
1.247 jufi 1615: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1616: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1617:
1.212 horacio 1618: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1619: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1620: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1621:
1622: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1623: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1624:
1625: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1626: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1627:
1.301 jose 1628: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1629: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1630:
1.191 jufi 1631: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1632: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1633:
1634: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1635: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1636:
1.192 jufi 1637: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1638: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1639: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1640:
1.193 deraadt 1641: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1642: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1643: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1644:
1.247 jufi 1645: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1646: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1647:
1.247 jufi 1648: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1649: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1650: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1651:
1.213 horacio 1652: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1653: 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 1654: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1655:
1.190 horacio 1656: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1657: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1658: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1659: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1660: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1661: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1662: <p>
1.190 horacio 1663:
1.247 jufi 1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1665: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1666: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1667: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1668: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1669:
1.195 jufi 1670: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1671: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1672: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1673: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1674: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1675: <p>
1676:
1.247 jufi 1677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1678: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1679: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1680: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1681: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1682:
1.191 jufi 1683: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1684: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1685: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1686: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1690: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1691: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1692: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1693:
1694: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1695: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1696: <p>
1.247 jufi 1697: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1698:
1.191 jufi 1699:
1.186 jufi 1700: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1701: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1702:
1.247 jufi 1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1704: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1705: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1706: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1707: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1708:
1.188 jufi 1709: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1710: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1711: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1712: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1713: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1714: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1715: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1716: <p>
1717:
1.301 jose 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1719: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1720: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1721: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1724: <p>
1.191 jufi 1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1727: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1728: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1729: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1730: </strong></font><br>
1731:
1732: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1733: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1734: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1735: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1736: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1737: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1738: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1739: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1740: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1741: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1742: familiar?
1743: <p>
1.247 jufi 1744: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1745:
1.178 louis 1746: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1747: <ul>
1.178 louis 1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1750: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1751: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1752: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1753: </strong></font><br>
1754:
1755: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1756: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1757: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1758: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1759: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1760: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1761: <p>
1762:
1.247 jufi 1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1764: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1765: Open source under the hood</a>,
1766: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1767: </strong></font><br>
1768:
1769: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1770: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1771: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1772: <p>
1773:
1.247 jufi 1774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1775: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1776: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1777: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1778: </strong></font><br>
1779:
1780: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1781: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1782: <p>
1.247 jufi 1783: </ul>
1.179 louis 1784:
1.174 louis 1785:
1.175 louis 1786: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1787: <ul>
1.175 louis 1788:
1.247 jufi 1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1790: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1791: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1792: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1793: </strong></font><br>
1794:
1795: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1796: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1797: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1798: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1799: <p>
1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1802: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1803: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1804: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1805: </strong></font><br>
1806:
1807: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1808: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1809: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1810: <p>
1.247 jufi 1811: </ul>
1.175 louis 1812:
1.176 louis 1813:
1.172 mickey 1814: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1815: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1816:
1.247 jufi 1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1818: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1819: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1820: </strong></font><br>
1821:
1822: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1823: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1824: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1825: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1826: <p>
1827:
1.247 jufi 1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1829: <a
1.269 deraadt 1830: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1831: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1832: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1833: </strong></font><br>
1834:
1835: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1836: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1837: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1838: <p>
1839:
1.247 jufi 1840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1841: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1842: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1843: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1844: </strong></font><br>
1845:
1846: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1847: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1848: <p>
1849:
1.247 jufi 1850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1851: <a
1.269 deraadt 1852: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1853: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1854: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1855: </strong></font><br>
1856:
1857: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1858: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1859: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1860: our own Theo de Raadt.
1861: <p>
1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1864: <a
1.269 deraadt 1865: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1866: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1867: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1868: </strong></font><br>
1869:
1870: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1871: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1872: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1873: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1874: shut down.]
1875: <p>
1876:
1.247 jufi 1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1878: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1879: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1880: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1881: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1885: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1886: <p>
1.247 jufi 1887: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1888:
1.161 louis 1889: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1890: <ul>
1.161 louis 1891:
1.247 jufi 1892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1893: <a
1.269 deraadt 1894: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1895: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1896: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1897: </strong></font><br>
1898:
1899: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1900: by John Wolley
1901: <p>
1902:
1.247 jufi 1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1904: <a
1.269 deraadt 1905: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1906: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1907: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1908: </strong></font><br>
1909:
1910: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1911: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1912: OpenBSD).
1913: <p>
1914:
1.247 jufi 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1916: <a
1.247 jufi 1917: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1918: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920:
1921: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1922: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1923: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1924: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1925: and hindsight.
1926: <p>
1927:
1.247 jufi 1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1929: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1930: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1931: </strong></font><br>
1932:
1933: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1934: <p>
1935:
1.247 jufi 1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1937: <a
1.168 provos 1938: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1939: December 7, 2000
1940: </strong></font><br>
1941:
1942: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1943: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1944: us explain.
1945: <p>
1946:
1.247 jufi 1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1948: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1949: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1950: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1951: December 6, 2000
1952: </strong></font><br>
1953:
1954: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1955: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1956: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1957: <p>
1958:
1.247 jufi 1959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1960: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1961: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1962: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1963: </strong></font><br>
1964:
1965: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1966: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1967: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1968: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1969: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1970: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1971: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1972: <p>
1973:
1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1975: <a
1.226 horacio 1976: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1977: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1978: </strong></font><br>
1979:
1980: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1981: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1982: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1983: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1984: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1985: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1986: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1987: <p>
1.162 millert 1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1990: <a
1.161 louis 1991: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1992: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1993: </strong></font><br>
1994:
1995: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1996: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1997: <p>
1998:
1.247 jufi 1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2000: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2001: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2002: </strong></font><br>
2003:
2004: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2005: <p>
2006:
2007:
1.247 jufi 2008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2009: <a
1.226 horacio 2010: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2011: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2012: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2013: </strong></font><br>
2014:
2015: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2016: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2017: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2018: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2019: <p>
1.247 jufi 2020: </ul>
1.169 louis 2021:
1.158 louis 2022: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2023: <ul>
1.147 louis 2024:
1.247 jufi 2025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2026: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2027: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2028: </strong></font><br>
2029:
2030: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2031: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2032: <p>
2033:
1.247 jufi 2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2035: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2036: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2037: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2038: </strong></font><br>
2039: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2040: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2041: <p>
2042:
1.247 jufi 2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2044: <a
2045: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2046: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2047: </strong></font><br>
2048:
2049: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2050: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2051: <p>
2052:
1.247 jufi 2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2054: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2055: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2056: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2057:
1.213 horacio 2058: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 2059: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
2060: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2061: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2062: <p>
1.215 horacio 2063:
1.247 jufi 2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2065: <a
2066: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2067: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2068: </strong></font><br>
2069:
2070: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2071: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2072: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2073: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2074: much of the attitude too).
2075: <p>
1.161 louis 2076:
1.247 jufi 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2078: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2079: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2080: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2081:
1.157 louis 2082: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2083: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2084: <p>
1.247 jufi 2085: </ul>
1.157 louis 2086:
2087: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2088: <ul>
1.157 louis 2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2091: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2092: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2093: </strong></font><br>
2094:
2095: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2096: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2097: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2098: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2099: <p>
2100:
1.247 jufi 2101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2102: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2103: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2104: </strong></font><br>
2105:
2106: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2107: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2108: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2109: it because they love coding...
2110: <p>
2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2113: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2114: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2115: </strong></font><br>
2116:
2117: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2118: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2119: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2120: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2121: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2122: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2123: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2124: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2125: <p>
2126:
1.247 jufi 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2128: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2129: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2130: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2131: </strong></font><br>
2132:
2133: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2134: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2135: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2136: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2137: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2138: the pizza.
2139: <p>
2140:
1.247 jufi 2141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2142: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2143: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2144: </strong></font><br>
2145:
2146: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2147: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2148: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2149: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2150: problems.
2151: <p>
2152:
1.247 jufi 2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2154: <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 2155: </strong></font><br>
2156:
1.222 miod 2157: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2158: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2159: - whether they like it or not.
2160: <p>
2161:
1.247 jufi 2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2163: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2164: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2165: </strong></font><br>
2166:
2167: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2168: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2169: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2170: <p>
1.148 aaron 2171:
1.247 jufi 2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2173: <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 2174: </strong></font><br>
2175:
2176: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2177: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2178: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2179: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2180: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2181: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2182: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2183: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2184: <p>
2185:
1.247 jufi 2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2187: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2188: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2189: </strong></font><br>
2190:
2191: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2192: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2193: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2194: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2195: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2196: <p>
1.247 jufi 2197: </ul>
1.147 louis 2198:
1.138 louis 2199: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2200: <ul>
1.138 louis 2201:
1.247 jufi 2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2203: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2204: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2205: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2206: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2207: </strong></font><br>
2208:
1.227 horacio 2209: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2210: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2211: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2212: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2213: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2214: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2215: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2216: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2217: <p>
2218:
1.247 jufi 2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2220: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2221: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2222: </strong></font><br>
2223:
2224: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2225: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2226: groups, and even Linux.
2227: <p>
2228:
1.247 jufi 2229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2230: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2231: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2232: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2233: </strong></font><br>
2234:
2235: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2236: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2237: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2238: library after installing the OS.
2239: <p>
2240:
1.247 jufi 2241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2242: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2243: Sys Admin, September 2000
2244: </strong></font><br>
2245:
2246: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2247: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2248: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2249: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2250: (<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>,
2251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2252: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2253: <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 2254: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2255: out of the system.
2256: <p>
2257:
1.247 jufi 2258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2259: <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
2260: </strong></font><br>
2261:
2262: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2263: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2264: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2265: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2266: the IP filtering and address translation.
2267: <p>
1.301 jose 2268:
2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2270: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2271: </strong></font><br>
2272:
2273: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2274: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2275: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2276: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2277: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2278: <p>
1.247 jufi 2279: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2280:
1.131 louis 2281: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2282: <ul>
1.131 louis 2283:
1.247 jufi 2284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2285: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2286: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2287: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2288: </strong></font><br>
2289:
2290: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2291: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2292: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2293: <p>
2294:
1.247 jufi 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2296: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2297: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2298: </strong></font><br>
2299:
2300: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2301: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2302: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2303: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2304: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2305: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2306: note of"</i>.
2307: <p>
2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2310: <a
1.247 jufi 2311: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2312: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2313: </strong></font><br>
2314:
2315: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2316: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2317: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2318: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2319: <p>
2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2322: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2323: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2324: </strong></font><br>
2325:
2326: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2327: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2328: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2329: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2330: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2331: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2332: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2333: <p>
2334:
1.247 jufi 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2336: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2337: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2338: 2000
2339: </strong></font><br>
2340:
2341: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2342: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2343: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2344: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2345: against current industry practices.
2346: <p>
2347:
1.247 jufi 2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2349: <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
2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2353: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2354: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2355: <p>
2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2358: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2359: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2360: </strong></font><br>
2361:
2362: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2363: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2364: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2365: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2366: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2367: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2368: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2369: <p>
2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2372: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2373: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2374: </strong></font><br>
2375:
2376: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2377: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2378: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2379: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2380: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2381: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2382: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2383: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2384: <p>
1.247 jufi 2385: </ul>
1.131 louis 2386:
1.118 louis 2387: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2388: <ul>
1.118 louis 2389:
1.247 jufi 2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2391: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2392: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2393: </strong></font><br>
2394:
2395: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2396: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2397: about time. The article mentions that
2398: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2399: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2400: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2401: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2402: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2403: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2404: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2405: <p>
2406:
1.247 jufi 2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2408: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2409: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2410: </strong></font><br>
2411:
2412: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2413: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2414: of OpenSSH.
2415: <p>
2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2418: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2419: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2420: </strong></font><br>
2421:
2422: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2423: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2424: bridging.
2425: <p>
2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2428: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2429: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2430: </strong></font><br>
2431:
1.121 deraadt 2432: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2433: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2434: <p>
2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2437: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2438: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2439: </strong></font><br>
2440:
2441: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2442: <p>
2443:
1.247 jufi 2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2445: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2446: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2447: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2448: </strong></font><br>
2449:
1.120 deraadt 2450: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2451: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2452: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2453: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2454: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2455: <p>
2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2458: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2459: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2460: </strong></font><br>
2461:
1.222 miod 2462: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2463: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2464: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2465: protocols and their quirks.
2466: <p>
2467:
1.247 jufi 2468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2469: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2470: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2471: </strong></font><br>
2472:
2473: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2474: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2475: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2476: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2477: <p>
2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2480: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2481: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2482: </strong></font><br>
2483:
2484: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2485: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2486: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2487: <p>
2488:
1.247 jufi 2489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2490: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2491: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2492: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2493: </strong></font><br>
2494:
2495: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2496: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2497: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2498: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2499: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2500: <p>
1.247 jufi 2501: </ul>
1.118 louis 2502:
1.104 louis 2503: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2504: <ul>
1.104 louis 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2507: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2508: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2509: </strong></font><br>
2510:
2511: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2512: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2513: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2514: be a bit dry.
2515: <p>
2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2518: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2519: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2520: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2523: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2524: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2525: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2526: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2527: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2528: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2529: <p>
2530:
1.247 jufi 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2532: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2533: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2534: 2000
1.128 louis 2535: </strong></font><br>
2536:
2537: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2538: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2539: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2540: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2541: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2542: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2543: <p>
2544:
1.247 jufi 2545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2546: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2547: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2548: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2549:
2550: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2551: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2552: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2553: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2554: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2555: <p>
1.110 louis 2556:
1.247 jufi 2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2558: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2559: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2560: </strong></font><br>
2561:
2562: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2563: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2564: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2565: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2566: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2567: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2568: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2569: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2570: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2571: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2572: <p>
2573:
1.247 jufi 2574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2575: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2576: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2577:
2578: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2579: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2580: <p>
1.108 louis 2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2583: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2584: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2585: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2586:
2587: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2588: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2589: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2590: <p>
1.106 louis 2591:
1.247 jufi 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2593: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2594: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2595: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2596:
2597: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2598: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2599: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2600: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2601: <p>
1.107 louis 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2604: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2605: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2606: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2607:
2608: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2609: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2610: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2611: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2612: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2613: <p>
1.105 louis 2614:
1.247 jufi 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2616: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2617: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2618: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2619:
1.113 naddy 2620: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2621: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2622: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2623: <p>
1.104 louis 2624:
1.247 jufi 2625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2626: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2627: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2628: </strong></font><br>
2629:
2630: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2631: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2632: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2633: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2634: <p>
1.301 jose 2635:
2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2637: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2638: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2639: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2640:
2641: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2642: hardware-supported cryptography.
2643: <p>
1.247 jufi 2644: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2645:
1.85 louis 2646: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2647: <ul>
1.85 louis 2648:
1.247 jufi 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2650: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2651: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2652: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2653:
2654: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2655: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2656: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2657: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2658: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2659: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2660: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2661: <p>
1.99 louis 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2664: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2665: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2666: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2667:
2668: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2669: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2670: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2671: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2672: <p>
1.100 louis 2673:
1.247 jufi 2674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2675: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2676: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2677: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2678:
2679: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2680: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2681: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2682: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2683: <p>
1.95 louis 2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2686: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2687: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2688: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2689:
2690: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2691: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2692: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2693: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2694: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2695: <p>
1.92 louis 2696:
1.247 jufi 2697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2698: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2699: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2700: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2701:
2702: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2703: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2704: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2705: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2706: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2707: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2708: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2709: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2710: <p>
1.91 louis 2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2713: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2714: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2715: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2716:
2717: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2718: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2719: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2720: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2721: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2722: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2723: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2724: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2725: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2726: <p>
1.90 louis 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2729: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2730: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2731: </strong></font><br>
2732: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2733: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2734: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2735: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2736: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2737: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2738: <p>
2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2741: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2742: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2743: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2744:
1.113 naddy 2745: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2746: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2747: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2748: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2749: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2750: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2751: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2752: <p>
1.87 louis 2753:
1.247 jufi 2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2755: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2756: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2757: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2758:
2759: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2760: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2761: <p>
1.85 louis 2762:
1.247 jufi 2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2764: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2765: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2766: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2767:
2768: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2769: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2770: <p>
2771:
2772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2773: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2774: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2775: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2776:
2777: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2778: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2779: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2780: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2781: <p>
1.89 louis 2782:
1.247 jufi 2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2784: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2785: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2786: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2787:
2788: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2789: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2790: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2791: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2792: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2793: </ul>
1.85 louis 2794:
1.78 deraadt 2795: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2796: <ul>
1.74 louis 2797:
1.247 jufi 2798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2799: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2800: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2801: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2802: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2803:
2804: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2805: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2806: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2807: <p>
1.83 louis 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2810: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2811: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2812: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2813:
2814: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2815: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2816: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2817: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2818: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2819: <p>
1.93 louis 2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2822: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2823: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2824: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2825: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2826:
1.83 louis 2827: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2828: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2829: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2830: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2831: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2832: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2833: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2834: <p>
1.82 aaron 2835:
1.247 jufi 2836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2837: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2838: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2839: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2840:
1.83 louis 2841: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2842: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2843: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2844: <p>
1.80 louis 2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2847: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2848: Bad Press</a>,
2849: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2850: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2851:
2852: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2853: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2854: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2855: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2856: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2857: <p>
1.247 jufi 2858: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2859:
2860: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2861: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2862:
1.247 jufi 2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2864: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2865: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2866: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2867: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2868:
2869: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2870: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2871: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2872: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2873: <p>
1.74 louis 2874:
1.247 jufi 2875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2876: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2877: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2878: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2879:
1.219 horacio 2880: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2881: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2882: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2883: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2884: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2885: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2886: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2887: <p>
1.88 louis 2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2890: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2891: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2892: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2893:
2894: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2895: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2896: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2897: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2898: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2899: <p>
1.81 louis 2900:
1.247 jufi 2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2902: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2903: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2904: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2905:
2906: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2907: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2908: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2909: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2910: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2911: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2912: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2913: <p>
1.90 louis 2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2916: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2917: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2918: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2919:
2920: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2921: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2922: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2923: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2924: <p>
1.247 jufi 2925: </ul>
1.71 louis 2926:
1.69 deraadt 2927: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2928: <ul>
1.70 louis 2929:
1.247 jufi 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2931: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2932: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2933: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2934:
2935: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2936: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2937: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2938: <p>
1.70 louis 2939:
1.247 jufi 2940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2941: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2942: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2943: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2944:
2945: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2946: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2947: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2948: <p>
1.68 louis 2949:
1.247 jufi 2950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2951: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2952: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2953: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2954: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2955:
1.111 jufi 2956: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2957: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2958: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2959: "secure by default" installation.
2960: <p>
1.64 louis 2961:
1.247 jufi 2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2963: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2964: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2965: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2966:
1.113 naddy 2967: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2968: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2969: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2970: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2971: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2972: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2973: <p>
1.66 louis 2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2976: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2977: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2978: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2979:
2980: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2981: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2982: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2983: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2984: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2985: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2986: <p>
1.83 louis 2987:
1.247 jufi 2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2989: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2990: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2991: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2992:
2993: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2994: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2995: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2996: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2997: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2998: <p>
1.64 louis 2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3001: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3002: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3003: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3004:
3005: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3006: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3007: <p>
1.301 jose 3008:
3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3010: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3011: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3012: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3013: </strong></font><br>
3014:
3015: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3016: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3017: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3018: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3019: Giving way to
3020: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3021: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3022: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3023: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3024: <p>
1.247 jufi 3025: </ul>
1.65 louis 3026:
1.69 deraadt 3027: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3028: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3031: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3032: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3033: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3034:
3035: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3036: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3037: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3038: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3039: <p>
1.88 louis 3040:
1.247 jufi 3041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3042: <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 3043: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3044:
3045: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3046: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3047: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3048: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3049: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3050: <p>
1.60 louis 3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3053: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
3054: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3055: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3056: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3057:
3058: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3059: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3060: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3061: <p>
1.58 louis 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3064: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3065: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3066:
3067: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3068: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3069: <p>
1.53 louis 3070:
1.247 jufi 3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3072: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3073: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3074: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3075:
3076: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3077: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3078: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3079: <p>
1.99 louis 3080:
1.247 jufi 3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3082: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3083: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3084:
3085: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3086: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3087: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3088: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3089: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3092: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3093: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3094: </strong></font><br>
3095:
3096: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3097: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3098: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3099: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3100: <p>
3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3103: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3104: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3105: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3106:
3107: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3108: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3109: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3110:
1.247 jufi 3111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3112: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3113: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3114:
3115: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3116: in
1.247 jufi 3117: <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 3118: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3119: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3120: <p>
1.53 louis 3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3123: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3124: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3125: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3126: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3127:
1.58 louis 3128: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3129: <p>
1.301 jose 3130:
3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3132: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3133: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3134: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3135: Informacyjny, January 2000
3136: </strong></font><br>
3137:
3138: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3139: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3140: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3141: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3142: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3143: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3144: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3145: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3146: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3147: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3149: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3150: <p>
3151:
3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3153: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3154: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3155: </strong></font><br>
3156:
3157: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3158: <p>
3159: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3160:
1.69 deraadt 3161: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3162: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3163:
1.247 jufi 3164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3165: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3166: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3167: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3168: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3169:
1.58 louis 3170: Kurt Seifried
3171: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3172: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3173: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3174: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3177: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3178: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3179: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3180:
3181: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3182: <p>
1.96 louis 3183:
1.247 jufi 3184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3185: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3186: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3187: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3188: </strong></font><br>
3189:
3190: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3191: <p>
3192:
3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3194: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3195: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3196: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3197:
3198: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3199: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3201: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3202: <p>
1.247 jufi 3203: </ul>
1.86 louis 3204:
1.69 deraadt 3205: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3206: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3207:
1.247 jufi 3208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3209: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3210: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3211: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3212:
3213: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3214: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3215: <p>
1.61 louis 3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3218: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3219: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3220: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3221: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3222:
3223: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3224: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3225: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3226: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3227: right -- or at least strives to".
3228: <p>
1.48 louis 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3231: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3232: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3233: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3234: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3235: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3236: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3237: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3238: <p>
1.61 louis 3239:
1.247 jufi 3240: <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 3241: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3242: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3243:
3244: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3245: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3246: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3247: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3248: <p>
1.46 louis 3249:
1.247 jufi 3250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3251: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3252: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3253: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3254:
3255: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3256: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3257: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3258:
1.247 jufi 3259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3260: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3261: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3262: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3263:
3264: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3265: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3266: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3267: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3268: <p>
1.247 jufi 3269: </ul>
1.70 louis 3270:
1.69 deraadt 3271: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3272: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3275: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3276: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3277: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3278: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3279:
3280: Kurt Seifried
3281: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3282: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3283: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3284: <p>
1.44 philen 3285:
1.247 jufi 3286: <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 3287: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3289:
3290: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3291: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <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 3294: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3295: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3296:
3297: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3298: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3299:
1.247 jufi 3300: <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 3301: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3302: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3303:
3304: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3305: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3306: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3307: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3308: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <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 3311: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3312: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3313:
1.36 louis 3314: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3315: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3318: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3319: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3321:
3322: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3323: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3324: </ul>
1.38 louis 3325:
1.69 deraadt 3326: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3327: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3328:
1.247 jufi 3329: <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 3330: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3331: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3332:
3333: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3334: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3335: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3336:
1.113 naddy 3337: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3338: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3339: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3340: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3341:
3342: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3343: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3344: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3345: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3346: <blockquote>
3347: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3348: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3349: <br>
3350: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3351: </code>
3352: </blockquote>
3353: <p>
3354:
1.247 jufi 3355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3356: <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 3357: <p>
3358:
3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3360: <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 3361: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3362:
3363: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3364: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3365: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3366: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3367:
1.247 jufi 3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3369: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3370: Sept. 28, 1999
3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
3373: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3374: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3375: translating and reprinting articles from
3376: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3377: <p>
3378:
3379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3380: <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 3381: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3382:
3383: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3384: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3385: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3386: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3387: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3388: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3389: <p>
1.19 louis 3390:
1.113 naddy 3391: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3392: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3393: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3394:
3395: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3396: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3397: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3398: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3399: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3400: <p>
1.16 louis 3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3403: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3404: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3405: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3406:
1.57 louis 3407: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3408: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3409: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3410: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3411:
1.247 jufi 3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3413: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3414: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3415: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3416:
1.113 naddy 3417: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3420: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3421: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3422: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3423:
1.23 louis 3424: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3425: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3426: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3427: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3428: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3429: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3432: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3433: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3434: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3435:
1.199 pvalchev 3436: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3437: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3438: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3439: installation.
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.47 louis 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3443: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3444: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3445: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3446:
1.301 jose 3447: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3448: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3449: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3450: </ul>
1.57 louis 3451:
1.69 deraadt 3452: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3453: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3454:
1.247 jufi 3455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3456: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3457: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3458: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3459:
3460: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3461: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3462: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3463: <p>
1.12 louis 3464:
1.247 jufi 3465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3466: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3467: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3468: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3469:
3470: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3471: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3472: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3473: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3474: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3475: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3476: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3477: <p>
1.247 jufi 3478: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3479:
1.69 deraadt 3480: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3481: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3484: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3485: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3486:
3487: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3488: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3489: available."
1.113 naddy 3490: <p>
1.301 jose 3491:
3492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3493: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3494: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3495: </strong></font><br>
3496:
3497: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3498: <p>
1.247 jufi 3499: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3500:
1.69 deraadt 3501: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3502: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3503:
1.247 jufi 3504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3505: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3506: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3507:
3508: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3509: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3510: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3511: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3512: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3513: <p>
1.33 louis 3514:
1.247 jufi 3515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3516: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3517: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3518: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3519:
1.113 naddy 3520: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3521: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3522: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3523: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3524: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3525: <p>
1.247 jufi 3526: </ul>
1.57 louis 3527:
1.69 deraadt 3528: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3529: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3530:
1.247 jufi 3531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3532: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3533: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3534: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3535:
3536: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3537: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3538: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3539:
1.247 jufi 3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3541: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3542: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3543: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3544: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3545:
3546: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3547: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3550: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3551:
1.113 naddy 3552: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3553:
1.247 jufi 3554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3555: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3556: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3557: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3558:
3559: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3560: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3561: </ul>
1.23 louis 3562:
1.69 deraadt 3563: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3564: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3567: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3568: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3569:
3570: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3571: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3572: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3575: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3576: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3577: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3578:
3579: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3580: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3581: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3582: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3583: </ul>
1.57 louis 3584:
1.69 deraadt 3585: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3586: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3587:
1.247 jufi 3588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3589: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3590: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3591: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3592:
3593: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3594: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3595: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3596: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3597: <p>
1.15 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3600: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3601: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3602: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3603:
3604: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3605: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3606: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3607: columns."
1.113 naddy 3608: <p>
1.247 jufi 3609: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3610:
1.69 deraadt 3611: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3612: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3613:
1.247 jufi 3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3615: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3616: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3617: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3618:
3619: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3620: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3621:
1.113 naddy 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3623: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3624: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3625:
3626: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3627: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3628: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3629: </ul>
1.57 louis 3630:
1.69 deraadt 3631: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3632: <ul>
1.301 jose 3633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3634: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3635: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3636: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3637:
3638: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3639: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3640: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3641: <p>
3642:
3643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3644: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3645: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3646: Nov 13, 1998 and
3647: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3648: Datateknik</a>,
3649: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3650:
3651: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3652: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3653: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3654: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3655: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3656:
1.113 naddy 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3658: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3659: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3660: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3661:
1.222 miod 3662: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3663: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3664: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3665: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3666: <p>
1.247 jufi 3667: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3668:
1.69 deraadt 3669: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3670: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3673: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3674: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3675:
1.69 deraadt 3676: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3677: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3678: <p>
1.247 jufi 3679: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3680:
1.69 deraadt 3681: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3682: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3685: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3686: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3687: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3688:
3689: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3690: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3691: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3692:
1.247 jufi 3693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3694: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3695: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3696: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3697: <p>
1.247 jufi 3698: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3699:
1.69 deraadt 3700: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3701: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3704: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3705: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3706: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3707: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3708: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3709:
3710: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3711: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3712: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3713: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3714: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3715: <p>
1.247 jufi 3716: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3717:
3718: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3719: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3720:
1.247 jufi 3721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3722: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3723: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3724:
1.69 deraadt 3725: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3726: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3727: <p>
1.112 naddy 3728:
1.247 jufi 3729: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3730: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3731:
1.292 camield 3732: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3733: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3734: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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