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1.378 henning 19: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
22: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
23: </strong></font><br>
1.379 ! henning 24: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 25: OpenBSD source code using
26: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
27: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
28: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
29: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
30: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
31: <p>
32: </ul>
33:
1.374 jose 34: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
35: <ul>
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.375 jose 37: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
38: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
39: </strong></font><br>
40: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
41: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
42: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
43: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
44: it."
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 48: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
49: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
50: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
51: </strong></font><br/>
52: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
53: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
54: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
55: <p>
56: </ul>
57:
1.369 ian 58: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
59: <ul>
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 61: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
62: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
63: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
64: </strong></font><br/>
65: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
66: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
67: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
68: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
69: form factor.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
73: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
74: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
75: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
76: Features</a>,
77: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
78: </strong></font><br/>
79: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
80: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
81: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
82: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
83: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
84: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
85: <p>
86: This article can also be found online at:
87: <ul>
88: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
89: <a href="http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/news.hwz?cid=10&aid=13257">VIA Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, Worlds Smallest & Lowest Power Native x86 Processor with Industrys Most Advanced Embedded Security Features</a>,
90: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
91: </strong></font>
92: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
93: </ul>
94: <p>
95: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.372 jose 96: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">Adding
1.371 jose 97: System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
98: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
99: </strong></font><br/>
100: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
101: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
102: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
103: </p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 106: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 107: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 108: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 109: </strong></font><br/>
110: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
111: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
112: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
113: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
114: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
115: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
116: and its history with OpenBSD.
117: </ul>
118:
1.368 henning 119: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
120: <ul>
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 122: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/kav-26.08.03-001/">OpenBSD-Firewall erkennt Betriebssysteme</a>, heise online, August 26, 2003.
1.368 henning 123: </strong></font><br>
124: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
125: </ul>
126:
1.364 jose 127: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
128: <ul>
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 130: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
131: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
132: UNIX Review,
133: July, 2003.
134: </strong></font><br>
135: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
136: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
137: who want more information.
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 141: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
142: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
143: Government Computer News,
144: July 22, 2003.
145: </strong></font><br>
146: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
147: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
148: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
149: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
153: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
154: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
155: SANS Institute,
156: July 22, 2003.
157: </strong></font><br>
158: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 159: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 160: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
161: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
162: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
163: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
164: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
165: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
166: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
167: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
168: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
169: <p>
170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 172: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
173: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
174: OnLamp.com,
175: July 17, 2003.
176: </strong></font><br>
177: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
178: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
179: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
180: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
181: have been working on.
182:
183: </ul>
184:
1.356 jose 185: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 186: <ul>
187:
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 189: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
190: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
191: UNIX Review,
192: June, 2003.
193: </strong></font><br>
194: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
195: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
196: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
197: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 201: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
202: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
203: eWeek,
204: June 23, 2003.
205: </strong></font><br>
206: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
207: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
208: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
209: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
210: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
211: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 215: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
216: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
217: Software Development Online,
218: June, 2003.
219: </strong></font><br>
220: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
221: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
222: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
223: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
224: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
225: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
226: current activities.
227: <p>
228:
229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 230: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
231: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 232: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
233: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
234: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
235: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
236: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
237: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
238: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
239: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 240: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 241: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
242: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
243: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
244: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
245: decisions.
246: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
247: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
248: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
249: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 250: <p>
251:
252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 253: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
254: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
255: Page 58, eWeek,
256: June 2, 2003.
257: </strong></font><br>
258: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
259: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
260: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
261: been addressed in -current.
262: <p>
263:
1.356 jose 264: </ul>
265:
266: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
267: <ul>
268:
1.355 jose 269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 270: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
271: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
272: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
273: </strong></font><br>
274: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
275: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
276: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
277: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
278: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
279: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
280: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
281: <p>
282:
283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 284: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
285: Beyond Linux</a>,
286: InfoWorld,
287: May 23, 2003.
288: </strong></font><br>
289: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
290: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
291: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
292: compared to the GPL.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 296: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
297: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
298: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 299: May 17, 2003.
300: </strong></font><br>
301: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
302: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
303: the business section and half of another page inside
304: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
305: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
306: in talking about the project's history and goals.
307: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
308: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
309: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
310: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 311: <br>
312: This article can also be found online at:
313: <ul>
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
315: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
316: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
317: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
318: May 17, 2003
319: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 320: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
323: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
324: Montreal Gazette,
325: May 21, 2003
326: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 327: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 328: <p>
1.346 ian 329:
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 331: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 332: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 333: May 7, 2003.
334: </strong></font><br>
335: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
336: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
337: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 341: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
342: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
343: OsOpinion,
344: May 6, 2003.
345: </strong></font><br>
346: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
347: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
348: <br>
349: This article can also be found online at:
350: <ul>
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
352: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
353: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
354: NewsFactor Network.
355: </strong></font>
356: </ul>
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 360: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 361: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
362: ITBusiness,
363: May 2, 2003.
364: </strong></font><br>
365: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
366: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
367: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
368: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 372: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
373: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
374: InfoWorld,
375: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 376: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 377: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
378: <br>
379: This article can also be found online at:
380: <ul>
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
382: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
383: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
384: IDG Singapore.
385: </strong></font>
386: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 387: <p>
388:
1.339 jose 389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
390: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
391: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 392: ZDNet,
393: May 1, 2003.
394: </strong></font><br>
395: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 396: someone using parts from previous articles.
397: <br>
1.341 deraadt 398: This article can also be found online at:
399: <ul>
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
401: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
402: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
403: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 404: </strong></font>
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
406: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
407: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
408: CNET News.com.
409: </strong></font>
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
411: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
412: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
413: ZDNet UK.
414: </strong></font>
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
416: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
417: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
418: Help Net Security, Croatia.
419: </strong></font>
420: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 421: <p>
1.339 jose 422:
1.341 deraadt 423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 424: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 425: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
426: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
427: May 1, 2003.
428: </strong></font><br>
429: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
430: that have been added
431: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
432: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
433: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 434: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 435: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
436: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
437: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 438: <p>
439:
440: </ul>
441:
1.253 ian 442: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
443: <ul>
1.255 ian 444:
1.260 ian 445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 446: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 447: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
448: TechRepublic,
449: April 28, 2003.
450: </strong></font><br>
451: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
452: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 453: work.<br>
454: Can also be found online at:
455: <ul>
456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
457: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
458: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
459: ZDNet UK.
460: </strong></font>
461: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 462: <p>
463:
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 465: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
466: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
467: IDG,
468: April 24, 2003.
469: </strong></font><br>
470: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
471: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
472: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
473: Can also be found online at:
474: <ul>
475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
476: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
477: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 478: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 479: </strong></font>
480: </ul>
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
484: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 485: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 486: Slate,
487: April 24, 2003.
488: </strong></font><br>
489: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
490: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
491: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
492: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 496: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
497: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
498: April 24, 2003.
499: </strong></font><br>
500: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
501: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
502: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
503: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 507: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
508: April 24, 2003.
509: </strong></font><br>
510: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
511: the free software community".
512: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
513: other articles.
514: <p>
515:
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 517: <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 518: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
519: </strong></font><br>
520: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
521: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
522: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
523: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
524: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
525: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
526: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
527: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
528: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
529: <br/>
530: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
531: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
532: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
533: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 534: <br>
535: Can also be found online at:
536: <ul>
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
538: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
539: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
540: Common Dreams NewsCenter
541: </strong></font>
542: </ul>
1.324 ian 543: <p>
544:
545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
546: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
547: Wired, April 24, 2003.
548: </strong></font><br>
549: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
550: article above.
551: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
552: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
553: wasting them."
1.332 ian 554: <br>
555: Can also be found online at:
556: <ul>
557: <li>
558: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
559: </strong></font>
560: </ul>
1.324 ian 561: <p>
562:
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 564: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
565: </strong></font><br>
566: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
567: <p>
568:
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 570: <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.
571: </strong></font><br>
572: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
573: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
574: <p>
575:
576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 577: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
578: April 23, 2003.
579: </strong></font><br>
580: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
581: <p>
582:
583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 584: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 585: April 22, 2003.
586: </strong></font><br>
587: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 591: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
592: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
593: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 594: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 595: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
596: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
597: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
598: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
599: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
600: Can also be found online at:
601: <ul>
602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
603: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 604: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
605: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 606: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
608: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 609: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
610: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 611: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 612: </ul>
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 616: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
617: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 618: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 619: </strong></font><br>
620: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 621: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
622: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
623: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
624: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
625: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
626: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 627: <p>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 630: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
631: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 632: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
633: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 634: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
635: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
636: at UPenn and DARPA.
637: <p>
638:
639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 640: [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,
641: France
1.315 deraadt 642: April 18, 2003.
643: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 644: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 645: <p>
646:
647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 648: [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 649: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 650: </strong></font><br>
651: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
652: <p>
653:
654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 655: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
656: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
657: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 658: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 659: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
660: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
661: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
662: <p>
663:
664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 665: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
666: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 667: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 668: </strong></font><br>
669: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
670: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
671: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 672: American century.
1.267 deraadt 673: <p>
674:
675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 676: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
677: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 678: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 679: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 680: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
681: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
682: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
683: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
684: Can also be found online at:
685: <ul>
686: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
687: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 688: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 689: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 690: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 691: <p>
692:
693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 694: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 695: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 696: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 697: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 698: </strong></font><br>
699: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 700: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
701: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
702: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
703: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 704:
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
706: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
707: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
708: New York Times.
709: </strong></font>(free registration required)
710:
1.273 deraadt 711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
712: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 713: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 714: ABC News.
715: </strong></font>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 718: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 719: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 720: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 721: </strong></font>
722:
723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 724: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 725: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 726: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 727: </strong></font>
728:
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 730: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
731: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 732: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 733: </strong></font>
734:
735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 736: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 737: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 738: Times Daily, AL.
739: </strong></font>
740:
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
742: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
743: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
744: Boston.com, MA.
745: </strong></font>
746:
747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 748: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 749: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 750: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
751: </strong></font>
752:
753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 754: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
755: [Article was pulled]</a>
756: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 757: </strong></font>
758:
759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
760: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
761: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
762: Infoshop News.
763: </strong></font>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
766: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
767: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
768: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
769: </strong></font>
770:
771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 772: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
773: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
774: Raleigh News, NC.
775: </strong></font>
776:
777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 778: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 779: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
780: Napa News, CA.
781: </strong></font>
782:
783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 784: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 785: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
786: NEPA News, PA.
787: </strong></font>
788:
789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
790: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
791: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
792: Wired News.
793: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 794: <br>
795: <li>
1.333 deraadt 796: <font color="#009000"><strong>
797: [JAPANESE]
798: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
799: Wired News Japan</a>
800: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 801:
1.271 deraadt 802: </ul>
803: <p>
1.272 deraadt 804: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
805: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 806: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
807: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
808: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
809: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
810: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
811: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 812: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 813: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
814: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
815: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 816: <p>
817: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 818:
819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 820: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 821: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
822: Indianapolis Star, IN.
823: </strong></font>
824:
825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 826: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
827: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
828: Miami Herald, FL.
829: </strong></font>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 832: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 833: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
834: </strong></font>
835:
836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
837: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 838: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 839: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 840: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 841:
842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
843: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
844: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
845: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
846: ABC News.
847: </strong></font>
848:
1.276 deraadt 849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
850: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 851: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 852: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 853: </strong></font>
854:
1.286 dhartmei 855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 856: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 857: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
858: Wilmington Star, NC.
859: </strong></font>
860:
1.300 jose 861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
862: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
863: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
864: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
865: </strong></font>
866:
1.309 jose 867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
868: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
869: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
870: Globe Technology.
871: </strong></font>
872:
1.263 deraadt 873: </ul>
1.262 beck 874: <p>
875:
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 877: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
878: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 879: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 880: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 881: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 882: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
883: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
884: <p>
885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 887: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
888: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
889: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 890: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 891: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
892: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
893: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
894: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
895: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
896: and simply restates other press reports.
897: <p>
898:
899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 900: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
901: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
902: OS News, April 18, 2003.
903: </strong></font><br>
904: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 908: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
909: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 910: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 911: </strong></font><br>
912: Another report on the DARPA funding.
913: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
914: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
915: <p>
916:
917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 918: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
919: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
920: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
921: April 17, 2003.
922: </strong></font><br>
923: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
924: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
925: Tech Anthems</a>
926: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
927: 4 so far.
928: <p>
929:
930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 931: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
932: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 933: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 934: </strong></font><br>
935: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
936: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
937: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
938: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
939: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
940: Goes on to say:
941: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
942: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
943: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
944: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 945: This article is also found online at:
946: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
948: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
949: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
950: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 951: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
953: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
954: ZDnet</a>,
955: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 956: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
958: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
959: ZDnet Australia</a>,
960: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 961: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 962: </ul>
1.260 ian 963: <p>
1.279 deraadt 964:
1.260 ian 965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 966: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 967: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 968: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 969: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 970: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 971: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
972: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
973: without notice or justification.
974: <p>
975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 977: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 978: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 979: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 980: </strong></font><br>
981: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
982: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 983: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 984: effective today, without any warning..."
985: <p>
1.257 ian 986:
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 988: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
989: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 990: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 991: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 992: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
993: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
994: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
995: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
996: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 997: <p>
998:
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1000: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1001: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1002: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1003: </strong></font><br>
1004: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1005: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1006: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1007: quoting two of them:
1008: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1009: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1010: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1011: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1012: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1013: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1014: <p>
1015:
1.255 ian 1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1017: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1018: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1019: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1020: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1021: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1022: <p>
1023:
1024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1025: [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 1026: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1027: </strong></font><br>
1028: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1032: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1033: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1034: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1035: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1036: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1037: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1038: security experts for more than three decades."
1039: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1040: <p>
1.261 ian 1041:
1.254 drahn 1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1043: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1044: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1045: </strong></font><br>
1046: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1047: <p>
1048:
1049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1050: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1051: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1052: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1053: </strong></font><br>
1054: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1055: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1056: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1060: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1061: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1062: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1063: </strong></font><br>
1064: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1065: from US DARPA.
1066: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1067: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1068: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1069: the BSD license.
1070: <p>
1071: </ul>
1072:
1.251 ian 1073: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1074: <ul>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1077: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1078: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1079: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1080: </strong></font><br>
1081:
1082: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1083: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1084: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1085: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1086: <p>
1087:
1088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1089: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1090: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1091: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1092: </strong></font><br>
1093: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1094: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1095: Mentions
1096: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1097: and
1098: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1099: programs.
1100: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1101: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1102: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1103: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1104: <p>
1.325 ian 1105: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1106: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1109: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1110: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1111: </strong></font><br>
1112: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1113: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1114: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1115: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1116: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1117: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1118: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1119: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1120: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1121: put into service."
1122: <p>
1123: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1124: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1125: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1126: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1127: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1128: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1129: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1130: computers with security features."
1131: <p>
1.329 ian 1132:
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1134: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1135: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1136: Slate,
1137: March 3, 2003.
1138: </strong></font><br>
1139: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1140: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1141: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1142: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1143: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1144: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1145: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1146: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1147: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1148: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1149: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1150: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1151: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1152: of more secure open-source solutions like
1153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1154: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1155: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1156: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1157: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1158: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1159: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1160: the Beltway."
1161: <p>
1.251 ian 1162: </ul>
1163:
1.249 jufi 1164: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1165: <ul>
1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1167: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1168: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1169: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1170: </strong></font><br>
1171: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1172: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1173: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1174: <p>
1.334 ian 1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1177: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1178: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1179: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1180: </strong></font><br>
1181: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1182: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1183: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1184: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1185: "... the hypothetical question ...
1186: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1187: <br>
1188: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1189: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1190: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1191: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1192: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1193: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1195: support network security.
1196: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1197: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1198: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1199: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1200: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1201: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1202: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1203: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1204: <br>
1205: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1206: <p>
1207:
1.249 jufi 1208: </ul>
1209:
1.246 jufi 1210: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1211: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1212:
1.247 jufi 1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1214: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1215: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1216: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1217: </strong></font><br>
1218: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1219: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1220: <p>
1221:
1.247 jufi 1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1224: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1225: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1226: </strong></font><br>
1227: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1228: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1232: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1233: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1234: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1235: </strong></font><br>
1236: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1237: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1238: <p>
1.247 jufi 1239: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1240:
1.244 jufi 1241: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1242: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1243:
1.247 jufi 1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1245: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1246: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1247: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1248: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1249: </strong></font><br>
1250: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1251: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1252: md5 digests.
1253: <p>
1254:
1.247 jufi 1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1256: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1257: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1258: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1259: </strong></font><br>
1260: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1261: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1262: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1263: right the first time."
1264: <p>
1.247 jufi 1265: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1266:
1267:
1268: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1269: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1270:
1.247 jufi 1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1272: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1273: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1274: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1275: </strong></font><br>
1276: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1277: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1278: part 6</a>.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1282: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1283: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1284: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1287: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1288: <p>
1.301 jose 1289:
1290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1291: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1292: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1293: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1294: </strong></font><br>
1295:
1296: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1297: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1298: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1299: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1300: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1301: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1302: <i>Here's the
1303: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1304: <p>
1.247 jufi 1305: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1306:
1307: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1308: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1309:
1.247 jufi 1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1311: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1312: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1313: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1314: </strong></font><br>
1315: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1316: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1317: <p>
1318:
1.247 jufi 1319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1320: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1321: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1322: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1323: </strong></font><br>
1324: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1325: this time using pf.
1326: <p>
1.247 jufi 1327: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1328:
1329: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1330: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1331:
1.247 jufi 1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1333: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1334: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1335: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1336: </strong></font><br>
1337: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1338: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1339: their rotation.
1340: <p>
1341:
1.247 jufi 1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1343: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1344: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1345: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1346: </strong></font><br>
1347: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1348: <p>
1.247 jufi 1349: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1350:
1.239 jufi 1351: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1352: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1353:
1.247 jufi 1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1355: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1356: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1357: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1358: </strong></font><br>
1359: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1360: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1361: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1362: <p>
1363:
1.247 jufi 1364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1365: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1366: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1367: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1368: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1369: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1370: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1371: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1372: <p>
1.247 jufi 1373: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1374:
1.235 lebel 1375: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1376: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1377:
1.239 jufi 1378:
1.247 jufi 1379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1380: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1381: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1382: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1383: </strong></font><br>
1384: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1385: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1386: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1387: <p>
1.301 jose 1388:
1.247 jufi 1389: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1390:
1.228 horacio 1391: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1392: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1393:
1.247 jufi 1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1395: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1396: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1397: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1398: </strong></font><br>
1399: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1400: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1401: <p>
1402:
1.247 jufi 1403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1404: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1405: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1406: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1407: </strong></font><br>
1408: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1409: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1410: <p>
1411:
1.247 jufi 1412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1413: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1414: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1415: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1416: </strong></font><br>
1417: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1418: on the desktop of his parents.
1419: <p>
1420:
1.247 jufi 1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1422: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1423: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1424: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1425: </strong></font><br>
1426: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1427: using IPFilter.
1428:
1429: <p>
1430:
1.247 jufi 1431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1432: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1433: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1434: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1435: </strong></font><br>
1436: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1437: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1438: perspectives of the four OS.
1439: <br>
1440: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1441: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1442: <p>
1443:
1.247 jufi 1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1445: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1446: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1447: software and security</a>,
1448: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1449: </strong></font><br>
1450:
1451: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1452: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1453: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1454: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1455: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1456: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1457: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1458: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1459: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1460: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1461: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1462: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1463: <p>
1.247 jufi 1464: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1465:
1.225 horacio 1466: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1467: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1468:
1.247 jufi 1469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1470: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1471: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1472: Interview</a>,
1473: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1474: </strong></font><br>
1475:
1476: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1477: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1478: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1479: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1480: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1481: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1482: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1483: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1484: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1485: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1486: of choice.
1487: <p>
1.247 jufi 1488: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1489:
1490: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1491: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1492:
1.247 jufi 1493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1494: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1495: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1496: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1497: </strong></font><br>
1498:
1499: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1500: <p>
1501:
1.247 jufi 1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1503: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1504: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1505: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1506: </strong></font><br>
1507:
1508: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1509: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1510: <p>
1.247 jufi 1511: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1512:
1.218 horacio 1513: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1514: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1515:
1.247 jufi 1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1517: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1518: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1519: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1520: </strong></font><br>
1521:
1522: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1523: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1524: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1525: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1526: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1527: subjects. Worth a read.
1528: <p>
1529:
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1532: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1533: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1534: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1535: </strong></font><br>
1536:
1537: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1538: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1539: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1540: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1541: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1542: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1543: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1544: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1545: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1546: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1547: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1548: on other operating systems.<br>
1549: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1550: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1551: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1552: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1553: <p>
1554:
1.247 jufi 1555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1556: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1557: Operating System 2010</a>,
1558: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1559: </strong></font><br>
1560:
1561: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1562: covering the level of software integration into the core
1563: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1564: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1565: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1566: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1567: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1568: <p>
1569:
1.247 jufi 1570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1571: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1572: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1573: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1574: </strong></font><br>
1575:
1576: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1577: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1578: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1579: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1580: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1581: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1582: <p>
1.247 jufi 1583: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1584:
1.210 jufi 1585: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1586: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1589: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1590: Already a Contender</a>,
1591: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1592: </strong></font><br>
1593:
1594: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1595: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1596: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1597: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1598: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1599: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1600: <p>
1601:
1.247 jufi 1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1603: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1604: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1605: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1606: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1607:
1.224 horacio 1608: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1609: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1610: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1611: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1612: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1613: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1614: <p>
1.247 jufi 1615: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1616:
1617: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1618: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1619:
1.247 jufi 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1621: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1622: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1623: Division</a>,
1624: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1625: </strong></font><br>
1626:
1627: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1628: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1629: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1630: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1631: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1632: investment</em>.<br>
1633: The implementation details can be seen on their
1634: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1635: <p>
1636:
1.247 jufi 1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1638: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1639: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1640: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1641: </strong></font><br>
1642:
1643: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1644: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1645: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1646: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1647: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1648: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1649: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1650: <p>
1651:
1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1653: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1654: Thinking about Security</a>,
1655: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1656: </strong></font><br>
1657:
1658: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1659: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1660: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1661: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1662: to time.<br>
1663: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1664: system and just the most secure system.
1665: <p>
1666:
1.247 jufi 1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1668: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1669: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1670: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1671: </strong></font><br>
1672:
1673: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1674: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1675: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1676: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1677: choice:<br>
1678: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1679: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1680: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1681: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1682: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1683: network security devices and as such must be well
1684: armored."</em><br>
1685: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1686: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1687: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1688: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1689: <br>
1690: Bravo!
1691: <p>
1.247 jufi 1692: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1693:
1.207 ian 1694: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1695: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1696:
1.247 jufi 1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1698: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1699: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1700: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1701:
1.207 ian 1702: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1703: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1704: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1705: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1706: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1707: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1708: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1709: <p>
1.247 jufi 1710: </ul>
1.207 ian 1711:
1.194 jufi 1712: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1713: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1714:
1.247 jufi 1715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1716: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1717: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1718: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1719: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1720:
1.240 miod 1721: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1722: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1723: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1724: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1725: <p>
1726:
1.247 jufi 1727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1728: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1729: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1730: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1731:
1732: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1733: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1734: <p>
1735:
1736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1737: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1738: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1739: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1740:
1741: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1742: <p>
1743:
1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1745: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1746: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1747: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1748: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1749:
1.240 miod 1750: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1751: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1752: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1753: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1754: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1755: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1756: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1757: <br>
1758: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1759: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1760: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1761: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1762: <p>
1763:
1.247 jufi 1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1765: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1766: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1767: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1768: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1769:
1.194 jufi 1770: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1771: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1772: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1773: <br>
1774: The new
1775: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1776: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1777: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1778: <p>
1.247 jufi 1779: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1780:
1.190 horacio 1781: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1782: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1783:
1.247 jufi 1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1785:
1786: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1787: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1788:
1.301 jose 1789:
1.191 jufi 1790: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1791: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1792:
1793: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1794: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1795:
1.212 horacio 1796: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1797: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1798: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1799:
1.211 horacio 1800: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1801: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1802: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1803:
1.247 jufi 1804: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1805: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1806:
1.247 jufi 1807: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1808: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1809:
1.212 horacio 1810: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1811: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1812: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1813:
1814: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1815: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1816:
1817: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1818: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1819:
1.301 jose 1820: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1821: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1822:
1.191 jufi 1823: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1824: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1825:
1826: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1827: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1828:
1.192 jufi 1829: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1830: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1831: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1832:
1.193 deraadt 1833: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1834: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1835: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1836:
1.247 jufi 1837: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1838: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1839:
1.247 jufi 1840: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1841: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1842: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1843:
1.213 horacio 1844: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1845: 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 1846: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1847:
1.190 horacio 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1849: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1850: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1851: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1852: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1853: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1854: <p>
1.190 horacio 1855:
1.247 jufi 1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1857: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1858: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1859: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1860: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1861:
1.195 jufi 1862: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1863: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1864: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1865: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1866: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1867: <p>
1868:
1.247 jufi 1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1870: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1871: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1872: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1873: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1874:
1.191 jufi 1875: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1876: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1877: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1878: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1879: <p>
1880:
1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1882: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1883: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1884: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1885:
1886: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1887: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1888: <p>
1.247 jufi 1889: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1890:
1.191 jufi 1891:
1.186 jufi 1892: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1893: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1894:
1.247 jufi 1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1896: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1897: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1898: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1899: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1900:
1.188 jufi 1901: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1902: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1903: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1904: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1905: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1906: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1907: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1908: <p>
1909:
1.301 jose 1910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1911: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1912: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1913: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1914:
1915: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1916: <p>
1.191 jufi 1917:
1.247 jufi 1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1919: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1920: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1921: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1922: </strong></font><br>
1923:
1924: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1925: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1926: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1927: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1928: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1929: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1930: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1931: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1932: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1933: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1934: familiar?
1935: <p>
1.247 jufi 1936: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1937:
1.178 louis 1938: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1939: <ul>
1.178 louis 1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1942: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1943: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1944: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1945: </strong></font><br>
1946:
1947: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1948: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1949: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1950: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1951: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1952: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1953: <p>
1954:
1.247 jufi 1955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1956: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1957: Open source under the hood</a>,
1958: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1959: </strong></font><br>
1960:
1961: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1962: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1963: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1964: <p>
1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1967: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1968: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1969: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1973: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1974: <p>
1.247 jufi 1975: </ul>
1.179 louis 1976:
1.174 louis 1977:
1.175 louis 1978: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1979: <ul>
1.175 louis 1980:
1.247 jufi 1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1982: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1983: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1984: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1985: </strong></font><br>
1986:
1987: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1988: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1989: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1990: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1991: <p>
1992:
1.247 jufi 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1994: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1995: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1996: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1997: </strong></font><br>
1998:
1999: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2000: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2001: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2002: <p>
1.247 jufi 2003: </ul>
1.175 louis 2004:
1.176 louis 2005:
1.172 mickey 2006: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2007: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2010: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2011: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2012: </strong></font><br>
2013:
2014: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2015: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2016: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2017: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2018: <p>
2019:
1.247 jufi 2020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2021: <a
1.269 deraadt 2022: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2023: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2024: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2025: </strong></font><br>
2026:
2027: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2028: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2029: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2030: <p>
2031:
1.247 jufi 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2033: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2034: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2035: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2036: </strong></font><br>
2037:
2038: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2039: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2040: <p>
2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2043: <a
1.269 deraadt 2044: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2045: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2046: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2047: </strong></font><br>
2048:
2049: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2050: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2051: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2052: our own Theo de Raadt.
2053: <p>
2054:
1.247 jufi 2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2056: <a
1.269 deraadt 2057: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2058: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2059: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2060: </strong></font><br>
2061:
2062: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2063: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2064: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2065: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2066: shut down.]
2067: <p>
2068:
1.247 jufi 2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2070: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2071: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2072: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2073: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2074: </strong></font><br>
2075:
2076: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2077: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2078: <p>
1.247 jufi 2079: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2080:
1.161 louis 2081: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2082: <ul>
1.161 louis 2083:
1.247 jufi 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2085: <a
1.269 deraadt 2086: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2087: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2088: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2089: </strong></font><br>
2090:
2091: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2092: by John Wolley
2093: <p>
2094:
1.247 jufi 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2096: <a
1.269 deraadt 2097: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2098: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2099: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2100: </strong></font><br>
2101:
2102: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2103: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2104: OpenBSD).
2105: <p>
2106:
1.247 jufi 2107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2108: <a
1.247 jufi 2109: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2110: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2111: </strong></font><br>
2112:
2113: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2114: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2115: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2116: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2117: and hindsight.
2118: <p>
2119:
1.247 jufi 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2121: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2122: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2123: </strong></font><br>
2124:
2125: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2126: <p>
2127:
1.247 jufi 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2129: <a
1.168 provos 2130: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2131: December 7, 2000
2132: </strong></font><br>
2133:
2134: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2135: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2136: us explain.
2137: <p>
2138:
1.247 jufi 2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2140: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2141: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2142: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2143: December 6, 2000
2144: </strong></font><br>
2145:
2146: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2147: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2148: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2149: <p>
2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2152: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2153: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2154: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2155: </strong></font><br>
2156:
2157: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2158: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2159: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2160: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2161: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2162: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2163: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2164: <p>
2165:
2166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2167: <a
1.226 horacio 2168: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2169: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2170: </strong></font><br>
2171:
2172: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2173: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2174: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2175: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2176: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2177: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2178: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2179: <p>
1.162 millert 2180:
1.247 jufi 2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2182: <a
1.161 louis 2183: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2184: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2185: </strong></font><br>
2186:
2187: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2188: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2189: <p>
2190:
1.247 jufi 2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2192: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2193: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2194: </strong></font><br>
2195:
2196: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2197: <p>
2198:
2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2201: <a
1.226 horacio 2202: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2203: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2204: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2205: </strong></font><br>
2206:
2207: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2208: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2209: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2210: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2211: <p>
1.247 jufi 2212: </ul>
1.169 louis 2213:
1.158 louis 2214: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2215: <ul>
1.147 louis 2216:
1.247 jufi 2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2218: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2219: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
2222: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2223: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2224: <p>
2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2227: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2228: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2229: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2230: </strong></font><br>
2231: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2232: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2233: <p>
2234:
1.247 jufi 2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2236: <a
2237: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2238: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2239: </strong></font><br>
2240:
2241: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2242: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2243: <p>
2244:
1.247 jufi 2245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2246: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2247: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2248: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2249:
1.213 horacio 2250: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 2251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
2252: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2253: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2254: <p>
1.215 horacio 2255:
1.247 jufi 2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2257: <a
2258: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2259: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2260: </strong></font><br>
2261:
2262: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2263: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2264: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2265: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2266: much of the attitude too).
2267: <p>
1.161 louis 2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2270: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2271: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2272: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2273:
1.157 louis 2274: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2275: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2276: <p>
1.247 jufi 2277: </ul>
1.157 louis 2278:
2279: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2280: <ul>
1.157 louis 2281:
1.247 jufi 2282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2283: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2284: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2285: </strong></font><br>
2286:
2287: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2288: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2289: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2290: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2291: <p>
2292:
1.247 jufi 2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2294: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2295: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2296: </strong></font><br>
2297:
2298: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2299: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2300: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2301: it because they love coding...
2302: <p>
2303:
1.247 jufi 2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2305: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2306: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2307: </strong></font><br>
2308:
2309: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2310: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2311: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2312: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2313: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2314: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2315: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2316: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2317: <p>
2318:
1.247 jufi 2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2320: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2321: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2322: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2323: </strong></font><br>
2324:
2325: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2326: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2327: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2328: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2329: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2330: the pizza.
2331: <p>
2332:
1.247 jufi 2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2334: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2335: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2336: </strong></font><br>
2337:
2338: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2339: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2340: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2341: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2342: problems.
2343: <p>
2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2346: <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 2347: </strong></font><br>
2348:
1.222 miod 2349: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2350: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2351: - whether they like it or not.
2352: <p>
2353:
1.247 jufi 2354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2355: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2356: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2357: </strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2360: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2361: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2362: <p>
1.148 aaron 2363:
1.247 jufi 2364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2365: <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 2366: </strong></font><br>
2367:
2368: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2369: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2370: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2371: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2372: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2373: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2374: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2375: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2376: <p>
2377:
1.247 jufi 2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2379: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2380: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2381: </strong></font><br>
2382:
2383: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2384: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2385: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2386: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2387: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2388: <p>
1.247 jufi 2389: </ul>
1.147 louis 2390:
1.138 louis 2391: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2392: <ul>
1.138 louis 2393:
1.247 jufi 2394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2395: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2396: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2397: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2398: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2399: </strong></font><br>
2400:
1.227 horacio 2401: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2402: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2403: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2404: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2405: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2406: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2407: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2408: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2409: <p>
2410:
1.247 jufi 2411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2412: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2413: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2414: </strong></font><br>
2415:
2416: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2417: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2418: groups, and even Linux.
2419: <p>
2420:
1.247 jufi 2421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2422: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2423: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2424: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2425: </strong></font><br>
2426:
2427: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2428: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2429: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2430: library after installing the OS.
2431: <p>
2432:
1.247 jufi 2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2434: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2435: Sys Admin, September 2000
2436: </strong></font><br>
2437:
2438: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2439: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2440: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2441: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2442: (<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>,
2443: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2444: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2445: <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 2446: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2447: out of the system.
2448: <p>
2449:
1.247 jufi 2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2451: <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
2452: </strong></font><br>
2453:
2454: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2455: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2456: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2457: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2458: the IP filtering and address translation.
2459: <p>
1.301 jose 2460:
2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2462: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2463: </strong></font><br>
2464:
2465: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2466: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2467: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2468: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2469: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2470: <p>
1.247 jufi 2471: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2472:
1.131 louis 2473: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2474: <ul>
1.131 louis 2475:
1.247 jufi 2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2477: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2478: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2479: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2480: </strong></font><br>
2481:
2482: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2483: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2484: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2485: <p>
2486:
1.247 jufi 2487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2488: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2489: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2490: </strong></font><br>
2491:
2492: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2493: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2494: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2495: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2496: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2497: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2498: note of"</i>.
2499: <p>
2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2502: <a
1.247 jufi 2503: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2504: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2505: </strong></font><br>
2506:
2507: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2508: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2509: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2510: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2511: <p>
2512:
1.247 jufi 2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2514: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2515: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2516: </strong></font><br>
2517:
2518: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2519: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2520: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2521: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2522: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2523: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2524: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2525: <p>
2526:
1.247 jufi 2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2528: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2529: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2530: 2000
2531: </strong></font><br>
2532:
2533: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2534: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2535: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2536: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2537: against current industry practices.
2538: <p>
2539:
1.247 jufi 2540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2541: <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
2542: </strong></font><br>
2543:
2544: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2545: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2546: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2547: <p>
2548:
1.247 jufi 2549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2550: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2551: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2552: </strong></font><br>
2553:
2554: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2555: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2556: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2557: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2558: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2559: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2560: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2561: <p>
2562:
1.247 jufi 2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2564: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2565: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2566: </strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2569: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2570: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2571: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2572: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2573: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2574: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2575: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2576: <p>
1.247 jufi 2577: </ul>
1.131 louis 2578:
1.118 louis 2579: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2580: <ul>
1.118 louis 2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2583: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2584: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2585: </strong></font><br>
2586:
2587: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2588: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2589: about time. The article mentions that
2590: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2591: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2592: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2593: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2594: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2595: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2596: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2597: <p>
2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2600: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2601: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2602: </strong></font><br>
2603:
2604: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2605: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2606: of OpenSSH.
2607: <p>
2608:
1.247 jufi 2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2610: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2611: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2612: </strong></font><br>
2613:
2614: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2615: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2616: bridging.
2617: <p>
2618:
1.247 jufi 2619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2620: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2621: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2622: </strong></font><br>
2623:
1.121 deraadt 2624: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2625: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2626: <p>
2627:
1.247 jufi 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2629: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2630: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2634: <p>
2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2637: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2638: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2639: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2640: </strong></font><br>
2641:
1.120 deraadt 2642: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2643: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2644: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2645: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2646: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2647: <p>
2648:
1.247 jufi 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2650: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2651: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2652: </strong></font><br>
2653:
1.222 miod 2654: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2655: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2656: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2657: protocols and their quirks.
2658: <p>
2659:
1.247 jufi 2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2661: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2662: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2663: </strong></font><br>
2664:
2665: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2666: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2667: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2668: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2669: <p>
2670:
1.247 jufi 2671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2672: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2673: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2674: </strong></font><br>
2675:
2676: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2677: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2678: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2679: <p>
2680:
1.247 jufi 2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2682: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2683: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2684: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2685: </strong></font><br>
2686:
2687: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2688: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2689: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2690: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2691: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2692: <p>
1.247 jufi 2693: </ul>
1.118 louis 2694:
1.104 louis 2695: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2696: <ul>
1.104 louis 2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2699: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2700: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2701: </strong></font><br>
2702:
2703: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2704: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2705: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2706: be a bit dry.
2707: <p>
2708:
1.247 jufi 2709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2710: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2711: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2712: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2713: </strong></font><br>
2714: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2715: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2716: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2717: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2718: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2719: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2720: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2721: <p>
2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2724: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2725: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2726: 2000
1.128 louis 2727: </strong></font><br>
2728:
2729: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2730: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2731: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2732: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2733: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2734: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2738: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2739: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2740: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2741:
2742: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2743: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2744: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2745: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2746: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2747: <p>
1.110 louis 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2750: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2751: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2752: </strong></font><br>
2753:
2754: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2755: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2756: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2757: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2758: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2759: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2760: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2761: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2762: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2763: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2767: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2768: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2769:
2770: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2771: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2772: <p>
1.108 louis 2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2775: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2776: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2777: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2778:
2779: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2780: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2781: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2782: <p>
1.106 louis 2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2785: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2786: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2787: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2788:
2789: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2790: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2791: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2792: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2793: <p>
1.107 louis 2794:
1.247 jufi 2795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2796: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2797: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2798: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2799:
2800: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2801: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2802: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2803: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2804: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2805: <p>
1.105 louis 2806:
1.247 jufi 2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2808: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2809: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2810: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2811:
1.113 naddy 2812: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2813: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2814: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2815: <p>
1.104 louis 2816:
1.247 jufi 2817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2818: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2819: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2820: </strong></font><br>
2821:
2822: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2823: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2824: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2825: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2826: <p>
1.301 jose 2827:
2828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2829: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2830: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2831: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2832:
2833: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2834: hardware-supported cryptography.
2835: <p>
1.247 jufi 2836: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2837:
1.85 louis 2838: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2839: <ul>
1.85 louis 2840:
1.247 jufi 2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2842: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2843: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2844: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2845:
2846: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2847: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2848: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2849: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2850: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2851: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2852: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2853: <p>
1.99 louis 2854:
1.247 jufi 2855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2856: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2857: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2858: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2859:
2860: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2861: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2862: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2863: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2864: <p>
1.100 louis 2865:
1.247 jufi 2866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2867: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2868: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2869: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2870:
2871: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2872: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2873: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2874: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2875: <p>
1.95 louis 2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2878: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2879: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2880: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2881:
2882: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2883: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2884: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2885: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2886: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2887: <p>
1.92 louis 2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2890: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2891: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2892: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2893:
2894: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2895: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2896: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2897: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2898: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2899: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2900: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2901: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2902: <p>
1.91 louis 2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2905: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2906: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2907: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2908:
2909: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2910: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2911: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2912: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2913: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2914: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2915: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2916: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2917: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2918: <p>
1.90 louis 2919:
1.247 jufi 2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2921: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2922: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2923: </strong></font><br>
2924: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2925: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2926: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2927: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2928: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2929: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2930: <p>
2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2933: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2934: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2935: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2936:
1.113 naddy 2937: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2938: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2939: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2940: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2941: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2942: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2943: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2944: <p>
1.87 louis 2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2947: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2948: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2949: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2950:
2951: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2952: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2953: <p>
1.85 louis 2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2956: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2957: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2958: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2959:
2960: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2961: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2962: <p>
2963:
2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2965: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2966: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2967: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2968:
2969: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2970: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2971: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2972: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2973: <p>
1.89 louis 2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2976: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2977: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2978: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2979:
2980: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2981: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2982: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2983: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2984: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2985: </ul>
1.85 louis 2986:
1.78 deraadt 2987: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2988: <ul>
1.74 louis 2989:
1.247 jufi 2990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2991: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2992: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2993: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2994: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2995:
2996: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2997: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2998: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2999: <p>
1.83 louis 3000:
1.247 jufi 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3002: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3003: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3004: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3005:
3006: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3007: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3008: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3009: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3010: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3011: <p>
1.93 louis 3012:
1.247 jufi 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3014: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3015: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3016: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3017: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3018:
1.83 louis 3019: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3020: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3021: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3022: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3023: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3024: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3025: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3026: <p>
1.82 aaron 3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3029: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3030: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3031: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3032:
1.83 louis 3033: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3034: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3035: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3036: <p>
1.80 louis 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3039: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3040: Bad Press</a>,
3041: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3042: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3043:
3044: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3045: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3046: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3047: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3048: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3049: <p>
1.247 jufi 3050: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3051:
3052: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3053: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3054:
1.247 jufi 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3056: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3057: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3058: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3059: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3060:
3061: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3062: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3063: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3064: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3065: <p>
1.74 louis 3066:
1.247 jufi 3067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3068: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3069: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3070: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3071:
1.219 horacio 3072: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3073: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3074: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3075: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3076: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3077: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3078: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3079: <p>
1.88 louis 3080:
1.247 jufi 3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3082: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3083: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3084: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3085:
3086: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3087: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3088: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3089: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3090: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3091: <p>
1.81 louis 3092:
1.247 jufi 3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3094: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3095: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3096: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3097:
3098: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3099: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3100: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3101: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3102: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3103: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3104: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3105: <p>
1.90 louis 3106:
1.247 jufi 3107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3108: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3109: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3110: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3111:
3112: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3113: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3114: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3115: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3116: <p>
1.247 jufi 3117: </ul>
1.71 louis 3118:
1.69 deraadt 3119: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3120: <ul>
1.70 louis 3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3123: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3124: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3125: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3126:
3127: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3128: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3129: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3130: <p>
1.70 louis 3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3133: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3134: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3135: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3136:
3137: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3138: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3139: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.68 louis 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3143: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3144: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3145: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3146: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3147:
1.111 jufi 3148: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3149: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3150: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3151: "secure by default" installation.
3152: <p>
1.64 louis 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3155: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3156: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3157: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3158:
1.113 naddy 3159: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3160: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3161: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3162: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3163: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3164: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3165: <p>
1.66 louis 3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3168: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3169: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3170: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3171:
3172: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3173: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3174: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3175: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3176: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3177: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3178: <p>
1.83 louis 3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3181: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3182: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3183: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3184:
3185: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3186: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3187: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3188: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3189: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.64 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3193: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3194: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3196:
3197: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3198: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3199: <p>
1.301 jose 3200:
3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3202: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3203: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3204: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3205: </strong></font><br>
3206:
3207: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3208: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3209: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3210: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3211: Giving way to
3212: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3213: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3214: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3215: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3216: <p>
1.247 jufi 3217: </ul>
1.65 louis 3218:
1.69 deraadt 3219: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3220: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3223: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3224: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3225: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3226:
3227: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3228: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3229: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3230: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3231: <p>
1.88 louis 3232:
1.247 jufi 3233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3234: <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 3235: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3236:
3237: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3238: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3239: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3240: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3241: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3242: <p>
1.60 louis 3243:
1.247 jufi 3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3245: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3246: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3247: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3248: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3249:
3250: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3251: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3252: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3253: <p>
1.58 louis 3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3256: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3257: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3258:
3259: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3260: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3261: <p>
1.53 louis 3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3264: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3265: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3266: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3267:
3268: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3269: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3270: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3271: <p>
1.99 louis 3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3274: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3275: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3276:
3277: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3278: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3279: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3280: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3281: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3284: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3285: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3286: </strong></font><br>
3287:
3288: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3289: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3290: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3291: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3292: <p>
3293:
1.247 jufi 3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3295: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3296: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3297: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3298:
3299: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3300: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3301: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3302:
1.247 jufi 3303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3304: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3305: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3306:
3307: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3308: in
1.247 jufi 3309: <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 3310: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3311: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3312: <p>
1.53 louis 3313:
1.247 jufi 3314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3315: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3316: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3317: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3318: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3319:
1.58 louis 3320: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3321: <p>
1.301 jose 3322:
3323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3324: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3325: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3326: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3327: Informacyjny, January 2000
3328: </strong></font><br>
3329:
3330: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3331: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3332: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3333: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3334: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3335: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3336: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3337: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3338: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3339: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3341: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3342: <p>
3343:
3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3345: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3346: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3347: </strong></font><br>
3348:
3349: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3350: <p>
3351: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3352:
1.69 deraadt 3353: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3354: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3357: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3358: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3359: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3360: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3361:
1.58 louis 3362: Kurt Seifried
3363: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3364: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3365: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3366: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3367:
1.247 jufi 3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3369: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3370: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3371: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3372:
3373: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3374: <p>
1.96 louis 3375:
1.247 jufi 3376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3377: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3378: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3379: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3380: </strong></font><br>
3381:
3382: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3383: <p>
3384:
3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3386: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3387: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3388: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3389:
3390: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3391: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3392: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3393: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3394: <p>
1.247 jufi 3395: </ul>
1.86 louis 3396:
1.69 deraadt 3397: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3398: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3399:
1.247 jufi 3400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3401: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3402: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3403: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3404:
3405: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3406: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3407: <p>
1.61 louis 3408:
1.247 jufi 3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3410: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3411: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3412: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3413: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3414:
3415: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3416: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3417: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3418: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3419: right -- or at least strives to".
3420: <p>
1.48 louis 3421:
1.247 jufi 3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3423: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3424: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3425: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3426: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3427: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3428: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3429: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3430: <p>
1.61 louis 3431:
1.247 jufi 3432: <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 3433: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3434: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3435:
3436: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3437: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3438: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3439: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.46 louis 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3443: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3444: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3445: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3446:
3447: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3448: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3449: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3452: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3453: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3454: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3455:
3456: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3457: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3458: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3459: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3460: <p>
1.247 jufi 3461: </ul>
1.70 louis 3462:
1.69 deraadt 3463: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3464: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3467: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3468: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3469: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3470: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3471:
3472: Kurt Seifried
3473: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3474: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3475: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3476: <p>
1.44 philen 3477:
1.247 jufi 3478: <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 3479: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3480: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3481:
3482: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3483: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <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 3486: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3487: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3488:
3489: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3490: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3491:
1.247 jufi 3492: <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 3493: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3494: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3495:
3496: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3497: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3498: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3499: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3500: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <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 3503: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3504: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3505:
1.36 louis 3506: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3507: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3508:
1.247 jufi 3509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3510: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3511: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3512: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3513:
3514: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3515: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3516: </ul>
1.38 louis 3517:
1.69 deraadt 3518: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3519: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3520:
1.247 jufi 3521: <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 3522: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3523: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3524:
3525: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3526: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3527: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3528:
1.113 naddy 3529: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3530: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3531: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3532: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3533:
3534: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3535: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3536: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3537: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3538: <blockquote>
3539: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3540: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3541: <br>
3542: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3543: </code>
3544: </blockquote>
3545: <p>
3546:
1.247 jufi 3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3548: <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 3549: <p>
3550:
3551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3552: <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 3553: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3554:
3555: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3556: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3557: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3558: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3559:
1.247 jufi 3560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3561: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3562: Sept. 28, 1999
3563: </strong></font><br>
3564:
3565: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3566: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3567: translating and reprinting articles from
3568: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3569: <p>
3570:
3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3572: <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 3573: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3574:
3575: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3576: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3577: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3578: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3579: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3580: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3581: <p>
1.19 louis 3582:
1.113 naddy 3583: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3584: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3585: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3586:
3587: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3588: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3589: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3590: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3591: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3592: <p>
1.16 louis 3593:
1.247 jufi 3594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3595: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3596: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3597: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3598:
1.57 louis 3599: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3600: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3601: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3602: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3603:
1.247 jufi 3604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3605: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3606: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3607: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3608:
1.113 naddy 3609: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3612: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3613: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3614: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3615:
1.23 louis 3616: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3617: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3618: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3619: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3620: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3621: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3624: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3625: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3626: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3627:
1.199 pvalchev 3628: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3629: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3630: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3631: installation.
1.113 naddy 3632: <p>
1.47 louis 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3635: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3636: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3637: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3638:
1.301 jose 3639: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3640: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3641: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3642: </ul>
1.57 louis 3643:
1.69 deraadt 3644: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3645: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3646:
1.247 jufi 3647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3648: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3649: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3650: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3651:
3652: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3653: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3654: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3655: <p>
1.12 louis 3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3658: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3659: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3660: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3661:
3662: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3663: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3664: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3665: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3666: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3667: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3668: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3669: <p>
1.247 jufi 3670: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3671:
1.69 deraadt 3672: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3673: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3674:
1.247 jufi 3675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3676: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3677: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3678:
3679: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3680: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3681: available."
1.113 naddy 3682: <p>
1.301 jose 3683:
3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3685: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3686: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3687: </strong></font><br>
3688:
3689: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3690: <p>
1.247 jufi 3691: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3692:
1.69 deraadt 3693: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3694: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3695:
1.247 jufi 3696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3697: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3698: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3699:
3700: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3701: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3702: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3703: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3704: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3705: <p>
1.33 louis 3706:
1.247 jufi 3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3708: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3709: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3710: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3711:
1.113 naddy 3712: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3713: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3714: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3715: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3716: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3717: <p>
1.247 jufi 3718: </ul>
1.57 louis 3719:
1.69 deraadt 3720: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3721: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3724: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3725: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3726: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3727:
3728: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3729: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3730: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3733: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3734: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3735: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3736: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3737:
3738: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3739: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3742: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3743:
1.113 naddy 3744: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3747: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3748: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3749: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3750:
3751: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3752: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3753: </ul>
1.23 louis 3754:
1.69 deraadt 3755: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3756: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3757:
1.247 jufi 3758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3759: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3760: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3761:
3762: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3763: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3764: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3767: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3768: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3769: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3770:
3771: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3772: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3773: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3774: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3775: </ul>
1.57 louis 3776:
1.69 deraadt 3777: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3778: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3779:
1.247 jufi 3780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3781: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3782: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3783: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3784:
3785: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3786: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3787: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3788: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3789: <p>
1.15 louis 3790:
1.247 jufi 3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3792: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3793: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3794: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3795:
3796: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3797: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3798: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3799: columns."
1.113 naddy 3800: <p>
1.247 jufi 3801: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3802:
1.69 deraadt 3803: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3804: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3807: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3808: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3809: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3810:
3811: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3812: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3813:
1.113 naddy 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3815: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3816: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3817:
3818: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3819: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3820: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3821: </ul>
1.57 louis 3822:
1.69 deraadt 3823: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3824: <ul>
1.301 jose 3825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3826: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3827: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3828: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3829:
3830: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3831: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3832: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3833: <p>
3834:
3835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3836: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3837: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3838: Nov 13, 1998 and
3839: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3840: Datateknik</a>,
3841: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3842:
3843: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3844: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3845: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3846: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3847: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3848:
1.113 naddy 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3850: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3851: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3852: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3853:
1.222 miod 3854: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3855: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3856: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3857: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3858: <p>
1.247 jufi 3859: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3860:
1.69 deraadt 3861: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3862: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3863:
1.247 jufi 3864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3865: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3866: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3867:
1.69 deraadt 3868: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3869: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3870: <p>
1.247 jufi 3871: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3872:
1.69 deraadt 3873: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3874: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3875:
1.247 jufi 3876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3877: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3878: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3879: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3880:
3881: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3882: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3883: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3886: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3887: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3888: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3889: <p>
1.247 jufi 3890: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3891:
1.69 deraadt 3892: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3893: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3896: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 3897: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
3898: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3899: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3900: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3901:
3902: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3903: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3904: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3905: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3906: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3907: <p>
1.247 jufi 3908: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3909:
3910: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3911: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3914: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3915: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3916:
1.69 deraadt 3917: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3918: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3919: <p>
1.112 naddy 3920:
1.247 jufi 3921: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3922: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3923:
1.292 camield 3924: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3925: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3926: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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