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1.388 mcbride 19: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
24: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
25: kerneltrap.org, April 7, 2004
26: </strong></font><br>
27:
28: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
29: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
30: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
31: unencumbered by patents.
32: <p>
33: </ul>
34:
1.378 henning 35: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
36: <ul>
1.384 jose 37:
38: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 39: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
40: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
41: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
42: </strong></font><br>
43: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
44: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
45: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
46: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
47: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
48: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
49: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
50: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
51: in the page tables."
52: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
53: <p>
54:
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 56: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
57: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
58: </strong></font><br>
59: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
60: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
61: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
62: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
63:
1.378 henning 64: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.381 ian 65: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">Interview
66: with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
67: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
68: </strong></font><br>
69: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
70: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
71: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
72: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
73: (quote:
74: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
75: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 76: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 77: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
78: the other developers for their work on the system.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 82: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
83: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
84: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 85: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 86: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
87: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
88: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
89: too.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 93: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
94: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 95: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 96: OpenBSD source code using
97: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
98: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
99: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
100: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
101: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
102: <p>
103: </ul>
104:
1.374 jose 105: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
106: <ul>
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 ! xsa 108: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 109: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
110: </strong></font><br>
111: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
112: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
113: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
114: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
115: it."
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 119: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
120: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
121: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
122: </strong></font><br/>
123: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
124: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
125: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
126: <p>
127: </ul>
128:
1.369 ian 129: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
130: <ul>
131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 132: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
133: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
134: </strong></font><br/>
135: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
136: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
137: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
138: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 142: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
143: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
144: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
145: </strong></font><br/>
146: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
147: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
148: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
149: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
150: form factor.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
154: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
155: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
156: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
157: Features</a>,
158: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
159: </strong></font><br/>
160: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
161: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
162: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
163: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
164: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
165: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
166: <p>
167: This article can also be found online at:
168: <ul>
169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 ! xsa 170: <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>,
1.371 jose 171: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
172: </strong></font>
173: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
174: </ul>
175: <p>
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.372 jose 177: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">Adding
1.371 jose 178: System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
179: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
180: </strong></font><br/>
181: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
182: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
183: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
184:
185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 186: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 187: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 188: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 189: </strong></font><br/>
190: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
191: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
192: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
193: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
194: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
195: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
196: and its history with OpenBSD.
197: </ul>
198:
1.368 henning 199: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
200: <ul>
201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 202: [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 203: </strong></font><br>
204: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
205: </ul>
206:
1.364 jose 207: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
208: <ul>
209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 210: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
211: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
212: UNIX Review,
213: July, 2003.
214: </strong></font><br>
215: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
216: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
217: who want more information.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 221: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
222: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
223: Government Computer News,
224: July 22, 2003.
225: </strong></font><br>
226: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
227: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
228: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
229: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
233: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
234: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
235: SANS Institute,
236: July 22, 2003.
237: </strong></font><br>
238: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 239: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 240: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
241: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
242: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
243: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
244: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
245: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
246: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
247: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
248: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
249: <p>
250:
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 252: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
253: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
254: OnLamp.com,
255: July 17, 2003.
256: </strong></font><br>
257: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
258: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
259: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
260: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
261: have been working on.
262:
263: </ul>
264:
1.356 jose 265: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 266: <ul>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 269: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
270: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
271: UNIX Review,
272: June, 2003.
273: </strong></font><br>
274: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
275: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
276: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
277: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 281: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
282: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
283: eWeek,
284: June 23, 2003.
285: </strong></font><br>
286: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
287: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
288: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
289: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
290: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
291: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 295: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
296: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
297: Software Development Online,
298: June, 2003.
299: </strong></font><br>
300: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
301: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
302: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
303: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
304: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
305: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
306: current activities.
307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 310: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
311: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 312: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
313: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
314: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
315: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
316: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
317: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
318: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
319: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 320: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 321: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
322: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
323: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
324: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
325: decisions.
326: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
327: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
328: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
329: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 330: <p>
331:
332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 333: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
334: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
335: Page 58, eWeek,
336: June 2, 2003.
337: </strong></font><br>
338: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
339: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
340: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
341: been addressed in -current.
342: <p>
343:
1.356 jose 344: </ul>
345:
346: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
347: <ul>
348:
1.355 jose 349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 350: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
351: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
352: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
353: </strong></font><br>
354: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
355: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
356: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
357: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
358: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
359: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
360: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
361: <p>
362:
363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 364: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
365: Beyond Linux</a>,
366: InfoWorld,
367: May 23, 2003.
368: </strong></font><br>
369: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
370: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
371: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
372: compared to the GPL.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 376: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
377: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
378: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 379: May 17, 2003.
380: </strong></font><br>
381: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
382: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
383: the business section and half of another page inside
384: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
385: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
386: in talking about the project's history and goals.
387: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
388: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
389: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
390: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 391: <br>
392: This article can also be found online at:
393: <ul>
394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
395: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
396: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
397: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
398: May 17, 2003
399: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 400: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
402: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
403: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
404: Montreal Gazette,
405: May 21, 2003
406: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 407: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 408: <p>
1.346 ian 409:
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 411: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 412: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 413: May 7, 2003.
414: </strong></font><br>
415: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
416: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
417: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 421: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
422: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
423: OsOpinion,
424: May 6, 2003.
425: </strong></font><br>
426: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
427: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
428: <br>
429: This article can also be found online at:
430: <ul>
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
432: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
433: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
434: NewsFactor Network.
435: </strong></font>
436: </ul>
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 440: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 441: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
442: ITBusiness,
443: May 2, 2003.
444: </strong></font><br>
445: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
446: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
447: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
448: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 452: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
453: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
454: InfoWorld,
455: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 456: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 457: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
458: <br>
459: This article can also be found online at:
460: <ul>
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
463: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
464: IDG Singapore.
465: </strong></font>
466: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 467: <p>
468:
1.339 jose 469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
470: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
471: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 472: ZDNet,
473: May 1, 2003.
474: </strong></font><br>
475: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 476: someone using parts from previous articles.
477: <br>
1.341 deraadt 478: This article can also be found online at:
479: <ul>
480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
481: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
482: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
483: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 484: </strong></font>
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
486: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
487: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
488: CNET News.com.
489: </strong></font>
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
491: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
492: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
493: ZDNet UK.
494: </strong></font>
495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
496: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
497: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
498: Help Net Security, Croatia.
499: </strong></font>
500: </ul>
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1.339 jose 502:
1.341 deraadt 503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 504: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 505: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
506: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
507: May 1, 2003.
508: </strong></font><br>
509: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
510: that have been added
511: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
512: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
513: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 514: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 515: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
516: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
517: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 518: <p>
519:
520: </ul>
521:
1.253 ian 522: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
523: <ul>
1.255 ian 524:
1.260 ian 525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 526: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 527: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
528: TechRepublic,
529: April 28, 2003.
530: </strong></font><br>
531: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
532: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 533: work.<br>
534: Can also be found online at:
535: <ul>
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
537: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
538: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
539: ZDNet UK.
540: </strong></font>
541: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 542: <p>
543:
544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 545: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
546: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
547: IDG,
548: April 24, 2003.
549: </strong></font><br>
550: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
551: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
552: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
553: Can also be found online at:
554: <ul>
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
557: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 558: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 559: </strong></font>
560: </ul>
561: <p>
562:
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
564: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 565: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 566: Slate,
567: April 24, 2003.
568: </strong></font><br>
569: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
570: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
571: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
572: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 576: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
577: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
578: April 24, 2003.
579: </strong></font><br>
580: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
581: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
582: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
583: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 587: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
588: April 24, 2003.
589: </strong></font><br>
590: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
591: the free software community".
592: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
593: other articles.
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 597: <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 598: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
599: </strong></font><br>
600: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
601: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
602: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
603: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
604: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
605: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
606: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
607: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
608: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
609: <br/>
610: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
611: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
612: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
613: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 614: <br>
615: Can also be found online at:
616: <ul>
617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
618: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
619: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
620: Common Dreams NewsCenter
621: </strong></font>
622: </ul>
1.324 ian 623: <p>
624:
625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
626: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
627: Wired, April 24, 2003.
628: </strong></font><br>
629: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
630: article above.
631: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
632: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
633: wasting them."
1.332 ian 634: <br>
635: Can also be found online at:
636: <ul>
637: <li>
638: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
639: </strong></font>
640: </ul>
1.324 ian 641: <p>
642:
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 644: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
645: </strong></font><br>
646: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 650: <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.
651: </strong></font><br>
652: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
653: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
654: <p>
655:
656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 657: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
658: April 23, 2003.
659: </strong></font><br>
660: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
661: <p>
662:
663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 664: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 665: April 22, 2003.
666: </strong></font><br>
667: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 671: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
672: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
673: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 674: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 675: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
676: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
677: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
678: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
679: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
680: Can also be found online at:
681: <ul>
682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
683: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 684: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
685: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 686: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
688: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 689: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
690: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 691: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 692: </ul>
693: <p>
694:
695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 696: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
697: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 698: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 699: </strong></font><br>
700: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 701: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
702: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
703: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
704: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
705: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
706: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 710: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
711: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 712: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
713: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 714: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
715: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
716: at UPenn and DARPA.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 720: [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,
721: France
1.315 deraadt 722: April 18, 2003.
723: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 724: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 725: <p>
726:
727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 728: [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 729: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 730: </strong></font><br>
731: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
732: <p>
733:
734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 735: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
736: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
737: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 738: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 739: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
740: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
741: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
742: <p>
743:
744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 745: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
746: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 747: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 748: </strong></font><br>
749: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
750: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
751: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 752: American century.
1.267 deraadt 753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 756: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
757: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 758: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 759: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 760: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
761: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
762: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
763: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
764: Can also be found online at:
765: <ul>
766: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
767: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 768: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 769: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 770: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 771: <p>
772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 774: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 775: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 776: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 777: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 778: </strong></font><br>
779: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 780: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
781: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
782: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
783: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
786: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
787: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
788: New York Times.
789: </strong></font>(free registration required)
790:
1.273 deraadt 791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
792: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 793: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 794: ABC News.
795: </strong></font>
796:
797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 798: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 799: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 800: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 801: </strong></font>
802:
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 804: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 805: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 806: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 807: </strong></font>
808:
809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 810: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
811: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 812: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 813: </strong></font>
814:
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 816: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 817: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 818: Times Daily, AL.
819: </strong></font>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
822: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
823: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
824: Boston.com, MA.
825: </strong></font>
826:
827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 828: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 829: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 830: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
831: </strong></font>
832:
833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 834: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
835: [Article was pulled]</a>
836: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 837: </strong></font>
838:
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
840: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
841: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
842: Infoshop News.
843: </strong></font>
844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
846: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
847: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
848: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
849: </strong></font>
850:
851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 852: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
853: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
854: Raleigh News, NC.
855: </strong></font>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 858: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 859: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
860: Napa News, CA.
861: </strong></font>
862:
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 864: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 865: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
866: NEPA News, PA.
867: </strong></font>
868:
869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
870: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
871: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
872: Wired News.
873: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 874: <br>
875: <li>
1.333 deraadt 876: <font color="#009000"><strong>
877: [JAPANESE]
878: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
879: Wired News Japan</a>
880: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 881:
1.271 deraadt 882: </ul>
883: <p>
1.272 deraadt 884: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
885: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 886: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
887: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
888: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
889: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
890: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
891: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 892: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 893: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
894: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
895: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 896: <p>
897: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 898:
899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 900: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 901: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
902: Indianapolis Star, IN.
903: </strong></font>
904:
905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 906: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
907: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
908: Miami Herald, FL.
909: </strong></font>
910:
911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 912: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 913: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
914: </strong></font>
915:
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
917: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 918: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 919: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 920: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
923: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
924: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
925: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
926: ABC News.
927: </strong></font>
928:
1.276 deraadt 929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
930: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 931: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 932: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 933: </strong></font>
934:
1.286 dhartmei 935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 936: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 937: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
938: Wilmington Star, NC.
939: </strong></font>
940:
1.300 jose 941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
942: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
943: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
944: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
945: </strong></font>
946:
1.309 jose 947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
948: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
949: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
950: Globe Technology.
951: </strong></font>
952:
1.263 deraadt 953: </ul>
1.262 beck 954: <p>
955:
956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 957: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
958: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 959: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 960: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 961: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 962: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
963: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 967: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
968: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
969: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 970: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 971: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
972: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
973: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
974: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
975: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
976: and simply restates other press reports.
977: <p>
978:
979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 980: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
981: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
982: OS News, April 18, 2003.
983: </strong></font><br>
984: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
985: <p>
986:
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 988: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
989: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 990: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 991: </strong></font><br>
992: Another report on the DARPA funding.
993: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
994: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 998: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
999: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1000: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1001: April 17, 2003.
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1004: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1005: Tech Anthems</a>
1006: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1007: 4 so far.
1008: <p>
1009:
1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1011: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1012: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1013: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1014: </strong></font><br>
1015: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1016: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1017: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1018: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1019: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1020: Goes on to say:
1021: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1022: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1023: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1024: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1025: This article is also found online at:
1026: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1028: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1029: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1030: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1031: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1033: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1034: ZDnet</a>,
1035: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1036: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1038: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1039: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1040: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1041: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1042: </ul>
1.260 ian 1043: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1044:
1.260 ian 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1046: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1047: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1048: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1049: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1050: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1051: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1052: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1053: without notice or justification.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1057: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1058: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1059: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1062: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1063: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1064: effective today, without any warning..."
1065: <p>
1.257 ian 1066:
1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1068: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1069: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1070: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1071: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1072: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1073: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1074: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1075: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1076: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1080: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1081: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1082: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1083: </strong></font><br>
1084: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1085: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1086: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1087: quoting two of them:
1088: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1089: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1090: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1091: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1092: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1093: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1094: <p>
1095:
1.255 ian 1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1097: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1098: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1099: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1100: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1101: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1105: [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 1106: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1107: </strong></font><br>
1108: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1109: <p>
1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1112: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1113: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1114: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1115: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1116: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1117: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1118: security experts for more than three decades."
1119: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1120: <p>
1.261 ian 1121:
1.254 drahn 1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1123: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1124: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1125: </strong></font><br>
1126: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1127: <p>
1128:
1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1130: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1131: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1132: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1133: </strong></font><br>
1134: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1135: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1136: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1140: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1141: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1142: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1143: </strong></font><br>
1144: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1145: from US DARPA.
1146: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1147: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1148: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1149: the BSD license.
1150: <p>
1151: </ul>
1152:
1.251 ian 1153: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1154: <ul>
1155:
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1157: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1158: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1159: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1160: </strong></font><br>
1161:
1162: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1163: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1164: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1165: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1166: <p>
1167:
1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1169: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1170: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1171: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1172: </strong></font><br>
1173: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1174: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1175: Mentions
1176: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1177: and
1178: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1179: programs.
1180: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1181: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1182: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1183: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1184: <p>
1.325 ian 1185: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1186: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1187:
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1189: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1190: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1191: </strong></font><br>
1192: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1193: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1194: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1195: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1196: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1197: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1198: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1199: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1200: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1201: put into service."
1202: <p>
1203: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1204: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1205: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1206: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1207: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1208: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1209: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1210: computers with security features."
1211: <p>
1.329 ian 1212:
1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1214: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1215: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1216: Slate,
1217: March 3, 2003.
1218: </strong></font><br>
1219: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1220: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1221: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1222: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1223: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1224: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1225: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1226: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1227: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1228: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1229: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1230: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1231: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1232: of more secure open-source solutions like
1233: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1234: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1235: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1236: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1237: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1238: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1239: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1240: the Beltway."
1241: <p>
1.251 ian 1242: </ul>
1243:
1.249 jufi 1244: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1245: <ul>
1246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1247: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1248: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1249: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1250: </strong></font><br>
1251: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1252: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1253: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1254: <p>
1.334 ian 1255:
1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1257: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1258: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1259: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1260: </strong></font><br>
1261: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1262: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1263: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1264: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1265: "... the hypothetical question ...
1266: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1267: <br>
1268: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1269: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1270: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1271: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1272: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1273: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1274: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1275: support network security.
1276: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1277: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1278: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1279: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1280: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1281: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1282: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1283: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1284: <br>
1285: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1286: <p>
1287:
1.249 jufi 1288: </ul>
1289:
1.246 jufi 1290: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1291: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1292:
1.247 jufi 1293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1294: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1295: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1296: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1297: </strong></font><br>
1298: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1299: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1300: <p>
1301:
1.247 jufi 1302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1303: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1304: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1305: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1306: </strong></font><br>
1307: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1308: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1309: <p>
1310:
1311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1312: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1313: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1314: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1315: </strong></font><br>
1316: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1317: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1318: <p>
1.247 jufi 1319: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1320:
1.244 jufi 1321: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1322: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1323:
1.247 jufi 1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1325: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1326: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1327: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1328: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1329: </strong></font><br>
1330: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1331: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1332: md5 digests.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.247 jufi 1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1336: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1337: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1338: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1339: </strong></font><br>
1340: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1341: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1342: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1343: right the first time."
1344: <p>
1.247 jufi 1345: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1346:
1347:
1348: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1349: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1350:
1.247 jufi 1351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1352: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1353: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1354: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1355: </strong></font><br>
1356: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1357: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1358: part 6</a>.
1359: <p>
1360:
1.247 jufi 1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1362: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1363: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1364: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1365: </strong></font><br>
1366: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1367: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1368: <p>
1.301 jose 1369:
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1371: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1372: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1373: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1374: </strong></font><br>
1375:
1376: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1377: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1378: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1379: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1380: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1381: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1382: <i>Here's the
1383: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1384: <p>
1.247 jufi 1385: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1386:
1387: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1388: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1389:
1.247 jufi 1390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1391: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1392: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1393: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1394: </strong></font><br>
1395: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1396: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1397: <p>
1398:
1.247 jufi 1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1400: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1401: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1402: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1403: </strong></font><br>
1404: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1405: this time using pf.
1406: <p>
1.247 jufi 1407: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1408:
1409: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1410: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1411:
1.247 jufi 1412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1413: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1414: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1415: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1416: </strong></font><br>
1417: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1418: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1419: their rotation.
1420: <p>
1421:
1.247 jufi 1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1423: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1424: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1425: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1426: </strong></font><br>
1427: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1428: <p>
1.247 jufi 1429: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1430:
1.239 jufi 1431: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1432: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1433:
1.247 jufi 1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1435: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1436: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1437: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1438: </strong></font><br>
1439: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1440: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1441: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1442: <p>
1443:
1.247 jufi 1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1445: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1446: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1447: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1448: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1449: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1450: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1451: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1452: <p>
1.247 jufi 1453: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1454:
1.235 lebel 1455: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1456: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1457:
1.239 jufi 1458:
1.247 jufi 1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1460: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1461: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1462: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1463: </strong></font><br>
1464: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1465: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1466: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1467: <p>
1.301 jose 1468:
1.247 jufi 1469: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1470:
1.228 horacio 1471: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1472: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1473:
1.247 jufi 1474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1475: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1476: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1477: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1478: </strong></font><br>
1479: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1480: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1481: <p>
1482:
1.247 jufi 1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1484: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1485: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1486: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1487: </strong></font><br>
1488: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1489: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1490: <p>
1491:
1.247 jufi 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1493: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1494: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1495: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1496: </strong></font><br>
1497: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1498: on the desktop of his parents.
1499: <p>
1500:
1.247 jufi 1501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1502: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1503: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1504: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1505: </strong></font><br>
1506: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1507: using IPFilter.
1508:
1509: <p>
1510:
1.247 jufi 1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1512: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1513: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1514: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1515: </strong></font><br>
1516: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1517: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1518: perspectives of the four OS.
1519: <br>
1520: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1521: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1522: <p>
1523:
1.247 jufi 1524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1525: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1526: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1527: software and security</a>,
1528: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1529: </strong></font><br>
1530:
1531: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1532: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1533: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1534: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1535: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1536: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1537: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1538: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1539: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1540: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1541: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1542: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1543: <p>
1.247 jufi 1544: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1545:
1.225 horacio 1546: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1547: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1548:
1.247 jufi 1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1550: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1551: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1552: Interview</a>,
1553: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1554: </strong></font><br>
1555:
1556: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1557: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1558: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1559: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1560: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1561: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1562: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1563: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1564: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1565: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1566: of choice.
1567: <p>
1.247 jufi 1568: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1569:
1570: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1571: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1572:
1.247 jufi 1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1574: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1575: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1576: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1577: </strong></font><br>
1578:
1579: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1580: <p>
1581:
1.247 jufi 1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1583: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1584: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1585: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1586: </strong></font><br>
1587:
1588: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1589: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1590: <p>
1.247 jufi 1591: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1592:
1.218 horacio 1593: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1594: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1595:
1.247 jufi 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1597: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1598: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1599: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1600: </strong></font><br>
1601:
1602: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1603: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1604: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1605: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1606: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1607: subjects. Worth a read.
1608: <p>
1609:
1610:
1.247 jufi 1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1612: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1613: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1614: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1615: </strong></font><br>
1616:
1617: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1618: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1619: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1620: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1621: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1622: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1623: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1624: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1625: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1626: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1627: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1628: on other operating systems.<br>
1629: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1630: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1631: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1632: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1633: <p>
1634:
1.247 jufi 1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1636: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1637: Operating System 2010</a>,
1638: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1639: </strong></font><br>
1640:
1641: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1642: covering the level of software integration into the core
1643: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1644: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1645: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1646: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1647: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1648: <p>
1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1651: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1652: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1653: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1654: </strong></font><br>
1655:
1656: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1657: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1658: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1659: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1660: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1661: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1662: <p>
1.247 jufi 1663: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1664:
1.210 jufi 1665: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1666: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1667:
1.247 jufi 1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1669: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1670: Already a Contender</a>,
1671: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1672: </strong></font><br>
1673:
1674: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1675: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1676: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1677: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1678: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1679: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1680: <p>
1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1683: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1684: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1685: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1686: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1687:
1.224 horacio 1688: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1689: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1690: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1691: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1692: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1693: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1694: <p>
1.247 jufi 1695: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1696:
1697: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1698: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1699:
1.247 jufi 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1701: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1702: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1703: Division</a>,
1704: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1705: </strong></font><br>
1706:
1707: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1708: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1709: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1710: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1711: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1712: investment</em>.<br>
1713: The implementation details can be seen on their
1714: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1715: <p>
1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1718: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1719: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1720: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1724: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1725: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1726: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1727: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1728: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1729: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1730: <p>
1731:
1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1733: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1734: Thinking about Security</a>,
1735: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1736: </strong></font><br>
1737:
1738: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1739: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1740: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1741: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1742: to time.<br>
1743: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1744: system and just the most secure system.
1745: <p>
1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1748: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1749: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1750: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1751: </strong></font><br>
1752:
1753: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1754: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1755: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1756: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1757: choice:<br>
1758: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1759: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1760: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1761: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1762: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1763: network security devices and as such must be well
1764: armored."</em><br>
1765: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1766: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1767: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1768: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1769: <br>
1770: Bravo!
1771: <p>
1.247 jufi 1772: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1773:
1.207 ian 1774: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1775: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1776:
1.247 jufi 1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1778: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1779: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1780: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1781:
1.207 ian 1782: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1783: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1784: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1785: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1786: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1787: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1788: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1789: <p>
1.247 jufi 1790: </ul>
1.207 ian 1791:
1.194 jufi 1792: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1793: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1794:
1.247 jufi 1795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1796: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1797: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1798: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1799: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1800:
1.240 miod 1801: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1802: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1803: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1804: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1805: <p>
1806:
1.247 jufi 1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1808: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1809: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1810: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1811:
1812: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1813: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1814: <p>
1815:
1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1817: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1818: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1819: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1820:
1821: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1822: <p>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1825: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1826: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1827: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1828: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1829:
1.240 miod 1830: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1831: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1832: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1833: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1834: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1835: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1836: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1837: <br>
1838: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1839: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1840: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1841: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1842: <p>
1843:
1.247 jufi 1844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1845: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1846: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1847: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1849:
1.194 jufi 1850: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1851: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1852: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1853: <br>
1854: The new
1855: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1856: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1857: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1858: <p>
1.247 jufi 1859: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1860:
1.190 horacio 1861: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1862: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1863:
1.247 jufi 1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1865:
1866: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1867: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1868:
1.301 jose 1869:
1.191 jufi 1870: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1871: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1872:
1873: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1874: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1875:
1.212 horacio 1876: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1877: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1878: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1879:
1.211 horacio 1880: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1881: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1882: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1883:
1.247 jufi 1884: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1885: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1886:
1.247 jufi 1887: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1888: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1889:
1.212 horacio 1890: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1891: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1892: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1893:
1894: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1895: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1896:
1897: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1898: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1899:
1.301 jose 1900: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1901: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1902:
1.191 jufi 1903: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1904: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1905:
1906: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1907: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1908:
1.192 jufi 1909: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1910: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1911: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1912:
1.193 deraadt 1913: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1914: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1915: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1918: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1919:
1.247 jufi 1920: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1921: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1922: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1923:
1.213 horacio 1924: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1925: 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 1926: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1927:
1.190 horacio 1928: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1929: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1930: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1931: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1932: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1933: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1934: <p>
1.190 horacio 1935:
1.247 jufi 1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1937: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1938: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1939: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1940: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1941:
1.195 jufi 1942: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1943: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1944: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1945: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1946: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1947: <p>
1948:
1.247 jufi 1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1950: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1951: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1952: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1953: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1954:
1.191 jufi 1955: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1956: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1957: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1958: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1959: <p>
1960:
1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1962: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1963: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1964: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1965:
1966: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1967: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1968: <p>
1.247 jufi 1969: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1970:
1.191 jufi 1971:
1.186 jufi 1972: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1973: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1974:
1.247 jufi 1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1976: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1977: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1978: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1979: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1980:
1.188 jufi 1981: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1982: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1983: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1984: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1985: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1986: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1987: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1988: <p>
1989:
1.301 jose 1990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1991: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1992: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1993: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1994:
1995: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1996: <p>
1.191 jufi 1997:
1.247 jufi 1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1999: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2000: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2001: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2002: </strong></font><br>
2003:
2004: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2005: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2006: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2007: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2008: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2009: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2010: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2011: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2012: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2013: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2014: familiar?
2015: <p>
1.247 jufi 2016: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2017:
1.178 louis 2018: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2019: <ul>
1.178 louis 2020:
1.247 jufi 2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2022: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2023: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2024: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2025: </strong></font><br>
2026:
2027: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2028: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2029: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2030: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2031: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2032: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2033: <p>
2034:
1.247 jufi 2035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2036: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2037: Open source under the hood</a>,
2038: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2039: </strong></font><br>
2040:
2041: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2042: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2043: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2044: <p>
2045:
1.247 jufi 2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2047: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2048: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2049: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2050: </strong></font><br>
2051:
2052: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2053: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2054: <p>
1.247 jufi 2055: </ul>
1.179 louis 2056:
1.174 louis 2057:
1.175 louis 2058: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2059: <ul>
1.175 louis 2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2062: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2063: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2064: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2065: </strong></font><br>
2066:
2067: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2068: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2069: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2070: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2071: <p>
2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2074: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2075: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2076: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2077: </strong></font><br>
2078:
2079: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2080: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2081: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2082: <p>
1.247 jufi 2083: </ul>
1.175 louis 2084:
1.176 louis 2085:
1.172 mickey 2086: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2087: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2088:
1.247 jufi 2089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2090: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2091: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2095: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2096: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2097: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2098: <p>
2099:
1.247 jufi 2100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2101: <a
1.269 deraadt 2102: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2103: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2104: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2105: </strong></font><br>
2106:
2107: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2108: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2109: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2110: <p>
2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2113: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2114: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2115: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2116: </strong></font><br>
2117:
2118: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2119: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2120: <p>
2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2123: <a
1.269 deraadt 2124: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2125: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2126: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2127: </strong></font><br>
2128:
2129: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2130: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2131: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2132: our own Theo de Raadt.
2133: <p>
2134:
1.247 jufi 2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2136: <a
1.269 deraadt 2137: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2138: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2139: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2140: </strong></font><br>
2141:
2142: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2143: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2144: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2145: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2146: shut down.]
2147: <p>
2148:
1.247 jufi 2149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2150: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2151: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2152: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2153: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2154: </strong></font><br>
2155:
2156: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2157: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2158: <p>
1.247 jufi 2159: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2160:
1.161 louis 2161: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2162: <ul>
1.161 louis 2163:
1.247 jufi 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2165: <a
1.269 deraadt 2166: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2167: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2168: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2169: </strong></font><br>
2170:
2171: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2172: by John Wolley
2173: <p>
2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2176: <a
1.269 deraadt 2177: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2178: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2179: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2180: </strong></font><br>
2181:
2182: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2183: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2184: OpenBSD).
2185: <p>
2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2188: <a
1.247 jufi 2189: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2190: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2191: </strong></font><br>
2192:
2193: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2194: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2195: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2196: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2197: and hindsight.
2198: <p>
2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2201: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2202: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2203: </strong></font><br>
2204:
2205: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2206: <p>
2207:
1.247 jufi 2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2209: <a
1.168 provos 2210: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2211: December 7, 2000
2212: </strong></font><br>
2213:
2214: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2215: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2216: us explain.
2217: <p>
2218:
1.247 jufi 2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2220: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2221: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2222: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2223: December 6, 2000
2224: </strong></font><br>
2225:
2226: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2227: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2228: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2229: <p>
2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2232: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2233: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2234: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2235: </strong></font><br>
2236:
2237: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2238: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2239: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2240: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2241: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2242: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2243: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2244: <p>
2245:
2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2247: <a
1.226 horacio 2248: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2249: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2250: </strong></font><br>
2251:
2252: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2253: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2254: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2255: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2256: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2257: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2258: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2259: <p>
1.162 millert 2260:
1.247 jufi 2261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2262: <a
1.161 louis 2263: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2264: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2265: </strong></font><br>
2266:
2267: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2268: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2269: <p>
2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2272: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2273: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2274: </strong></font><br>
2275:
2276: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2277: <p>
2278:
2279:
1.247 jufi 2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2281: <a
1.226 horacio 2282: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2283: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2284: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2285: </strong></font><br>
2286:
2287: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2288: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2289: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2290: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2291: <p>
1.247 jufi 2292: </ul>
1.169 louis 2293:
1.158 louis 2294: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2295: <ul>
1.147 louis 2296:
1.247 jufi 2297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2298: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2299: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2300: </strong></font><br>
2301:
2302: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2303: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2304: <p>
2305:
1.247 jufi 2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2307: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2308: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2309: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2310: </strong></font><br>
2311: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2312: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2313: <p>
2314:
1.247 jufi 2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2316: <a
2317: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2318: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2319: </strong></font><br>
2320:
2321: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2322: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2323: <p>
2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2326: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2327: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2328: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2329:
1.213 horacio 2330: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2331: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2332: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2333: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2334: <p>
1.215 horacio 2335:
1.247 jufi 2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2337: <a
2338: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2339: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2340: </strong></font><br>
2341:
2342: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2343: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2344: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2345: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2346: much of the attitude too).
2347: <p>
1.161 louis 2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2350: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2351: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2352: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2353:
1.157 louis 2354: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2355: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2356: <p>
1.247 jufi 2357: </ul>
1.157 louis 2358:
2359: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2360: <ul>
1.157 louis 2361:
1.247 jufi 2362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2363: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2364: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2365: </strong></font><br>
2366:
2367: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2368: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2369: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2370: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2371: <p>
2372:
1.247 jufi 2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2374: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2375: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2376: </strong></font><br>
2377:
2378: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2379: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2380: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2381: it because they love coding...
2382: <p>
2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2385: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2386: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2387: </strong></font><br>
2388:
2389: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2390: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2391: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2392: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2393: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2394: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2395: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2396: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2397: <p>
2398:
1.247 jufi 2399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2400: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2401: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2402: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2403: </strong></font><br>
2404:
2405: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2406: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2407: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2408: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2409: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2410: the pizza.
2411: <p>
2412:
1.247 jufi 2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2414: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2415: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2419: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2420: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2421: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2422: problems.
2423: <p>
2424:
1.247 jufi 2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2426: <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 2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
1.222 miod 2429: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2430: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2431: - whether they like it or not.
2432: <p>
2433:
1.247 jufi 2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2435: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2436: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2437: </strong></font><br>
2438:
2439: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2440: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2441: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2442: <p>
1.148 aaron 2443:
1.247 jufi 2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2445: <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 2446: </strong></font><br>
2447:
2448: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2449: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2450: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2451: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2452: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2453: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2454: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2455: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2456: <p>
2457:
1.247 jufi 2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2459: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2460: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2461: </strong></font><br>
2462:
2463: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2464: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2465: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2466: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2467: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2468: <p>
1.247 jufi 2469: </ul>
1.147 louis 2470:
1.138 louis 2471: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2472: <ul>
1.138 louis 2473:
1.247 jufi 2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2475: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2476: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2477: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2478: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2479: </strong></font><br>
2480:
1.227 horacio 2481: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2482: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2483: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2484: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2485: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2486: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2487: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2488: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2489: <p>
2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2492: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2493: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2494: </strong></font><br>
2495:
2496: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2497: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2498: groups, and even Linux.
2499: <p>
2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2502: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2503: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2504: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2505: </strong></font><br>
2506:
2507: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2508: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2509: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2510: library after installing the OS.
2511: <p>
2512:
1.247 jufi 2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2514: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2515: Sys Admin, September 2000
2516: </strong></font><br>
2517:
2518: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2519: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2520: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2521: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2522: (<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>,
2523: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2524: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2525: <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 2526: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2527: out of the system.
2528: <p>
2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2531: <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
2532: </strong></font><br>
2533:
2534: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2535: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2536: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2537: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2538: the IP filtering and address translation.
2539: <p>
1.301 jose 2540:
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2542: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2543: </strong></font><br>
2544:
2545: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2546: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2547: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2548: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2549: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2550: <p>
1.247 jufi 2551: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2552:
1.131 louis 2553: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2554: <ul>
1.131 louis 2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2557: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2558: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2559: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2560: </strong></font><br>
2561:
2562: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2563: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2564: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2565: <p>
2566:
1.247 jufi 2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2568: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2569: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2570: </strong></font><br>
2571:
2572: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2573: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2574: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2575: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2576: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2577: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2578: note of"</i>.
2579: <p>
2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2582: <a
1.247 jufi 2583: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2584: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2585: </strong></font><br>
2586:
2587: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2588: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2589: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2590: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2591: <p>
2592:
1.247 jufi 2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2594: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2595: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2596: </strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2599: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2600: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2601: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2602: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2603: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2604: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2605: <p>
2606:
1.247 jufi 2607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2608: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2609: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2610: 2000
2611: </strong></font><br>
2612:
2613: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2614: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2615: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2616: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2617: against current industry practices.
2618: <p>
2619:
1.247 jufi 2620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2621: <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
2622: </strong></font><br>
2623:
2624: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2625: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2626: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2627: <p>
2628:
1.247 jufi 2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2630: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2631: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2632: </strong></font><br>
2633:
2634: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2635: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2636: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2637: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2638: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2639: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2640: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2641: <p>
2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2644: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2645: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2646: </strong></font><br>
2647:
2648: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2649: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2650: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2651: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2652: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2653: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2654: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2655: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2656: <p>
1.247 jufi 2657: </ul>
1.131 louis 2658:
1.118 louis 2659: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2660: <ul>
1.118 louis 2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2663: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2664: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2665: </strong></font><br>
2666:
2667: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2668: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2669: about time. The article mentions that
2670: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2671: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2672: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2673: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2674: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2675: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2676: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2677: <p>
2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2680: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2681: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2682: </strong></font><br>
2683:
2684: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2685: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2686: of OpenSSH.
2687: <p>
2688:
1.247 jufi 2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2690: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2691: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2692: </strong></font><br>
2693:
2694: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2695: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2696: bridging.
2697: <p>
2698:
1.247 jufi 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2700: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2701: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2702: </strong></font><br>
2703:
1.121 deraadt 2704: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2705: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2709: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2710: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2711: </strong></font><br>
2712:
2713: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2714: <p>
2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2717: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2718: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2719: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2720: </strong></font><br>
2721:
1.120 deraadt 2722: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2723: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2724: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2725: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2726: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2727: <p>
2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2730: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2731: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2732: </strong></font><br>
2733:
1.222 miod 2734: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2735: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2736: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2737: protocols and their quirks.
2738: <p>
2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2741: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2742: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2743: </strong></font><br>
2744:
2745: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2746: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2747: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2748: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2752: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2753: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2754: </strong></font><br>
2755:
2756: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2757: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2758: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2759: <p>
2760:
1.247 jufi 2761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2762: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2763: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2764: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2765: </strong></font><br>
2766:
2767: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2768: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2769: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2770: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2771: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2772: <p>
1.247 jufi 2773: </ul>
1.118 louis 2774:
1.104 louis 2775: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2776: <ul>
1.104 louis 2777:
1.247 jufi 2778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2779: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2780: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2781: </strong></font><br>
2782:
2783: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2784: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2785: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2786: be a bit dry.
2787: <p>
2788:
1.247 jufi 2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2790: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2791: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2792: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2793: </strong></font><br>
2794: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2795: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2796: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2797: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2798: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2799: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2800: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2801: <p>
2802:
1.247 jufi 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2804: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2805: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2806: 2000
1.128 louis 2807: </strong></font><br>
2808:
2809: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2810: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2811: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2812: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2813: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2814: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2815: <p>
2816:
1.247 jufi 2817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2818: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2819: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2820: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2821:
2822: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2823: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2824: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2825: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2826: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2827: <p>
1.110 louis 2828:
1.247 jufi 2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2830: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2831: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2832: </strong></font><br>
2833:
2834: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2835: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2836: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2837: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2838: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2839: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2840: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2841: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2842: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2843: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2844: <p>
2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2847: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2848: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2849:
2850: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2851: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2852: <p>
1.108 louis 2853:
1.247 jufi 2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2855: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2856: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2857: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2858:
2859: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2860: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2861: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2862: <p>
1.106 louis 2863:
1.247 jufi 2864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2865: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2866: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2867: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2868:
2869: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2870: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2871: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2872: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2873: <p>
1.107 louis 2874:
1.247 jufi 2875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2876: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2877: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2878: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2879:
2880: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2881: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2882: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2883: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2884: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2885: <p>
1.105 louis 2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2888: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2889: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2890: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2891:
1.113 naddy 2892: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2893: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2894: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2895: <p>
1.104 louis 2896:
1.247 jufi 2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2898: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2899: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2900: </strong></font><br>
2901:
2902: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2903: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2904: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2905: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2906: <p>
1.301 jose 2907:
2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2909: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2910: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2911: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2912:
2913: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2914: hardware-supported cryptography.
2915: <p>
1.247 jufi 2916: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2917:
1.85 louis 2918: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2919: <ul>
1.85 louis 2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2922: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2923: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2924: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2925:
2926: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2927: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2928: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2929: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2930: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2931: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2932: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2933: <p>
1.99 louis 2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2936: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2937: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2938: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2939:
2940: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2941: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2942: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2943: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2944: <p>
1.100 louis 2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2947: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2948: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2949: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2950:
2951: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2952: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2953: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2954: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2955: <p>
1.95 louis 2956:
1.247 jufi 2957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2958: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2959: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2960: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2961:
2962: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2963: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2964: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2965: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2966: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2967: <p>
1.92 louis 2968:
1.247 jufi 2969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2970: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2971: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2972: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2973:
2974: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2975: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2976: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2977: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2978: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2979: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2980: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2981: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2982: <p>
1.91 louis 2983:
1.247 jufi 2984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2985: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2986: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2987: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2988:
2989: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2990: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2991: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2992: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2993: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2994: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2995: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2996: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2997: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2998: <p>
1.90 louis 2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3001: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3002: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3003: </strong></font><br>
3004: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3005: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3006: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3007: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3008: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3009: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3010: <p>
3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3013: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3014: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3015: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3016:
1.113 naddy 3017: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3018: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3019: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3020: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3021: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3022: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3023: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3024: <p>
1.87 louis 3025:
1.247 jufi 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3027: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3028: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3029: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3030:
3031: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3032: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3033: <p>
1.85 louis 3034:
1.247 jufi 3035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3036: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3037: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3038: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3039:
3040: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3041: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3042: <p>
3043:
3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3045: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3046: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3047: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3048:
3049: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3050: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3051: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3052: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3053: <p>
1.89 louis 3054:
1.247 jufi 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3056: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3057: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3058: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3059:
3060: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3061: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3062: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3063: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3064: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3065: </ul>
1.85 louis 3066:
1.78 deraadt 3067: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3068: <ul>
1.74 louis 3069:
1.247 jufi 3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3071: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3072: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3073: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3074: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3075:
3076: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3077: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3078: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3079: <p>
1.83 louis 3080:
1.247 jufi 3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3082: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3083: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3084: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3085:
3086: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3087: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3088: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3089: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3090: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3091: <p>
1.93 louis 3092:
1.247 jufi 3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3094: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3095: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3096: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3097: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3098:
1.83 louis 3099: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3100: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3101: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3102: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3103: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3104: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3105: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3106: <p>
1.82 aaron 3107:
1.247 jufi 3108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3109: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3110: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3111: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3112:
1.83 louis 3113: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3114: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3115: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3116: <p>
1.80 louis 3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3119: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3120: Bad Press</a>,
3121: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3122: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3123:
3124: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3125: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3126: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3127: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3128: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3129: <p>
1.247 jufi 3130: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3131:
3132: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3133: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3134:
1.247 jufi 3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3136: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3137: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3138: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3139: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3140:
3141: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3142: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3143: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3144: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3145: <p>
1.74 louis 3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3148: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3149: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3150: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3151:
1.219 horacio 3152: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3153: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3154: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3155: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3156: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3157: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3158: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3159: <p>
1.88 louis 3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3162: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3163: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3164: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3165:
3166: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3167: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3168: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3169: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3170: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3171: <p>
1.81 louis 3172:
1.247 jufi 3173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3174: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3175: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3176: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3177:
3178: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3179: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3180: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3181: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3182: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3183: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3184: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3185: <p>
1.90 louis 3186:
1.247 jufi 3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3188: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3189: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3190: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3191:
3192: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3193: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3194: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3195: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3196: <p>
1.247 jufi 3197: </ul>
1.71 louis 3198:
1.69 deraadt 3199: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3200: <ul>
1.70 louis 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3203: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3204: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3205: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3206:
3207: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3208: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3209: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3210: <p>
1.70 louis 3211:
1.247 jufi 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3213: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3214: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3215: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3216:
3217: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3218: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3219: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3220: <p>
1.68 louis 3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3223: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3224: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3225: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3226: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3227:
1.111 jufi 3228: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3229: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3230: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3231: "secure by default" installation.
3232: <p>
1.64 louis 3233:
1.247 jufi 3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3235: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3236: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3237: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3238:
1.113 naddy 3239: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3240: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3241: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3242: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3243: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3244: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3245: <p>
1.66 louis 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3248: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3249: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3250: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3251:
3252: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3253: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3254: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3255: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3256: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3257: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3258: <p>
1.83 louis 3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3261: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3262: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3263: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3264:
3265: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3266: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3267: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3268: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3269: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3270: <p>
1.64 louis 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3273: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3274: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3275: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3276:
3277: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3278: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3279: <p>
1.301 jose 3280:
3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3282: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3283: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3284: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3285: </strong></font><br>
3286:
3287: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3288: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3289: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3290: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3291: Giving way to
3292: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3293: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3294: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3295: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3296: <p>
1.247 jufi 3297: </ul>
1.65 louis 3298:
1.69 deraadt 3299: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3300: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3303: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3304: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3305: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3306:
3307: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3308: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3309: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3310: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3311: <p>
1.88 louis 3312:
1.247 jufi 3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3314: <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 3315: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3316:
3317: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3318: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3319: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3320: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3321: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3322: <p>
1.60 louis 3323:
1.247 jufi 3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3325: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3326: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3327: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3328: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3329:
3330: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3331: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3332: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3333: <p>
1.58 louis 3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3336: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3337: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3338:
3339: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3340: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3341: <p>
1.53 louis 3342:
1.247 jufi 3343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3344: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3345: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3346: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3347:
3348: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3349: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3350: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3351: <p>
1.99 louis 3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3354: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3355: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3356:
3357: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3358: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3359: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3360: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3361: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3362:
1.247 jufi 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3364: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3365: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3366: </strong></font><br>
3367:
3368: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3369: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3370: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3371: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3372: <p>
3373:
1.247 jufi 3374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3375: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3376: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3377: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3378:
3379: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3380: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3381: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3382:
1.247 jufi 3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3384: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3386:
3387: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3388: in
1.247 jufi 3389: <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 3390: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3391: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3392: <p>
1.53 louis 3393:
1.247 jufi 3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3395: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3396: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3397: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3398: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3399:
1.58 louis 3400: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3401: <p>
1.301 jose 3402:
3403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3404: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3405: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3406: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3407: Informacyjny, January 2000
3408: </strong></font><br>
3409:
3410: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3411: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3412: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3413: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3414: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3415: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3416: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3417: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3418: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3419: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3420: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3421: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3422: <p>
3423:
3424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3425: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3426: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3427: </strong></font><br>
3428:
3429: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3430: <p>
3431: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3432:
1.69 deraadt 3433: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3434: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3435:
1.247 jufi 3436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3437: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3438: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3439: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3440: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3441:
1.58 louis 3442: Kurt Seifried
3443: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3444: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3445: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3446: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3449: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3450: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3451: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3452:
3453: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3454: <p>
1.96 louis 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3457: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3458: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3459: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3460: </strong></font><br>
3461:
3462: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3463: <p>
3464:
3465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3466: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3467: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3468: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3469:
3470: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3471: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3472: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3473: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3474: <p>
1.247 jufi 3475: </ul>
1.86 louis 3476:
1.69 deraadt 3477: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3478: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3481: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3482: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3483: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3484:
3485: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3486: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3487: <p>
1.61 louis 3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3490: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3491: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3492: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3493: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3494:
3495: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3496: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3497: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3498: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3499: right -- or at least strives to".
3500: <p>
1.48 louis 3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3503: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3504: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3505: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3506: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3507: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3508: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3509: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3510: <p>
1.61 louis 3511:
1.247 jufi 3512: <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 3513: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3514: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3515:
3516: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3517: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3518: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3519: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3520: <p>
1.46 louis 3521:
1.247 jufi 3522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3523: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3524: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3525: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3526:
3527: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3528: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3529: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3530:
1.247 jufi 3531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3532: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3533: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3534: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3535:
3536: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3537: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3538: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3539: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3540: <p>
1.247 jufi 3541: </ul>
1.70 louis 3542:
1.69 deraadt 3543: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3544: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3545:
1.247 jufi 3546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3547: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3548: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3549: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3550: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3551:
3552: Kurt Seifried
3553: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3554: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3555: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3556: <p>
1.44 philen 3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <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 3559: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3560: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3561:
3562: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3563: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3564:
1.247 jufi 3565: <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 3566: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3567: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3568:
3569: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3570: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3571:
1.247 jufi 3572: <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 3573: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3574: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3575:
3576: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3577: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3578: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3579: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3580: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3581:
1.247 jufi 3582: <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 3583: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3584: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3585:
1.36 louis 3586: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3587: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3588:
1.247 jufi 3589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3590: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3591: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3592: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3593:
3594: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3595: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3596: </ul>
1.38 louis 3597:
1.69 deraadt 3598: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3599: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3600:
1.247 jufi 3601: <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 3602: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3603: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3604:
3605: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3606: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3607: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3608:
1.113 naddy 3609: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3610: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3611: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3612: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3613:
3614: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3615: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3616: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3617: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3618: <blockquote>
3619: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3620: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3621: <br>
3622: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3623: </code>
3624: </blockquote>
3625: <p>
3626:
1.247 jufi 3627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3628: <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 3629: <p>
3630:
3631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3632: <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 3633: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3634:
3635: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3636: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3637: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3638: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3641: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3642: Sept. 28, 1999
3643: </strong></font><br>
3644:
3645: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3646: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3647: translating and reprinting articles from
3648: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3649: <p>
3650:
3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3652: <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 3653: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3654:
3655: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3656: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3657: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3658: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3659: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3660: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3661: <p>
1.19 louis 3662:
1.113 naddy 3663: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3664: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3665: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3666:
3667: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3668: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3669: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3670: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3671: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.16 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3675: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3676: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3677: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3678:
1.57 louis 3679: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3680: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3681: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3682: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3685: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3686: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3687: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3688:
1.113 naddy 3689: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3690:
1.247 jufi 3691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3692: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3693: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3694: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3695:
1.23 louis 3696: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3697: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3698: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3699: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3700: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3701: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3704: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3705: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3706: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3707:
1.199 pvalchev 3708: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3709: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3710: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3711: installation.
1.113 naddy 3712: <p>
1.47 louis 3713:
1.247 jufi 3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3715: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3716: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3717: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3718:
1.301 jose 3719: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3720: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3721: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3722: </ul>
1.57 louis 3723:
1.69 deraadt 3724: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3725: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3726:
1.247 jufi 3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3728: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3729: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3730: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3731:
3732: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3733: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3734: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3735: <p>
1.12 louis 3736:
1.247 jufi 3737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3738: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3739: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3740: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3741:
3742: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3743: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3744: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3745: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3746: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3747: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3748: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3749: <p>
1.247 jufi 3750: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3751:
1.69 deraadt 3752: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3753: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3754:
1.247 jufi 3755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3756: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3757: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3758:
3759: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3760: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3761: available."
1.113 naddy 3762: <p>
1.301 jose 3763:
3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3765: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3766: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3767: </strong></font><br>
3768:
3769: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3770: <p>
1.247 jufi 3771: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3772:
1.69 deraadt 3773: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3774: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3777: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3778: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3779:
3780: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3781: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3782: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3783: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3784: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3785: <p>
1.33 louis 3786:
1.247 jufi 3787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3788: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3789: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3790: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3791:
1.113 naddy 3792: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3793: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3794: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3795: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3796: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3797: <p>
1.247 jufi 3798: </ul>
1.57 louis 3799:
1.69 deraadt 3800: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3801: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3802:
1.247 jufi 3803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3804: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3805: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3806: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3807:
3808: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3809: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3810: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3811:
1.247 jufi 3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3813: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3814: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3815: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3816: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3817:
3818: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3819: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3822: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3823:
1.113 naddy 3824: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3827: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3828: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3829: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3830:
3831: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3832: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3833: </ul>
1.23 louis 3834:
1.69 deraadt 3835: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3836: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3837:
1.247 jufi 3838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3839: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3840: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3841:
3842: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3843: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3844: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3845:
1.247 jufi 3846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3847: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3848: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3849: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3850:
3851: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3852: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3853: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3854: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3855: </ul>
1.57 louis 3856:
1.69 deraadt 3857: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3858: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3861: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3862: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3863: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3864:
3865: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3866: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3867: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3868: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3869: <p>
1.15 louis 3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3872: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3873: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3874: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3875:
3876: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3877: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3878: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3879: columns."
1.113 naddy 3880: <p>
1.247 jufi 3881: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3882:
1.69 deraadt 3883: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3884: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3885:
1.247 jufi 3886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3887: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3888: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3889: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3890:
3891: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3892: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3893:
1.113 naddy 3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3895: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3896: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3897:
3898: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3899: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3900: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3901: </ul>
1.57 louis 3902:
1.69 deraadt 3903: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3904: <ul>
1.301 jose 3905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3906: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3907: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3908: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3909:
3910: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3911: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3912: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3913: <p>
3914:
3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3916: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3917: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3918: Nov 13, 1998 and
3919: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3920: Datateknik</a>,
3921: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3922:
1.380 saad 3923: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 3924: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3925: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3926: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3927: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3928:
1.113 naddy 3929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3930: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3931: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3932: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3933:
1.222 miod 3934: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3935: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3936: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3937: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3938: <p>
1.247 jufi 3939: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3940:
1.69 deraadt 3941: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3942: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3943:
1.247 jufi 3944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3945: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3946: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3947:
1.69 deraadt 3948: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3949: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3950: <p>
1.247 jufi 3951: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3952:
1.69 deraadt 3953: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3954: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3957: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3958: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3959: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3960:
1.383 jcs 3961: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 3962: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3963: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3964:
1.247 jufi 3965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3966: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3967: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3968: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3969: <p>
1.247 jufi 3970: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3971:
1.69 deraadt 3972: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3973: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3974:
1.247 jufi 3975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3976: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 3977: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
3978: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3979: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3980: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3981:
3982: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3983: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3984: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3985: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3986: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3987: <p>
1.247 jufi 3988: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3989:
3990: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3991: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3994: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3995: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3996:
1.69 deraadt 3997: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3998: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3999: <p>
1.112 naddy 4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4002: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4003:
1.292 camield 4004: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4005: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4006: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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