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1.378 henning 19: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
1.384 ! jose 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
! 24: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
! 27: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
! 28: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
! 29: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
! 30: <p>
! 31:
1.378 henning 32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.381 ian 33: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">Interview
34: with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
35: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
36: </strong></font><br>
37: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
38: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
39: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
40: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
41: (quote:
42: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
43: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 44: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 45: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
46: the other developers for their work on the system.
47: <p>
48:
49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 ! jose 50: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
! 51: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
! 52: </strong></font><br>
! 53: The start of a short series of articles on puttong OpenBSD on the <a
! 54: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
! 55: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
! 56: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
! 57: too.
! 58: <p>
! 59:
! 60:
! 61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 62: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
63: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 64: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 65: OpenBSD source code using
66: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
67: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
68: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
69: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
70: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
71: <p>
72: </ul>
73:
1.374 jose 74: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
75: <ul>
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.375 jose 77: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
78: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
79: </strong></font><br>
80: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
81: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
82: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
83: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
84: it."
85: <p>
86:
87: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 88: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
89: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
90: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
91: </strong></font><br/>
92: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
93: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
94: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
95: <p>
96: </ul>
97:
1.369 ian 98: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
99: <ul>
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 ! jose 101: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
! 102: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
! 103: </strong></font><br/>
! 104: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
! 105: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
! 106: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
! 107: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
! 108: <p>
! 109:
! 110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 111: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
112: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
113: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
114: </strong></font><br/>
115: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
116: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
117: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
118: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
119: form factor.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
123: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
124: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
125: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
126: Features</a>,
127: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
128: </strong></font><br/>
129: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
130: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
131: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
132: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
133: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
134: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
135: <p>
136: This article can also be found online at:
137: <ul>
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
139: <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>,
140: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
141: </strong></font>
142: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
143: </ul>
144: <p>
145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.372 jose 146: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">Adding
1.371 jose 147: System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
148: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
149: </strong></font><br/>
150: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
151: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
152: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
153: </p>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 156: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 157: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 158: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 159: </strong></font><br/>
160: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
161: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
162: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
163: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
164: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
165: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
166: and its history with OpenBSD.
167: </ul>
168:
1.368 henning 169: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
170: <ul>
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 172: [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 173: </strong></font><br>
174: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
175: </ul>
176:
1.364 jose 177: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
178: <ul>
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 180: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
181: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
182: UNIX Review,
183: July, 2003.
184: </strong></font><br>
185: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
186: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
187: who want more information.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 191: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
192: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
193: Government Computer News,
194: July 22, 2003.
195: </strong></font><br>
196: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
197: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
198: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
199: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
203: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
204: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
205: SANS Institute,
206: July 22, 2003.
207: </strong></font><br>
208: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 209: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 210: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
211: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
212: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
213: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
214: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
215: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
216: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
217: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
218: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
219: <p>
220:
221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 222: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
223: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
224: OnLamp.com,
225: July 17, 2003.
226: </strong></font><br>
227: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
228: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
229: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
230: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
231: have been working on.
232:
233: </ul>
234:
1.356 jose 235: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 236: <ul>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 239: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
240: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
241: UNIX Review,
242: June, 2003.
243: </strong></font><br>
244: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
245: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
246: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
247: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
248: <p>
249:
250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 251: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
252: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
253: eWeek,
254: June 23, 2003.
255: </strong></font><br>
256: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
257: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
258: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
259: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
260: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
261: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 265: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
266: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
267: Software Development Online,
268: June, 2003.
269: </strong></font><br>
270: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
271: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
272: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
273: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
274: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
275: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
276: current activities.
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 280: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
281: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 282: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
283: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
284: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
285: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
286: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
287: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
288: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
289: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 290: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 291: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
292: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
293: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
294: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
295: decisions.
296: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
297: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
298: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
299: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 300: <p>
301:
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 303: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
304: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
305: Page 58, eWeek,
306: June 2, 2003.
307: </strong></font><br>
308: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
309: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
310: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
311: been addressed in -current.
312: <p>
313:
1.356 jose 314: </ul>
315:
316: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
317: <ul>
318:
1.355 jose 319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 320: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
321: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
322: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
323: </strong></font><br>
324: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
325: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
326: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
327: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
328: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
329: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
330: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
331: <p>
332:
333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 334: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
335: Beyond Linux</a>,
336: InfoWorld,
337: May 23, 2003.
338: </strong></font><br>
339: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
340: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
341: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
342: compared to the GPL.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 346: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
347: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
348: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 349: May 17, 2003.
350: </strong></font><br>
351: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
352: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
353: the business section and half of another page inside
354: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
355: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
356: in talking about the project's history and goals.
357: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
358: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
359: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
360: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 361: <br>
362: This article can also be found online at:
363: <ul>
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
365: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
366: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
367: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
368: May 17, 2003
369: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 370: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
372: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
373: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
374: Montreal Gazette,
375: May 21, 2003
376: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 377: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 378: <p>
1.346 ian 379:
380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 381: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 382: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 383: May 7, 2003.
384: </strong></font><br>
385: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
386: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
387: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 391: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
392: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
393: OsOpinion,
394: May 6, 2003.
395: </strong></font><br>
396: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
397: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
398: <br>
399: This article can also be found online at:
400: <ul>
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
402: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
403: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
404: NewsFactor Network.
405: </strong></font>
406: </ul>
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 410: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 411: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
412: ITBusiness,
413: May 2, 2003.
414: </strong></font><br>
415: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
416: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
417: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
418: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
419: <p>
420:
421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 422: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
423: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
424: InfoWorld,
425: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 426: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 427: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
428: <br>
429: This article can also be found online at:
430: <ul>
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
432: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
433: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
434: IDG Singapore.
435: </strong></font>
436: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 437: <p>
438:
1.339 jose 439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
440: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
441: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 442: ZDNet,
443: May 1, 2003.
444: </strong></font><br>
445: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 446: someone using parts from previous articles.
447: <br>
1.341 deraadt 448: This article can also be found online at:
449: <ul>
450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
451: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
452: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
453: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 454: </strong></font>
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
456: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
457: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
458: CNET News.com.
459: </strong></font>
460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
461: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
462: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
463: ZDNet UK.
464: </strong></font>
465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
467: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
468: Help Net Security, Croatia.
469: </strong></font>
470: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 471: <p>
1.339 jose 472:
1.341 deraadt 473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 474: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 475: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
476: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
477: May 1, 2003.
478: </strong></font><br>
479: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
480: that have been added
481: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
482: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
483: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 484: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 485: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
486: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
487: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 488: <p>
489:
490: </ul>
491:
1.253 ian 492: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
493: <ul>
1.255 ian 494:
1.260 ian 495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 496: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 497: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
498: TechRepublic,
499: April 28, 2003.
500: </strong></font><br>
501: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
502: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 503: work.<br>
504: Can also be found online at:
505: <ul>
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
507: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
508: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
509: ZDNet UK.
510: </strong></font>
511: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 515: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
516: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
517: IDG,
518: April 24, 2003.
519: </strong></font><br>
520: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
521: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
522: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
523: Can also be found online at:
524: <ul>
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
526: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
527: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 528: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 529: </strong></font>
530: </ul>
531: <p>
532:
533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
534: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 535: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 536: Slate,
537: April 24, 2003.
538: </strong></font><br>
539: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
540: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
541: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
542: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 546: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
547: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
548: April 24, 2003.
549: </strong></font><br>
550: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
551: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
552: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
553: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
554: <p>
555:
556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 557: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
558: April 24, 2003.
559: </strong></font><br>
560: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
561: the free software community".
562: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
563: other articles.
564: <p>
565:
566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 567: <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 568: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
569: </strong></font><br>
570: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
571: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
572: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
573: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
574: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
575: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
576: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
577: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
578: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
579: <br/>
580: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
581: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
582: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
583: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 584: <br>
585: Can also be found online at:
586: <ul>
587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
589: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
590: Common Dreams NewsCenter
591: </strong></font>
592: </ul>
1.324 ian 593: <p>
594:
595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
596: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
597: Wired, April 24, 2003.
598: </strong></font><br>
599: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
600: article above.
601: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
602: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
603: wasting them."
1.332 ian 604: <br>
605: Can also be found online at:
606: <ul>
607: <li>
608: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
609: </strong></font>
610: </ul>
1.324 ian 611: <p>
612:
613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 614: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
615: </strong></font><br>
616: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 620: <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.
621: </strong></font><br>
622: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
623: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
624: <p>
625:
626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 627: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
628: April 23, 2003.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 634: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 635: April 22, 2003.
636: </strong></font><br>
637: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 641: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
642: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
643: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 644: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 645: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
646: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
647: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
648: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
649: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
650: Can also be found online at:
651: <ul>
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
653: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 654: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
655: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 656: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
658: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 659: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
660: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 661: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 662: </ul>
663: <p>
664:
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 666: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
667: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 668: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 669: </strong></font><br>
670: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 671: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
672: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
673: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
674: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
675: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
676: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 677: <p>
678:
679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 680: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
681: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 682: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
683: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 684: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
685: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
686: at UPenn and DARPA.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 690: [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,
691: France
1.315 deraadt 692: April 18, 2003.
693: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 694: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 695: <p>
696:
697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 698: [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 699: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 700: </strong></font><br>
701: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
702: <p>
703:
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 705: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
706: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
707: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 708: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 709: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
710: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
711: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
712: <p>
713:
714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 715: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
716: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 717: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 718: </strong></font><br>
719: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
720: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
721: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 722: American century.
1.267 deraadt 723: <p>
724:
725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 726: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
727: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 728: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 729: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 730: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
731: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
732: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
733: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
734: Can also be found online at:
735: <ul>
736: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
737: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 738: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 739: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 740: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 741: <p>
742:
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 744: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 745: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 746: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 747: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 748: </strong></font><br>
749: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 750: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
751: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
752: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
753: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
756: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
757: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
758: New York Times.
759: </strong></font>(free registration required)
760:
1.273 deraadt 761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
762: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 763: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 764: ABC News.
765: </strong></font>
766:
767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 768: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 769: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 770: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 771: </strong></font>
772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 774: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 775: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 776: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 777: </strong></font>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 780: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
781: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 782: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 783: </strong></font>
784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 786: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 787: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 788: Times Daily, AL.
789: </strong></font>
790:
791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
792: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
793: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
794: Boston.com, MA.
795: </strong></font>
796:
797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 798: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 799: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 800: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
801: </strong></font>
802:
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 804: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
805: [Article was pulled]</a>
806: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 807: </strong></font>
808:
809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
810: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
811: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
812: Infoshop News.
813: </strong></font>
814:
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
816: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
817: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
818: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
819: </strong></font>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 822: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
823: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
824: Raleigh News, NC.
825: </strong></font>
826:
827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 828: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 829: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
830: Napa News, CA.
831: </strong></font>
832:
833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 834: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 835: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
836: NEPA News, PA.
837: </strong></font>
838:
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
840: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
841: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
842: Wired News.
843: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 844: <br>
845: <li>
1.333 deraadt 846: <font color="#009000"><strong>
847: [JAPANESE]
848: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
849: Wired News Japan</a>
850: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 851:
1.271 deraadt 852: </ul>
853: <p>
1.272 deraadt 854: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
855: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 856: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
857: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
858: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
859: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
860: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
861: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 862: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 863: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
864: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
865: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 866: <p>
867: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 868:
869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 870: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 871: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
872: Indianapolis Star, IN.
873: </strong></font>
874:
875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 876: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
877: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
878: Miami Herald, FL.
879: </strong></font>
880:
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 882: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 883: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
884: </strong></font>
885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
887: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 888: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 889: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 890: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 891:
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
893: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
894: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
895: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
896: ABC News.
897: </strong></font>
898:
1.276 deraadt 899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
900: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 901: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 902: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 903: </strong></font>
904:
1.286 dhartmei 905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 906: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 907: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
908: Wilmington Star, NC.
909: </strong></font>
910:
1.300 jose 911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
912: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
913: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
914: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
915: </strong></font>
916:
1.309 jose 917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
918: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
919: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
920: Globe Technology.
921: </strong></font>
922:
1.263 deraadt 923: </ul>
1.262 beck 924: <p>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 927: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
928: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 929: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 930: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 931: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 932: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
933: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
934: <p>
935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 937: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
938: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
939: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 940: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 941: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
942: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
943: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
944: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
945: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
946: and simply restates other press reports.
947: <p>
948:
949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 950: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
951: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
952: OS News, April 18, 2003.
953: </strong></font><br>
954: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 958: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
959: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 960: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 961: </strong></font><br>
962: Another report on the DARPA funding.
963: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
964: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 968: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
969: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
970: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
971: April 17, 2003.
972: </strong></font><br>
973: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
974: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
975: Tech Anthems</a>
976: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
977: 4 so far.
978: <p>
979:
980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 981: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
982: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 983: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 984: </strong></font><br>
985: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
986: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
987: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
988: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
989: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
990: Goes on to say:
991: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
992: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
993: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
994: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 995: This article is also found online at:
996: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
998: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
999: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1000: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1001: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1003: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1004: ZDnet</a>,
1005: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1006: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1008: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1009: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1010: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1011: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1012: </ul>
1.260 ian 1013: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1014:
1.260 ian 1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1016: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1017: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1018: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1019: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1020: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1021: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1022: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1023: without notice or justification.
1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1027: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1028: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1029: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1030: </strong></font><br>
1031: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1032: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1033: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1034: effective today, without any warning..."
1035: <p>
1.257 ian 1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1038: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1039: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1040: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1041: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1042: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1043: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1044: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1045: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1046: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1047: <p>
1048:
1049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1050: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1051: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1052: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1053: </strong></font><br>
1054: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1055: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1056: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1057: quoting two of them:
1058: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1059: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1060: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1061: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1062: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1063: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1064: <p>
1065:
1.255 ian 1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1067: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1068: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1069: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1070: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1071: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1072: <p>
1073:
1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1075: [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 1076: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1077: </strong></font><br>
1078: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1079: <p>
1080:
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1082: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1083: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1084: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1085: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1086: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1087: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1088: security experts for more than three decades."
1089: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1090: <p>
1.261 ian 1091:
1.254 drahn 1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1093: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1094: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1095: </strong></font><br>
1096: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1097: <p>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1100: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1101: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1102: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1103: </strong></font><br>
1104: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1105: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1106: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1107: <p>
1108:
1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1110: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1111: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1112: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1113: </strong></font><br>
1114: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1115: from US DARPA.
1116: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1117: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1118: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1119: the BSD license.
1120: <p>
1121: </ul>
1122:
1.251 ian 1123: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1124: <ul>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1127: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1128: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1129: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1130: </strong></font><br>
1131:
1132: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1133: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1134: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1135: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1136: <p>
1137:
1138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1139: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1140: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1141: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1142: </strong></font><br>
1143: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1144: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1145: Mentions
1146: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1147: and
1148: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1149: programs.
1150: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1151: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1152: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1153: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1154: <p>
1.325 ian 1155: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1156: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1159: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1160: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1161: </strong></font><br>
1162: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1163: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1164: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1165: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1166: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1167: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1168: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1169: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1170: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1171: put into service."
1172: <p>
1173: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1174: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1175: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1176: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1177: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1178: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1179: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1180: computers with security features."
1181: <p>
1.329 ian 1182:
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1184: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1185: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1186: Slate,
1187: March 3, 2003.
1188: </strong></font><br>
1189: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1190: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1191: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1192: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1193: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1194: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1195: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1196: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1197: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1198: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1199: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1200: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1201: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1202: of more secure open-source solutions like
1203: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1204: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1205: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1206: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1207: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1208: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1209: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1210: the Beltway."
1211: <p>
1.251 ian 1212: </ul>
1213:
1.249 jufi 1214: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1215: <ul>
1216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1217: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1218: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1219: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1220: </strong></font><br>
1221: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1222: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1223: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1224: <p>
1.334 ian 1225:
1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1227: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1228: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1229: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1230: </strong></font><br>
1231: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1232: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1233: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1234: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1235: "... the hypothetical question ...
1236: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1237: <br>
1238: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1239: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1240: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1241: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1242: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1243: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1245: support network security.
1246: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1247: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1248: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1249: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1250: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1251: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1252: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1253: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1254: <br>
1255: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1256: <p>
1257:
1.249 jufi 1258: </ul>
1259:
1.246 jufi 1260: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1261: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1262:
1.247 jufi 1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1264: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1265: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1266: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1267: </strong></font><br>
1268: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1269: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1270: <p>
1271:
1.247 jufi 1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1273: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1274: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1275: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1276: </strong></font><br>
1277: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1278: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1282: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1283: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1284: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1287: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1288: <p>
1.247 jufi 1289: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1290:
1.244 jufi 1291: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1292: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1293:
1.247 jufi 1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1295: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1296: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1297: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1298: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1299: </strong></font><br>
1300: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1301: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1302: md5 digests.
1303: <p>
1304:
1.247 jufi 1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1306: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1307: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1308: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1309: </strong></font><br>
1310: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1311: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1312: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1313: right the first time."
1314: <p>
1.247 jufi 1315: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1316:
1317:
1318: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1319: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1320:
1.247 jufi 1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1322: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1323: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1324: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1325: </strong></font><br>
1326: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1327: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1328: part 6</a>.
1329: <p>
1330:
1.247 jufi 1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1332: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1333: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1334: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1335: </strong></font><br>
1336: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1337: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1338: <p>
1.301 jose 1339:
1340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1341: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1342: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1343: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1344: </strong></font><br>
1345:
1346: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1347: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1348: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1349: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1350: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1351: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1352: <i>Here's the
1353: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1354: <p>
1.247 jufi 1355: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1356:
1357: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1358: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1359:
1.247 jufi 1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1361: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1362: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1363: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1364: </strong></font><br>
1365: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1366: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1367: <p>
1368:
1.247 jufi 1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1370: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1371: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1372: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1373: </strong></font><br>
1374: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1375: this time using pf.
1376: <p>
1.247 jufi 1377: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1378:
1379: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1380: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1381:
1.247 jufi 1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1383: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1384: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1385: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1388: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1389: their rotation.
1390: <p>
1391:
1.247 jufi 1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1393: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1394: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1395: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1396: </strong></font><br>
1397: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1398: <p>
1.247 jufi 1399: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1400:
1.239 jufi 1401: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1402: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1403:
1.247 jufi 1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1405: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1406: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1407: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1408: </strong></font><br>
1409: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1410: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1411: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1412: <p>
1413:
1.247 jufi 1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1415: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1416: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1417: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1418: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1419: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1420: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1421: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1422: <p>
1.247 jufi 1423: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1424:
1.235 lebel 1425: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1426: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1427:
1.239 jufi 1428:
1.247 jufi 1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1430: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1431: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1432: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1433: </strong></font><br>
1434: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1435: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1436: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1437: <p>
1.301 jose 1438:
1.247 jufi 1439: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1440:
1.228 horacio 1441: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1442: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1443:
1.247 jufi 1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1445: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1446: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1447: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1448: </strong></font><br>
1449: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1450: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1451: <p>
1452:
1.247 jufi 1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1454: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1455: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1456: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1457: </strong></font><br>
1458: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1459: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1460: <p>
1461:
1.247 jufi 1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1463: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1464: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1465: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1466: </strong></font><br>
1467: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1468: on the desktop of his parents.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.247 jufi 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1472: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1473: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1474: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1477: using IPFilter.
1478:
1479: <p>
1480:
1.247 jufi 1481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1482: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1483: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1484: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1485: </strong></font><br>
1486: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1487: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1488: perspectives of the four OS.
1489: <br>
1490: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1491: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1492: <p>
1493:
1.247 jufi 1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1495: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1496: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1497: software and security</a>,
1498: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1499: </strong></font><br>
1500:
1501: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1502: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1503: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1504: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1505: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1506: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1507: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1508: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1509: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1510: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1511: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1512: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1513: <p>
1.247 jufi 1514: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1515:
1.225 horacio 1516: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1517: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1518:
1.247 jufi 1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1520: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1521: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1522: Interview</a>,
1523: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1524: </strong></font><br>
1525:
1526: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1527: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1528: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1529: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1530: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1531: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1532: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1533: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1534: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1535: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1536: of choice.
1537: <p>
1.247 jufi 1538: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1539:
1540: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1541: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1542:
1.247 jufi 1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1544: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1545: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1546: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1547: </strong></font><br>
1548:
1549: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1550: <p>
1551:
1.247 jufi 1552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1553: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1554: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1555: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1556: </strong></font><br>
1557:
1558: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1559: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1560: <p>
1.247 jufi 1561: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1562:
1.218 horacio 1563: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1564: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1565:
1.247 jufi 1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1567: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1568: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1569: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1570: </strong></font><br>
1571:
1572: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1573: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1574: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1575: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1576: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1577: subjects. Worth a read.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580:
1.247 jufi 1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1582: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1583: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1584: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1585: </strong></font><br>
1586:
1587: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1588: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1589: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1590: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1591: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1592: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1593: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1594: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1595: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1596: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1597: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1598: on other operating systems.<br>
1599: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1600: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1601: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1602: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1603: <p>
1604:
1.247 jufi 1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1606: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1607: Operating System 2010</a>,
1608: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1609: </strong></font><br>
1610:
1611: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1612: covering the level of software integration into the core
1613: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1614: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1615: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1616: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1617: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1618: <p>
1619:
1.247 jufi 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1621: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1622: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1623: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1624: </strong></font><br>
1625:
1626: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1627: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1628: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1629: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1630: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1631: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1632: <p>
1.247 jufi 1633: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1634:
1.210 jufi 1635: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1636: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1637:
1.247 jufi 1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1639: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1640: Already a Contender</a>,
1641: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1642: </strong></font><br>
1643:
1644: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1645: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1646: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1647: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1648: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1649: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1650: <p>
1651:
1.247 jufi 1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1653: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1654: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1655: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1656: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1657:
1.224 horacio 1658: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1659: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1660: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1661: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1662: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1663: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1664: <p>
1.247 jufi 1665: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1666:
1667: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1668: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1669:
1.247 jufi 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1671: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1672: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1673: Division</a>,
1674: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1675: </strong></font><br>
1676:
1677: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1678: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1679: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1680: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1681: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1682: investment</em>.<br>
1683: The implementation details can be seen on their
1684: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1685: <p>
1686:
1.247 jufi 1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1689: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1690: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1691: </strong></font><br>
1692:
1693: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1694: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1695: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1696: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1697: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1698: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1699: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1700: <p>
1701:
1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1703: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1704: Thinking about Security</a>,
1705: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1706: </strong></font><br>
1707:
1708: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1709: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1710: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1711: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1712: to time.<br>
1713: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1714: system and just the most secure system.
1715: <p>
1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1718: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1719: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1720: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1724: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1725: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1726: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1727: choice:<br>
1728: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1729: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1730: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1731: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1732: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1733: network security devices and as such must be well
1734: armored."</em><br>
1735: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1736: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1737: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1738: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1739: <br>
1740: Bravo!
1741: <p>
1.247 jufi 1742: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1743:
1.207 ian 1744: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1745: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1748: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1749: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1750: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1751:
1.207 ian 1752: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1753: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1754: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1755: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1756: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1757: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1758: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1759: <p>
1.247 jufi 1760: </ul>
1.207 ian 1761:
1.194 jufi 1762: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1763: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1764:
1.247 jufi 1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1766: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1767: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1768: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1769: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1770:
1.240 miod 1771: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1772: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1773: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1774: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1775: <p>
1776:
1.247 jufi 1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1778: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1779: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1780: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1781:
1782: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1783: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1784: <p>
1785:
1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1787: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1788: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1789: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1790:
1791: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1792: <p>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1795: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1796: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1797: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1798: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1799:
1.240 miod 1800: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1801: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1802: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1803: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1804: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1805: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1806: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1807: <br>
1808: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1809: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1810: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1811: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1812: <p>
1813:
1.247 jufi 1814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1815: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1816: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1817: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1818: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1819:
1.194 jufi 1820: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1821: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1822: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1823: <br>
1824: The new
1825: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1826: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1827: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1828: <p>
1.247 jufi 1829: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1830:
1.190 horacio 1831: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1832: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1833:
1.247 jufi 1834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1835:
1836: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1837: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1838:
1.301 jose 1839:
1.191 jufi 1840: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1841: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1842:
1843: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1844: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1845:
1.212 horacio 1846: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1847: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1848: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1849:
1.211 horacio 1850: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1851: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1852: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1853:
1.247 jufi 1854: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1855: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1856:
1.247 jufi 1857: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1858: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1859:
1.212 horacio 1860: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1861: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1862: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1863:
1864: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1865: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1866:
1867: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1868: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1869:
1.301 jose 1870: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1871: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1872:
1.191 jufi 1873: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1874: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1875:
1876: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1877: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1878:
1.192 jufi 1879: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1880: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1881: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1882:
1.193 deraadt 1883: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1884: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1885: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1886:
1.247 jufi 1887: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1888: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1889:
1.247 jufi 1890: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1891: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1892: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1893:
1.213 horacio 1894: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1895: 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 1896: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1897:
1.190 horacio 1898: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1899: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1900: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1901: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1902: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1903: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1904: <p>
1.190 horacio 1905:
1.247 jufi 1906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1907: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1908: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1909: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1910: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1911:
1.195 jufi 1912: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1913: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1914: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1915: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1916: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1917: <p>
1918:
1.247 jufi 1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1920: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1921: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1922: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1923: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1924:
1.191 jufi 1925: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1926: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1927: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1928: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1929: <p>
1930:
1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1932: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1933: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1934: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1935:
1936: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1937: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1938: <p>
1.247 jufi 1939: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1940:
1.191 jufi 1941:
1.186 jufi 1942: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1943: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1944:
1.247 jufi 1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1946: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1947: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1948: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1949: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1950:
1.188 jufi 1951: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1952: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1953: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1954: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1955: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1956: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1957: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1958: <p>
1959:
1.301 jose 1960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1961: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1962: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1963: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1964:
1965: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1966: <p>
1.191 jufi 1967:
1.247 jufi 1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1969: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1970: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1971: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1972: </strong></font><br>
1973:
1974: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1975: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1976: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1977: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1978: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1979: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1980: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1981: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1982: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1983: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1984: familiar?
1985: <p>
1.247 jufi 1986: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1987:
1.178 louis 1988: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1989: <ul>
1.178 louis 1990:
1.247 jufi 1991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1992: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1993: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1994: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1995: </strong></font><br>
1996:
1997: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1998: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1999: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2000: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2001: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2002: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2003: <p>
2004:
1.247 jufi 2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2006: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2007: Open source under the hood</a>,
2008: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2009: </strong></font><br>
2010:
2011: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2012: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2013: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2014: <p>
2015:
1.247 jufi 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2017: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2018: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2019: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2020: </strong></font><br>
2021:
2022: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2023: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2024: <p>
1.247 jufi 2025: </ul>
1.179 louis 2026:
1.174 louis 2027:
1.175 louis 2028: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2029: <ul>
1.175 louis 2030:
1.247 jufi 2031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2032: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2033: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2034: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2035: </strong></font><br>
2036:
2037: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2038: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2039: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2040: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2041: <p>
2042:
1.247 jufi 2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2044: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2045: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2046: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2047: </strong></font><br>
2048:
2049: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2050: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2051: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2052: <p>
1.247 jufi 2053: </ul>
1.175 louis 2054:
1.176 louis 2055:
1.172 mickey 2056: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2057: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2058:
1.247 jufi 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2060: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2061: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2062: </strong></font><br>
2063:
2064: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2065: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2066: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2067: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2068: <p>
2069:
1.247 jufi 2070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2071: <a
1.269 deraadt 2072: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2073: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2074: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2075: </strong></font><br>
2076:
2077: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2078: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2079: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2080: <p>
2081:
1.247 jufi 2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2083: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2084: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2085: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2086: </strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2089: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2090: <p>
2091:
1.247 jufi 2092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2093: <a
1.269 deraadt 2094: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2095: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2096: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2097: </strong></font><br>
2098:
2099: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2100: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2101: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2102: our own Theo de Raadt.
2103: <p>
2104:
1.247 jufi 2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2106: <a
1.269 deraadt 2107: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2108: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2109: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2110: </strong></font><br>
2111:
2112: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2113: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2114: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2115: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2116: shut down.]
2117: <p>
2118:
1.247 jufi 2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2120: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2121: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2122: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2123: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2124: </strong></font><br>
2125:
2126: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2127: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2128: <p>
1.247 jufi 2129: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2130:
1.161 louis 2131: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2132: <ul>
1.161 louis 2133:
1.247 jufi 2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2135: <a
1.269 deraadt 2136: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2137: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2138: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2139: </strong></font><br>
2140:
2141: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2142: by John Wolley
2143: <p>
2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2146: <a
1.269 deraadt 2147: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2148: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2149: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2150: </strong></font><br>
2151:
2152: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2153: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2154: OpenBSD).
2155: <p>
2156:
1.247 jufi 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2158: <a
1.247 jufi 2159: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2160: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2161: </strong></font><br>
2162:
2163: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2164: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2165: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2166: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2167: and hindsight.
2168: <p>
2169:
1.247 jufi 2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2171: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2172: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2173: </strong></font><br>
2174:
2175: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2176: <p>
2177:
1.247 jufi 2178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2179: <a
1.168 provos 2180: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2181: December 7, 2000
2182: </strong></font><br>
2183:
2184: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2185: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2186: us explain.
2187: <p>
2188:
1.247 jufi 2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2190: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2191: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2192: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2193: December 6, 2000
2194: </strong></font><br>
2195:
2196: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2197: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2198: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2199: <p>
2200:
1.247 jufi 2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2202: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2203: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2204: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2205: </strong></font><br>
2206:
2207: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2208: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2209: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2210: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2211: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2212: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2213: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2214: <p>
2215:
2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2217: <a
1.226 horacio 2218: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2219: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
2222: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2223: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2224: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2225: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2226: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2227: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2228: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2229: <p>
1.162 millert 2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2232: <a
1.161 louis 2233: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2234: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2235: </strong></font><br>
2236:
2237: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2238: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2239: <p>
2240:
1.247 jufi 2241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2242: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2243: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2244: </strong></font><br>
2245:
2246: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2247: <p>
2248:
2249:
1.247 jufi 2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2251: <a
1.226 horacio 2252: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2253: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2254: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256:
2257: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2258: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2259: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2260: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2261: <p>
1.247 jufi 2262: </ul>
1.169 louis 2263:
1.158 louis 2264: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2265: <ul>
1.147 louis 2266:
1.247 jufi 2267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2268: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2269: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2270: </strong></font><br>
2271:
2272: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2273: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2274: <p>
2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2277: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2278: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2279: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2280: </strong></font><br>
2281: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2282: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2283: <p>
2284:
1.247 jufi 2285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2286: <a
2287: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2288: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2289: </strong></font><br>
2290:
2291: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2292: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2293: <p>
2294:
1.247 jufi 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2296: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2297: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2298: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2299:
1.213 horacio 2300: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2301: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2302: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2303: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2304: <p>
1.215 horacio 2305:
1.247 jufi 2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2307: <a
2308: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2309: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2310: </strong></font><br>
2311:
2312: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2313: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2314: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2315: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2316: much of the attitude too).
2317: <p>
1.161 louis 2318:
1.247 jufi 2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2320: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2321: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2322: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2323:
1.157 louis 2324: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2325: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2326: <p>
1.247 jufi 2327: </ul>
1.157 louis 2328:
2329: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2330: <ul>
1.157 louis 2331:
1.247 jufi 2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2333: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2334: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2335: </strong></font><br>
2336:
2337: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2338: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2339: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2340: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2341: <p>
2342:
1.247 jufi 2343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2344: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2345: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2346: </strong></font><br>
2347:
2348: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2349: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2350: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2351: it because they love coding...
2352: <p>
2353:
1.247 jufi 2354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2355: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2356: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2360: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2361: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2362: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2363: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2364: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2365: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2366: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2367: <p>
2368:
1.247 jufi 2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2370: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2371: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2372: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2373: </strong></font><br>
2374:
2375: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2376: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2377: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2378: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2379: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2380: the pizza.
2381: <p>
2382:
1.247 jufi 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2384: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2385: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2386: </strong></font><br>
2387:
2388: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2389: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2390: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2391: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2392: problems.
2393: <p>
2394:
1.247 jufi 2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2396: <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 2397: </strong></font><br>
2398:
1.222 miod 2399: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2400: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2401: - whether they like it or not.
2402: <p>
2403:
1.247 jufi 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2405: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2406: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2407: </strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2410: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2411: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2412: <p>
1.148 aaron 2413:
1.247 jufi 2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2415: <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 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2419: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2420: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2421: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2422: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2423: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2424: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2425: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2426: <p>
2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2429: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2430: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2431: </strong></font><br>
2432:
2433: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2434: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2435: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2436: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2437: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2438: <p>
1.247 jufi 2439: </ul>
1.147 louis 2440:
1.138 louis 2441: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2442: <ul>
1.138 louis 2443:
1.247 jufi 2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2445: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2446: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2447: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2448: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2449: </strong></font><br>
2450:
1.227 horacio 2451: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2452: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2453: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2454: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2455: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2456: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2457: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2458: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2459: <p>
2460:
1.247 jufi 2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2462: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2463: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2464: </strong></font><br>
2465:
2466: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2467: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2468: groups, and even Linux.
2469: <p>
2470:
1.247 jufi 2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2472: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2473: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2474: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2475: </strong></font><br>
2476:
2477: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2478: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2479: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2480: library after installing the OS.
2481: <p>
2482:
1.247 jufi 2483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2484: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2485: Sys Admin, September 2000
2486: </strong></font><br>
2487:
2488: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2489: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2490: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2491: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2492: (<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>,
2493: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2494: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2495: <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 2496: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2497: out of the system.
2498: <p>
2499:
1.247 jufi 2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2501: <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
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2505: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2506: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2507: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2508: the IP filtering and address translation.
2509: <p>
1.301 jose 2510:
2511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2512: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2513: </strong></font><br>
2514:
2515: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2516: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2517: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2518: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2519: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2520: <p>
1.247 jufi 2521: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2522:
1.131 louis 2523: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2524: <ul>
1.131 louis 2525:
1.247 jufi 2526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2527: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2528: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2529: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2530: </strong></font><br>
2531:
2532: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2533: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2534: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2535: <p>
2536:
1.247 jufi 2537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2538: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2539: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2540: </strong></font><br>
2541:
2542: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2543: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2544: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2545: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2546: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2547: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2548: note of"</i>.
2549: <p>
2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2552: <a
1.247 jufi 2553: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2554: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2555: </strong></font><br>
2556:
2557: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2558: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2559: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2560: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2561: <p>
2562:
1.247 jufi 2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2564: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2565: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2566: </strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2569: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2570: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2571: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2572: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2573: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2574: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2575: <p>
2576:
1.247 jufi 2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2578: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2579: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2580: 2000
2581: </strong></font><br>
2582:
2583: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2584: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2585: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2586: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2587: against current industry practices.
2588: <p>
2589:
1.247 jufi 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2591: <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
2592: </strong></font><br>
2593:
2594: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2595: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2596: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2597: <p>
2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2600: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2601: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2602: </strong></font><br>
2603:
2604: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2605: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2606: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2607: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2608: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2609: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2610: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2611: <p>
2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2614: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2615: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2616: </strong></font><br>
2617:
2618: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2619: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2620: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2621: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2622: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2623: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2624: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2625: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2626: <p>
1.247 jufi 2627: </ul>
1.131 louis 2628:
1.118 louis 2629: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2630: <ul>
1.118 louis 2631:
1.247 jufi 2632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2633: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2634: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2635: </strong></font><br>
2636:
2637: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2638: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2639: about time. The article mentions that
2640: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2641: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2642: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2643: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2644: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2645: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2646: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2647: <p>
2648:
1.247 jufi 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2650: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2651: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2652: </strong></font><br>
2653:
2654: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2655: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2656: of OpenSSH.
2657: <p>
2658:
1.247 jufi 2659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2660: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2661: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2662: </strong></font><br>
2663:
2664: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2665: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2666: bridging.
2667: <p>
2668:
1.247 jufi 2669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2670: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2671: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2672: </strong></font><br>
2673:
1.121 deraadt 2674: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2675: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2676: <p>
2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2679: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2680: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2681: </strong></font><br>
2682:
2683: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2684: <p>
2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2687: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2688: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2689: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2690: </strong></font><br>
2691:
1.120 deraadt 2692: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2693: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2694: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2695: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2696: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2697: <p>
2698:
1.247 jufi 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2700: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2701: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2702: </strong></font><br>
2703:
1.222 miod 2704: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2705: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2706: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2707: protocols and their quirks.
2708: <p>
2709:
1.247 jufi 2710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2711: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2712: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2713: </strong></font><br>
2714:
2715: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2716: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2717: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2718: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2719: <p>
2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2722: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2723: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2724: </strong></font><br>
2725:
2726: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2727: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2728: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2729: <p>
2730:
1.247 jufi 2731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2732: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2733: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2734: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2735: </strong></font><br>
2736:
2737: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2738: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2739: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2740: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2741: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2742: <p>
1.247 jufi 2743: </ul>
1.118 louis 2744:
1.104 louis 2745: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2746: <ul>
1.104 louis 2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2749: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2750: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2751: </strong></font><br>
2752:
2753: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2754: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2755: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2756: be a bit dry.
2757: <p>
2758:
1.247 jufi 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2760: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2761: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2762: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2763: </strong></font><br>
2764: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2765: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2766: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2767: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2768: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2769: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2770: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2771: <p>
2772:
1.247 jufi 2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2774: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2775: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2776: 2000
1.128 louis 2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
2779: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2780: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2781: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2782: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2783: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2784: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2785: <p>
2786:
1.247 jufi 2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2788: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2789: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2790: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2791:
2792: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2793: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2794: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2795: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2796: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2797: <p>
1.110 louis 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2800: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2801: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2802: </strong></font><br>
2803:
2804: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2805: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2806: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2807: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2808: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2809: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2810: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2811: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2812: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2813: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2814: <p>
2815:
1.247 jufi 2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2817: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2818: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2819:
2820: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2821: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2822: <p>
1.108 louis 2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2825: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2826: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2827: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2828:
2829: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2830: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2831: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2832: <p>
1.106 louis 2833:
1.247 jufi 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2835: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2836: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2837: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2838:
2839: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2840: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2841: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2842: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2843: <p>
1.107 louis 2844:
1.247 jufi 2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2846: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2847: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2848: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2849:
2850: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2851: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2852: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2853: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2854: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2855: <p>
1.105 louis 2856:
1.247 jufi 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2858: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2859: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2860: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2861:
1.113 naddy 2862: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2863: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2864: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2865: <p>
1.104 louis 2866:
1.247 jufi 2867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2868: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2869: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2870: </strong></font><br>
2871:
2872: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2873: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2874: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2875: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2876: <p>
1.301 jose 2877:
2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2879: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2880: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2881: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2884: hardware-supported cryptography.
2885: <p>
1.247 jufi 2886: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2887:
1.85 louis 2888: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2889: <ul>
1.85 louis 2890:
1.247 jufi 2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2892: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2893: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2894: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2895:
2896: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2897: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2898: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2899: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2900: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2901: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2902: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2903: <p>
1.99 louis 2904:
1.247 jufi 2905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2906: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2907: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2908: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2909:
2910: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2911: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2912: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2913: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2914: <p>
1.100 louis 2915:
1.247 jufi 2916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2917: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2918: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2919: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2920:
2921: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2922: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2923: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2924: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2925: <p>
1.95 louis 2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2928: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2929: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2930: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2931:
2932: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2933: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2934: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2935: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2936: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2937: <p>
1.92 louis 2938:
1.247 jufi 2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2940: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2941: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2942: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2943:
2944: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2945: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2946: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2947: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2948: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2949: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2950: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2951: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2952: <p>
1.91 louis 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2955: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2956: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2957: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2958:
2959: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2960: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2961: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2962: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2963: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2964: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2965: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2966: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2967: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2968: <p>
1.90 louis 2969:
1.247 jufi 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2971: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2972: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2973: </strong></font><br>
2974: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2975: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2976: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2977: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2978: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2979: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2980: <p>
2981:
1.247 jufi 2982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2983: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2984: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2985: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2986:
1.113 naddy 2987: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2988: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2989: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2990: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2991: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2992: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2993: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2994: <p>
1.87 louis 2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2997: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2998: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2999: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3000:
3001: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3002: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3003: <p>
1.85 louis 3004:
1.247 jufi 3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3006: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3007: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3008: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3009:
3010: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3011: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3012: <p>
3013:
3014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3015: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3016: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3017: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3018:
3019: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3020: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3021: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3022: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3023: <p>
1.89 louis 3024:
1.247 jufi 3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3026: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3027: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3028: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3029:
3030: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3031: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3032: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3033: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3034: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3035: </ul>
1.85 louis 3036:
1.78 deraadt 3037: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3038: <ul>
1.74 louis 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3041: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3042: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3043: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3044: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3045:
3046: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3047: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3048: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3049: <p>
1.83 louis 3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3052: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3053: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3054: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3055:
3056: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3057: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3058: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3059: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3060: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3061: <p>
1.93 louis 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3064: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3065: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3066: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3067: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3068:
1.83 louis 3069: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3070: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3071: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3072: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3073: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3074: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3075: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3076: <p>
1.82 aaron 3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3079: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3080: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3081: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3082:
1.83 louis 3083: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3084: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3085: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3086: <p>
1.80 louis 3087:
1.247 jufi 3088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3089: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3090: Bad Press</a>,
3091: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3092: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3093:
3094: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3095: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3096: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3097: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3098: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3099: <p>
1.247 jufi 3100: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3101:
3102: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3103: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3104:
1.247 jufi 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3106: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3107: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3108: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3110:
3111: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3112: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3113: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3114: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3115: <p>
1.74 louis 3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3118: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3119: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3120: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3121:
1.219 horacio 3122: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3123: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3124: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3125: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3126: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3127: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3128: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3129: <p>
1.88 louis 3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3132: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3133: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3134: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3135:
3136: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3137: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3138: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3139: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3140: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3141: <p>
1.81 louis 3142:
1.247 jufi 3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3144: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3145: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3146: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3147:
3148: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3149: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3150: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3151: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3152: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3153: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3154: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3155: <p>
1.90 louis 3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3158: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3159: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3160: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3161:
3162: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3163: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3164: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3165: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3166: <p>
1.247 jufi 3167: </ul>
1.71 louis 3168:
1.69 deraadt 3169: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3170: <ul>
1.70 louis 3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3173: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3174: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3175: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3176:
3177: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3178: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3179: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3180: <p>
1.70 louis 3181:
1.247 jufi 3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3183: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3184: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3185: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3186:
3187: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3188: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3189: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.68 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3193: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3194: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3195: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3196: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3197:
1.111 jufi 3198: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3199: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3200: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3201: "secure by default" installation.
3202: <p>
1.64 louis 3203:
1.247 jufi 3204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3205: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3206: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3207: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3208:
1.113 naddy 3209: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3210: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3211: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3212: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3213: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3214: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3215: <p>
1.66 louis 3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3218: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3219: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3221:
3222: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3223: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3224: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3225: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3226: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3227: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3228: <p>
1.83 louis 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3231: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3232: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3233: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3234:
3235: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3236: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3237: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3238: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3239: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3240: <p>
1.64 louis 3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3243: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3244: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3245: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3246:
3247: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3248: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3249: <p>
1.301 jose 3250:
3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3252: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3253: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3254: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3255: </strong></font><br>
3256:
3257: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3258: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3259: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3260: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3261: Giving way to
3262: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3263: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3264: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3265: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3266: <p>
1.247 jufi 3267: </ul>
1.65 louis 3268:
1.69 deraadt 3269: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3270: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3273: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3274: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3275: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3276:
3277: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3278: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3279: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3280: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3281: <p>
1.88 louis 3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3284: <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 3285: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3286:
3287: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3288: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3289: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3290: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3291: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3292: <p>
1.60 louis 3293:
1.247 jufi 3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3295: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3296: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3297: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3298: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3299:
3300: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3301: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3302: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3303: <p>
1.58 louis 3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3306: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3307: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3308:
3309: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3310: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3311: <p>
1.53 louis 3312:
1.247 jufi 3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3314: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3315: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3316: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3317:
3318: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3319: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3320: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3321: <p>
1.99 louis 3322:
1.247 jufi 3323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3324: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3325: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3326:
3327: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3328: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3329: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3330: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3331: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3332:
1.247 jufi 3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3334: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3335: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3336: </strong></font><br>
3337:
3338: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3339: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3340: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3341: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3342: <p>
3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3345: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3346: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3347: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3348:
3349: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3350: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3351: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3354: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3355: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3356:
3357: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3358: in
1.247 jufi 3359: <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 3360: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3361: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3362: <p>
1.53 louis 3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3365: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3366: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3367: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3368: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3369:
1.58 louis 3370: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3371: <p>
1.301 jose 3372:
3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3374: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3375: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3376: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3377: Informacyjny, January 2000
3378: </strong></font><br>
3379:
3380: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3381: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3382: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3383: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3384: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3385: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3386: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3387: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3388: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3389: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3390: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3391: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3392: <p>
3393:
3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3395: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3396: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3397: </strong></font><br>
3398:
3399: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3400: <p>
3401: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3402:
1.69 deraadt 3403: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3404: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3407: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3408: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3409: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3410: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3411:
1.58 louis 3412: Kurt Seifried
3413: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3414: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3415: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3416: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3417:
1.247 jufi 3418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3419: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3420: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3421: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3422:
3423: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3424: <p>
1.96 louis 3425:
1.247 jufi 3426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3427: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3428: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3429: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3430: </strong></font><br>
3431:
3432: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3433: <p>
3434:
3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3436: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3437: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3438: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3439:
3440: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3441: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3442: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3443: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3444: <p>
1.247 jufi 3445: </ul>
1.86 louis 3446:
1.69 deraadt 3447: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3448: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3451: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3452: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3453: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3454:
3455: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3456: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3457: <p>
1.61 louis 3458:
1.247 jufi 3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3460: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3461: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3462: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3463: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3464:
3465: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3466: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3467: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3468: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3469: right -- or at least strives to".
3470: <p>
1.48 louis 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3473: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3474: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3475: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3476: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3477: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3478: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3479: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3480: <p>
1.61 louis 3481:
1.247 jufi 3482: <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 3483: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3484: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3485:
3486: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3487: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3488: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3489: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3490: <p>
1.46 louis 3491:
1.247 jufi 3492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3493: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3494: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3495: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3496:
3497: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3498: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3499: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3502: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3503: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3504: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3505:
3506: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3507: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3508: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3509: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3510: <p>
1.247 jufi 3511: </ul>
1.70 louis 3512:
1.69 deraadt 3513: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3514: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3517: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3518: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3519: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3520: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3521:
3522: Kurt Seifried
3523: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3524: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3525: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3526: <p>
1.44 philen 3527:
1.247 jufi 3528: <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 3529: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3530: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3531:
3532: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3533: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <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 3536: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3537: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3538:
3539: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3540: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3541:
1.247 jufi 3542: <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 3543: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3544: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3545:
3546: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3547: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3548: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3549: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3550: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3551:
1.247 jufi 3552: <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 3553: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3554: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3555:
1.36 louis 3556: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3557: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3558:
1.247 jufi 3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3560: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3561: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3562: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3563:
3564: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3565: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3566: </ul>
1.38 louis 3567:
1.69 deraadt 3568: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3569: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <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 3572: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3573: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3574:
3575: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3576: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3577: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3578:
1.113 naddy 3579: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3580: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3581: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3582: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3583:
3584: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3585: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3586: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3587: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3588: <blockquote>
3589: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3590: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3591: <br>
3592: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3593: </code>
3594: </blockquote>
3595: <p>
3596:
1.247 jufi 3597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3598: <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 3599: <p>
3600:
3601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3602: <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 3603: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3604:
3605: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3606: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3607: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3608: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3611: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3612: Sept. 28, 1999
3613: </strong></font><br>
3614:
3615: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3616: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3617: translating and reprinting articles from
3618: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3619: <p>
3620:
3621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3622: <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 3623: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3624:
3625: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3626: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3627: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3628: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3629: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3630: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3631: <p>
1.19 louis 3632:
1.113 naddy 3633: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3634: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3635: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3636:
3637: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3638: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3639: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3640: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3641: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3642: <p>
1.16 louis 3643:
1.247 jufi 3644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3645: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3646: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3647: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3648:
1.57 louis 3649: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3650: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3651: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3652: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3653:
1.247 jufi 3654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3655: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3656: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3657: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3658:
1.113 naddy 3659: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3662: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3663: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3664: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3665:
1.23 louis 3666: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3667: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3668: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3669: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3670: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3671: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3672:
1.247 jufi 3673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3674: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3675: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3676: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3677:
1.199 pvalchev 3678: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3679: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3680: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3681: installation.
1.113 naddy 3682: <p>
1.47 louis 3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3685: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3686: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3687: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3688:
1.301 jose 3689: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3690: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3691: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3692: </ul>
1.57 louis 3693:
1.69 deraadt 3694: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3695: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3698: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3699: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3700: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3701:
3702: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3703: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3704: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3705: <p>
1.12 louis 3706:
1.247 jufi 3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3708: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3709: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3710: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3711:
3712: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3713: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3714: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3715: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3716: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3717: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3718: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3719: <p>
1.247 jufi 3720: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3721:
1.69 deraadt 3722: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3723: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3724:
1.247 jufi 3725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3726: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3727: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3728:
3729: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3730: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3731: available."
1.113 naddy 3732: <p>
1.301 jose 3733:
3734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3735: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3736: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3737: </strong></font><br>
3738:
3739: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3740: <p>
1.247 jufi 3741: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3742:
1.69 deraadt 3743: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3744: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3747: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3748: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3749:
3750: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3751: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3752: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3753: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3754: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3755: <p>
1.33 louis 3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3758: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3759: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3760: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3761:
1.113 naddy 3762: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3763: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3764: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3765: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3766: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3767: <p>
1.247 jufi 3768: </ul>
1.57 louis 3769:
1.69 deraadt 3770: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3771: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3774: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3775: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3776: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3777:
3778: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3779: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3780: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3781:
1.247 jufi 3782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3783: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3784: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3785: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3786: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3787:
3788: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3789: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3790:
1.247 jufi 3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3792: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3793:
1.113 naddy 3794: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3797: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3798: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3799: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3800:
3801: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3802: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3803: </ul>
1.23 louis 3804:
1.69 deraadt 3805: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3806: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3807:
1.247 jufi 3808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3809: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3810: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3811:
3812: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3813: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3814: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3815:
1.247 jufi 3816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3817: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3818: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3819: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3820:
3821: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3822: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3823: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3824: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3825: </ul>
1.57 louis 3826:
1.69 deraadt 3827: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3828: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3829:
1.247 jufi 3830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3831: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3832: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3833: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3834:
3835: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3836: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3837: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3838: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3839: <p>
1.15 louis 3840:
1.247 jufi 3841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3842: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3843: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3844: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3845:
3846: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3847: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3848: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3849: columns."
1.113 naddy 3850: <p>
1.247 jufi 3851: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3852:
1.69 deraadt 3853: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3854: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3855:
1.247 jufi 3856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3857: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3858: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3859: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3860:
3861: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3862: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3863:
1.113 naddy 3864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3865: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3866: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3867:
3868: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3869: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3870: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3871: </ul>
1.57 louis 3872:
1.69 deraadt 3873: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3874: <ul>
1.301 jose 3875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3876: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3877: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3878: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3879:
3880: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3881: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3882: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3883: <p>
3884:
3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3886: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3887: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3888: Nov 13, 1998 and
3889: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3890: Datateknik</a>,
3891: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3892:
1.380 saad 3893: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 3894: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3895: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3896: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3897: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3898:
1.113 naddy 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3900: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3901: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3902: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3903:
1.222 miod 3904: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3905: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3906: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3907: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3908: <p>
1.247 jufi 3909: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3910:
1.69 deraadt 3911: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3912: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3913:
1.247 jufi 3914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3915: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3916: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3917:
1.69 deraadt 3918: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3919: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3920: <p>
1.247 jufi 3921: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3922:
1.69 deraadt 3923: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3924: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3925:
1.247 jufi 3926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3927: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3928: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3929: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3930:
1.383 jcs 3931: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 3932: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3933: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3934:
1.247 jufi 3935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3936: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3937: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3938: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3939: <p>
1.247 jufi 3940: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3941:
1.69 deraadt 3942: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3943: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3944:
1.247 jufi 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3946: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 3947: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
3948: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3949: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3950: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3951:
3952: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3953: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3954: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3955: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3956: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3957: <p>
1.247 jufi 3958: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3959:
3960: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3961: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3962:
1.247 jufi 3963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3964: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3965: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3966:
1.69 deraadt 3967: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3968: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3969: <p>
1.112 naddy 3970:
1.247 jufi 3971: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3972: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3973:
1.292 camield 3974: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3975: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3976: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.384 ! jose 3977: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.383 2004/03/25 02:41:50 jcs Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3978:
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