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1.393 ! david 19: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
! 23: Secure by Default</a>,
! 24: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
! 27: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
! 28: <p>
! 29:
! 30: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 31: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
! 32: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
! 33: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
! 34: </strong></font><br>
! 35: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
! 36: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
! 37: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
! 38: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
! 39: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
! 40: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
! 41: <p>
! 42:
! 43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 44: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
! 45: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
! 46: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
! 47: </strong></font><br>
! 48: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
! 49: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
! 50: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
! 51: <p>
! 52:
! 53: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 54: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
! 55: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
! 56: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
! 57: </strong></font><br>
! 58: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
! 59: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
! 60: <p>
! 61: </ul>
! 62:
1.388 mcbride 63: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
64: <ul>
1.390 beck 65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 ! david 66: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
! 67: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
! 68: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
! 69: </strong></font><br>
! 70: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
! 71: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
! 72: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
! 73: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
! 74: <p>
! 75:
! 76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 77: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
78: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 79: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 80: </strong></font><br>
81: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
82: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
83: it does: CARP provides sharing
84: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
85: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
86: detail to get you started using it.
87: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
88: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
89: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
90: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
91: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
92: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
93: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 94: <p>
1.391 ian 95:
96: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 97: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 98: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
99: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 100: </strong></font><br>
101: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 102: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 103: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 104: <p>
1.388 mcbride 105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
107: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
108: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 109: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 110: </strong></font><br>
111: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
112: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
113: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
114: unencumbered by patents.
115: <p>
116: </ul>
117:
1.378 henning 118: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
119: <ul>
1.384 jose 120:
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 122: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
123: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
124: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
125: </strong></font><br>
126: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
127: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
128: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
129: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
130: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
131: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
132: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
133: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
134: in the page tables."
135: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 139: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
140: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
141: </strong></font><br>
142: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
143: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
144: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
145: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 146: <p>
1.384 jose 147:
1.378 henning 148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
150: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 151: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
152: </strong></font><br>
153: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
154: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
155: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
156: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
157: (quote:
158: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
159: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 160: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 161: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
162: the other developers for their work on the system.
163: <p>
164:
165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 166: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
167: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
168: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 169: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 170: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
171: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
172: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
173: too.
174: <p>
175:
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 177: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
178: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 179: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 180: OpenBSD source code using
181: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
182: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
183: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
184: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
185: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
186: <p>
187: </ul>
188:
1.374 jose 189: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
190: <ul>
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 192: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 193: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
194: </strong></font><br>
195: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
196: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
197: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
198: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
199: it."
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 203: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
204: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
205: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
206: </strong></font><br/>
207: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
208: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
209: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
210: <p>
211: </ul>
212:
1.369 ian 213: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
214: <ul>
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 216: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
217: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
218: </strong></font><br/>
219: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
220: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
221: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
222: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
223: <p>
224:
225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 226: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
227: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
228: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
229: </strong></font><br/>
230: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
231: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
232: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
233: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
234: form factor.
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
238: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
239: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
240: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
241: Features</a>,
242: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
243: </strong></font><br/>
244: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
245: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
246: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
247: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
248: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
249: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
250: <p>
251: This article can also be found online at:
252: <ul>
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 254: <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 255: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
256: </strong></font>
257: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
258: </ul>
259: <p>
1.392 david 260:
1.371 jose 261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 262: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
263: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 264: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
265: </strong></font><br/>
266: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
267: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
268: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 269: <p>
1.371 jose 270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 272: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 273: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 274: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 275: </strong></font><br/>
276: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
277: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
278: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
279: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
280: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
281: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
282: and its history with OpenBSD.
283: </ul>
284:
1.368 henning 285: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
286: <ul>
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 288: [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 289: </strong></font><br>
290: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
291: </ul>
292:
1.364 jose 293: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
294: <ul>
295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 296: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
297: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
298: UNIX Review,
299: July, 2003.
300: </strong></font><br>
301: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
302: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
303: who want more information.
304: <p>
305:
306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 307: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
308: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
309: Government Computer News,
310: July 22, 2003.
311: </strong></font><br>
312: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
313: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
314: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
315: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
316: <p>
317:
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
320: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
321: SANS Institute,
322: July 22, 2003.
323: </strong></font><br>
324: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 325: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 326: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
327: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
328: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
329: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
330: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
331: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
332: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
333: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
334: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 338: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
339: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
340: OnLamp.com,
341: July 17, 2003.
342: </strong></font><br>
343: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
344: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
345: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
346: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
347: have been working on.
348:
349: </ul>
350:
1.356 jose 351: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 352: <ul>
353:
354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 355: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
356: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
357: UNIX Review,
358: June, 2003.
359: </strong></font><br>
360: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
361: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
362: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
363: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 367: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
368: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
369: eWeek,
370: June 23, 2003.
371: </strong></font><br>
372: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
373: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
374: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
375: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
376: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
377: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 381: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
382: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
383: Software Development Online,
384: June, 2003.
385: </strong></font><br>
386: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
387: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
388: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
389: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
390: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
391: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
392: current activities.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 396: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
397: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 398: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
399: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
400: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
401: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
402: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
403: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
404: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
405: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 406: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 407: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
408: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
409: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
410: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
411: decisions.
412: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
413: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
414: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
415: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 416: <p>
417:
418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 419: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
420: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
421: Page 58, eWeek,
422: June 2, 2003.
423: </strong></font><br>
424: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
425: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
426: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
427: been addressed in -current.
428: <p>
429:
1.356 jose 430: </ul>
431:
432: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
433: <ul>
434:
1.355 jose 435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 436: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
437: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
438: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
439: </strong></font><br>
440: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
441: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
442: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
443: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
444: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
445: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
446: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 450: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
451: Beyond Linux</a>,
452: InfoWorld,
453: May 23, 2003.
454: </strong></font><br>
455: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
456: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
457: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
458: compared to the GPL.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 462: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
463: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
464: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 465: May 17, 2003.
466: </strong></font><br>
467: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
468: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
469: the business section and half of another page inside
470: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
471: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
472: in talking about the project's history and goals.
473: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
474: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
475: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
476: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 477: <br>
478: This article can also be found online at:
479: <ul>
480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
481: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
482: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
483: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
484: May 17, 2003
485: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 486: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
488: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
489: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
490: Montreal Gazette,
491: May 21, 2003
492: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 493: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 494: <p>
1.346 ian 495:
496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 497: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 498: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 499: May 7, 2003.
500: </strong></font><br>
501: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
502: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
503: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 507: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
508: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
509: OsOpinion,
510: May 6, 2003.
511: </strong></font><br>
512: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
513: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
514: <br>
515: This article can also be found online at:
516: <ul>
517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
518: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
519: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
520: NewsFactor Network.
521: </strong></font>
522: </ul>
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 526: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 527: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
528: ITBusiness,
529: May 2, 2003.
530: </strong></font><br>
531: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
532: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
533: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
534: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 538: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
539: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
540: InfoWorld,
541: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 542: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 543: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
544: <br>
545: This article can also be found online at:
546: <ul>
547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
548: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
549: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
550: IDG Singapore.
551: </strong></font>
552: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 553: <p>
554:
1.339 jose 555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
557: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 558: ZDNet,
559: May 1, 2003.
560: </strong></font><br>
561: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 562: someone using parts from previous articles.
563: <br>
1.341 deraadt 564: This article can also be found online at:
565: <ul>
566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
567: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
568: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
569: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 570: </strong></font>
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
572: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
573: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
574: CNET News.com.
575: </strong></font>
576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
577: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
578: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
579: ZDNet UK.
580: </strong></font>
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
582: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
583: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
584: Help Net Security, Croatia.
585: </strong></font>
586: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 587: <p>
1.339 jose 588:
1.341 deraadt 589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 590: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 591: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
592: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
593: May 1, 2003.
594: </strong></font><br>
595: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
596: that have been added
597: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
598: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
599: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 600: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 601: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
602: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
603: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 604: <p>
605:
606: </ul>
607:
1.253 ian 608: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
609: <ul>
1.255 ian 610:
1.260 ian 611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 612: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 613: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
614: TechRepublic,
615: April 28, 2003.
616: </strong></font><br>
617: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
618: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 619: work.<br>
620: Can also be found online at:
621: <ul>
622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
623: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
624: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
625: ZDNet UK.
626: </strong></font>
627: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 628: <p>
629:
630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 631: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
632: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
633: IDG,
634: April 24, 2003.
635: </strong></font><br>
636: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
637: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
638: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
639: Can also be found online at:
640: <ul>
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
642: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
643: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 644: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 645: </strong></font>
646: </ul>
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
650: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 651: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 652: Slate,
653: April 24, 2003.
654: </strong></font><br>
655: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
656: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
657: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
658: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 662: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
663: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
664: April 24, 2003.
665: </strong></font><br>
666: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
667: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
668: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
669: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
670: <p>
671:
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 673: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
674: April 24, 2003.
675: </strong></font><br>
676: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
677: the free software community".
678: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
679: other articles.
680: <p>
681:
682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 683: <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 684: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
685: </strong></font><br>
686: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
687: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
688: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
689: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
690: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
691: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
692: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
693: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
694: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
695: <br/>
696: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
697: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
698: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
699: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 700: <br>
701: Can also be found online at:
702: <ul>
703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
704: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
705: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
706: Common Dreams NewsCenter
707: </strong></font>
708: </ul>
1.324 ian 709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
712: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
713: Wired, April 24, 2003.
714: </strong></font><br>
715: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
716: article above.
717: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
718: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
719: wasting them."
1.332 ian 720: <br>
721: Can also be found online at:
722: <ul>
723: <li>
724: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
725: </strong></font>
726: </ul>
1.324 ian 727: <p>
728:
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 730: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
731: </strong></font><br>
732: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 736: <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.
737: </strong></font><br>
738: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
739: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
740: <p>
741:
742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 743: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
744: April 23, 2003.
745: </strong></font><br>
746: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
747: <p>
748:
749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 750: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 751: April 22, 2003.
752: </strong></font><br>
753: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
754: <p>
755:
756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 757: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
758: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
759: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 760: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 761: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
762: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
763: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
764: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
765: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
766: Can also be found online at:
767: <ul>
768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
769: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 770: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
771: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 772: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
774: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 775: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
776: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 777: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 778: </ul>
779: <p>
780:
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 782: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
783: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 784: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 785: </strong></font><br>
786: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 787: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
788: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
789: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
790: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
791: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
792: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 793: <p>
794:
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 796: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
797: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 798: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
799: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 800: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
801: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
802: at UPenn and DARPA.
803: <p>
804:
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 806: [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,
807: France
1.315 deraadt 808: April 18, 2003.
809: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 810: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 814: [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 815: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 816: </strong></font><br>
817: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
818: <p>
819:
820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 821: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
822: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
823: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 824: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 825: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
826: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
827: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
828: <p>
829:
830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 831: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
832: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 833: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 834: </strong></font><br>
835: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
836: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
837: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 838: American century.
1.267 deraadt 839: <p>
840:
841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 842: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
843: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 844: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 845: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 846: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
847: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
848: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
849: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
850: Can also be found online at:
851: <ul>
852: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
853: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 854: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 855: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 856: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 857: <p>
858:
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 860: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 861: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 862: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 863: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 864: </strong></font><br>
865: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 866: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
867: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
868: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
869: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 870:
871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
872: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
873: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
874: New York Times.
875: </strong></font>(free registration required)
876:
1.273 deraadt 877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
878: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 879: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 880: ABC News.
881: </strong></font>
882:
883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 884: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 885: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 886: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 887: </strong></font>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 890: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 891: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 892: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 893: </strong></font>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 896: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
897: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 898: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 899: </strong></font>
900:
901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 902: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 903: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 904: Times Daily, AL.
905: </strong></font>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
908: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
909: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
910: Boston.com, MA.
911: </strong></font>
912:
913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 914: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 915: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 916: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
917: </strong></font>
918:
919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 920: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
921: [Article was pulled]</a>
922: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 923: </strong></font>
924:
925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
926: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
927: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
928: Infoshop News.
929: </strong></font>
930:
931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
932: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
933: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
934: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
935: </strong></font>
936:
937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 938: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
939: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
940: Raleigh News, NC.
941: </strong></font>
942:
943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 944: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 945: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
946: Napa News, CA.
947: </strong></font>
948:
949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 950: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 951: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
952: NEPA News, PA.
953: </strong></font>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
956: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
957: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
958: Wired News.
959: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 960: <br>
961: <li>
1.333 deraadt 962: <font color="#009000"><strong>
963: [JAPANESE]
964: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
965: Wired News Japan</a>
966: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 967:
1.271 deraadt 968: </ul>
969: <p>
1.272 deraadt 970: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
971: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 972: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
973: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
974: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
975: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
976: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
977: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 978: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 979: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
980: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
981: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 982: <p>
983: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 984:
985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 986: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 987: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
988: Indianapolis Star, IN.
989: </strong></font>
990:
991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 992: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
993: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
994: Miami Herald, FL.
995: </strong></font>
996:
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 998: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 999: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1000: </strong></font>
1001:
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1003: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1004: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1005: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1006: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1007:
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1010: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1011: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1012: ABC News.
1013: </strong></font>
1014:
1.276 deraadt 1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1016: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1017: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1018: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1019: </strong></font>
1020:
1.286 dhartmei 1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1022: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1023: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1024: Wilmington Star, NC.
1025: </strong></font>
1026:
1.300 jose 1027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1028: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1029: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1030: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1031: </strong></font>
1032:
1.309 jose 1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1034: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1035: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1036: Globe Technology.
1037: </strong></font>
1038:
1.263 deraadt 1039: </ul>
1.262 beck 1040: <p>
1041:
1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1043: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1044: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1045: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1046: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1047: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1048: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1049: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1053: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1054: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1055: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1056: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1057: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1058: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1059: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1060: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1061: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1062: and simply restates other press reports.
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1066: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1067: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1068: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1069: </strong></font><br>
1070: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1071: <p>
1072:
1073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1074: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1075: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1076: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1077: </strong></font><br>
1078: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1079: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1080: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1084: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1085: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1086: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1087: April 17, 2003.
1088: </strong></font><br>
1089: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1090: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1091: Tech Anthems</a>
1092: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1093: 4 so far.
1094: <p>
1095:
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1097: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1098: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1099: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1100: </strong></font><br>
1101: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1102: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1103: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1104: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1105: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1106: Goes on to say:
1107: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1108: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1109: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1110: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1111: This article is also found online at:
1112: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1114: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1115: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1116: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1117: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1119: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1120: ZDnet</a>,
1121: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1122: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1124: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1125: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1126: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1127: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1128: </ul>
1.260 ian 1129: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1130:
1.260 ian 1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1132: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1133: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1134: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1135: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1136: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1137: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1138: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1139: without notice or justification.
1140: <p>
1141:
1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1143: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1144: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1145: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1146: </strong></font><br>
1147: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1148: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1149: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1150: effective today, without any warning..."
1151: <p>
1.257 ian 1152:
1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1154: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1155: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1156: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1157: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1158: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1159: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1160: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1161: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1162: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1166: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1167: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1168: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1171: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1172: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1173: quoting two of them:
1174: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1175: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1176: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1177: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1178: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1179: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.255 ian 1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1183: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1184: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1185: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1186: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1187: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1188: <p>
1189:
1190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1191: [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 1192: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1193: </strong></font><br>
1194: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1198: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1199: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1200: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1201: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1202: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1203: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1204: security experts for more than three decades."
1205: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1206: <p>
1.261 ian 1207:
1.254 drahn 1208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1209: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1210: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1211: </strong></font><br>
1212: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1216: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1217: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1218: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1219: </strong></font><br>
1220: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1221: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1222: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1226: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1227: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1228: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1229: </strong></font><br>
1230: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1231: from US DARPA.
1232: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1233: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1234: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1235: the BSD license.
1236: <p>
1237: </ul>
1238:
1.251 ian 1239: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1240: <ul>
1241:
1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1243: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1244: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1245: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1246: </strong></font><br>
1247:
1248: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1249: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1250: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1251: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1255: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1256: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1257: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1258: </strong></font><br>
1259: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1260: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1261: Mentions
1262: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1263: and
1264: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1265: programs.
1266: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1267: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1268: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1269: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1270: <p>
1.325 ian 1271: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1272: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1273:
1274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1275: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1276: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1277: </strong></font><br>
1278: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1279: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1280: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1281: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1282: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1283: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1284: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1285: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1286: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1287: put into service."
1288: <p>
1289: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1290: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1291: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1292: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1293: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1294: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1295: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1296: computers with security features."
1297: <p>
1.329 ian 1298:
1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1300: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1301: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1302: Slate,
1303: March 3, 2003.
1304: </strong></font><br>
1305: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1306: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1307: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1308: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1309: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1310: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1311: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1312: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1313: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1314: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1315: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1316: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1317: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1318: of more secure open-source solutions like
1319: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1320: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1321: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1322: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1323: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1324: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1325: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1326: the Beltway."
1327: <p>
1.251 ian 1328: </ul>
1329:
1.249 jufi 1330: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1331: <ul>
1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1333: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1334: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1335: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1336: </strong></font><br>
1337: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1338: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1339: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1340: <p>
1.334 ian 1341:
1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1343: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1344: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1345: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1346: </strong></font><br>
1347: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1348: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1349: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1350: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1351: "... the hypothetical question ...
1352: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1353: <br>
1354: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1355: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1356: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1357: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1358: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1359: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1361: support network security.
1362: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1363: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1364: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1365: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1366: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1367: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1368: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1369: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1370: <br>
1371: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1372: <p>
1373:
1.249 jufi 1374: </ul>
1375:
1.246 jufi 1376: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1377: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1378:
1.247 jufi 1379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1380: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1381: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1382: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1383: </strong></font><br>
1384: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1385: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1386: <p>
1387:
1.247 jufi 1388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1389: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1390: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1391: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1392: </strong></font><br>
1393: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1394: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1395: <p>
1396:
1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1398: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1399: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1400: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1401: </strong></font><br>
1402: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1403: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1404: <p>
1.247 jufi 1405: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1406:
1.244 jufi 1407: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1408: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1409:
1.247 jufi 1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1411: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1412: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1413: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1414: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1415: </strong></font><br>
1416: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1417: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1418: md5 digests.
1419: <p>
1420:
1.247 jufi 1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1422: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1423: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1424: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1425: </strong></font><br>
1426: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1427: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1428: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1429: right the first time."
1430: <p>
1.247 jufi 1431: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1432:
1433:
1434: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1435: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1436:
1.247 jufi 1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1438: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1439: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1440: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1441: </strong></font><br>
1442: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1443: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1444: part 6</a>.
1445: <p>
1446:
1.247 jufi 1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1448: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1449: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1450: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1451: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1452: </strong></font><br>
1453: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1454: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1455: <p>
1.301 jose 1456:
1457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1458: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1459: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1460: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1461: </strong></font><br>
1462:
1463: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1464: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1465: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1466: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1467: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1468: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1469: <i>Here's the
1470: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1471: <p>
1.247 jufi 1472: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1473:
1474: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1475: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1476:
1.247 jufi 1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1478: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1479: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1480: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1481: </strong></font><br>
1482: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1483: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1484: <p>
1485:
1.247 jufi 1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1487: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1488: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1489: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1490: </strong></font><br>
1491: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1492: this time using pf.
1493: <p>
1.247 jufi 1494: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1495:
1496: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1497: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1498:
1.247 jufi 1499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1500: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1501: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1502: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1503: </strong></font><br>
1504: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1505: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1506: their rotation.
1507: <p>
1508:
1.247 jufi 1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1510: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1511: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1512: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1513: </strong></font><br>
1514: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1515: <p>
1.247 jufi 1516: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1517:
1.239 jufi 1518: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1519: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1522: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1523: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1524: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1525: </strong></font><br>
1526: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1527: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1528: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1532: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1533: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1534: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1535: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1536: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1537: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1538: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1539: <p>
1.247 jufi 1540: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1541:
1.235 lebel 1542: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1543: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1544:
1.239 jufi 1545:
1.247 jufi 1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1547: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1548: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1549: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1550: </strong></font><br>
1551: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1552: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1553: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1554: <p>
1.301 jose 1555:
1.247 jufi 1556: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1557:
1.228 horacio 1558: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1559: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1560:
1.247 jufi 1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1563: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1564: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1565: </strong></font><br>
1566: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1567: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1568: <p>
1569:
1.247 jufi 1570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1571: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1572: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1573: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1576: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1577: <p>
1578:
1.247 jufi 1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1580: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1581: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1582: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1583: </strong></font><br>
1584: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1585: on the desktop of his parents.
1586: <p>
1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1589: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1590: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1591: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1592: </strong></font><br>
1593: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1594: using IPFilter.
1595:
1596: <p>
1597:
1.247 jufi 1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1599: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1600: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1601: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1602: </strong></font><br>
1603: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1604: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1605: perspectives of the four OS.
1606: <br>
1607: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1608: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1609: <p>
1610:
1.247 jufi 1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1612: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1613: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1614: software and security</a>,
1615: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1616: </strong></font><br>
1617:
1618: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1619: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1620: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1621: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1622: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1623: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1624: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1625: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1626: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1627: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1628: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1629: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1630: <p>
1.247 jufi 1631: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1632:
1.225 horacio 1633: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1634: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1635:
1.247 jufi 1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1637: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1638: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1639: Interview</a>,
1640: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1641: </strong></font><br>
1642:
1643: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1644: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1645: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1646: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1647: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1648: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1649: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1650: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1651: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1652: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1653: of choice.
1654: <p>
1.247 jufi 1655: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1656:
1657: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1658: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1659:
1.247 jufi 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1661: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1662: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1663: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1664: </strong></font><br>
1665:
1666: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1667: <p>
1668:
1.247 jufi 1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1670: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1671: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1672: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1673: </strong></font><br>
1674:
1675: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1676: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1677: <p>
1.247 jufi 1678: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1679:
1.218 horacio 1680: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1681: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1682:
1.247 jufi 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1684: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1685: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1686: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1689: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1690: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1691: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1692: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1693: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1694: subjects. Worth a read.
1695: <p>
1696:
1697:
1.247 jufi 1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1699: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1700: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1701: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1702: </strong></font><br>
1703:
1704: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1705: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1706: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1707: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1708: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1709: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1710: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1711: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1712: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1713: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1714: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1715: on other operating systems.<br>
1716: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1717: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1718: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1719: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1720: <p>
1721:
1.247 jufi 1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1723: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1724: Operating System 2010</a>,
1725: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1726: </strong></font><br>
1727:
1728: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1729: covering the level of software integration into the core
1730: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1731: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1732: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1733: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1734: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1735: <p>
1736:
1.247 jufi 1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1738: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1739: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1740: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1741: </strong></font><br>
1742:
1743: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1744: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1745: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1746: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1747: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1748: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1749: <p>
1.247 jufi 1750: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1751:
1.210 jufi 1752: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1753: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1754:
1.247 jufi 1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1756: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1757: Already a Contender</a>,
1758: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1759: </strong></font><br>
1760:
1761: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1762: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1763: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1764: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1765: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1766: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1767: <p>
1768:
1.247 jufi 1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1770: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1771: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1772: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1774:
1.224 horacio 1775: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1776: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1777: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1778: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1779: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1780: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1781: <p>
1.247 jufi 1782: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1783:
1784: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1785: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1786:
1.247 jufi 1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1788: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1789: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1790: Division</a>,
1791: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1792: </strong></font><br>
1793:
1794: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1795: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1796: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1797: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1798: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1799: investment</em>.<br>
1800: The implementation details can be seen on their
1801: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1802: <p>
1803:
1.247 jufi 1804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1805: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1806: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1807: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1808: </strong></font><br>
1809:
1810: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1811: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1812: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1813: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1814: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1815: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1816: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1817: <p>
1818:
1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1820: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1821: Thinking about Security</a>,
1822: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1823: </strong></font><br>
1824:
1825: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1826: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1827: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1828: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1829: to time.<br>
1830: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1831: system and just the most secure system.
1832: <p>
1833:
1.247 jufi 1834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1835: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1836: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1837: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1838: </strong></font><br>
1839:
1840: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1841: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1842: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1843: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1844: choice:<br>
1845: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1846: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1847: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1848: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1849: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1850: network security devices and as such must be well
1851: armored."</em><br>
1852: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1853: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1854: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1855: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1856: <br>
1857: Bravo!
1858: <p>
1.247 jufi 1859: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1860:
1.207 ian 1861: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1862: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1863:
1.247 jufi 1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1865: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1866: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1867: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1868:
1.207 ian 1869: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1870: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1871: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1872: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1873: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1874: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1875: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1876: <p>
1.247 jufi 1877: </ul>
1.207 ian 1878:
1.194 jufi 1879: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1880: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1881:
1.247 jufi 1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1883: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1884: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1885: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1886: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1887:
1.240 miod 1888: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1889: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1890: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1891: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1892: <p>
1893:
1.247 jufi 1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1895: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1896: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1897: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1898:
1899: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1900: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1901: <p>
1902:
1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1904: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1905: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1906: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1907:
1908: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1909: <p>
1910:
1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1912: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1913: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1914: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1915: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1916:
1.240 miod 1917: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1918: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1919: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1920: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1921: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1922: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1923: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1924: <br>
1925: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1926: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1927: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1928: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1929: <p>
1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1932: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1933: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1934: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1935: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1936:
1.194 jufi 1937: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1938: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1939: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1940: <br>
1941: The new
1942: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1943: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1944: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1945: <p>
1.247 jufi 1946: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1947:
1.190 horacio 1948: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1949: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1950:
1.247 jufi 1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1952:
1953: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1954: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1955:
1.301 jose 1956:
1.191 jufi 1957: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1958: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1959:
1960: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1961: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1962:
1.212 horacio 1963: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1964: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1965: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1966:
1.211 horacio 1967: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1968: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1969: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1970:
1.247 jufi 1971: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1972: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1973:
1.247 jufi 1974: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1975: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1976:
1.212 horacio 1977: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1978: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1979: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1980:
1981: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1982: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1983:
1984: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1985: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1986:
1.301 jose 1987: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1988: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1989:
1.191 jufi 1990: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1991: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1992:
1993: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1994: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1995:
1.192 jufi 1996: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1997: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1998: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1999:
1.193 deraadt 2000: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2001: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2002: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2003:
1.247 jufi 2004: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2005: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2008: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2009: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2010:
1.213 horacio 2011: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2012: 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 2013: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2014:
1.190 horacio 2015: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2016: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2017: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2018: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2019: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2020: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2021: <p>
1.190 horacio 2022:
1.247 jufi 2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2024: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2025: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2026: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2027: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2028:
1.195 jufi 2029: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2030: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2031: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2032: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2033: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2034: <p>
2035:
1.247 jufi 2036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2037: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2038: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2039: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2040: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2041:
1.191 jufi 2042: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2043: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2044: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2045: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2046: <p>
2047:
2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2049: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2050: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2051: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2052:
2053: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2054: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2055: <p>
1.247 jufi 2056: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2057:
1.191 jufi 2058:
1.186 jufi 2059: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2060: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2061:
1.247 jufi 2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2063: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2064: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2065: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2066: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2067:
1.188 jufi 2068: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2069: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2070: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2071: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2072: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2073: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2074: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2075: <p>
2076:
1.301 jose 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2078: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2079: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2080: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2081:
2082: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2083: <p>
1.191 jufi 2084:
1.247 jufi 2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2086: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2087: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2088: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2089: </strong></font><br>
2090:
2091: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2092: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2093: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2094: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2095: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2096: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2097: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2098: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2099: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2100: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2101: familiar?
2102: <p>
1.247 jufi 2103: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2104:
1.178 louis 2105: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2106: <ul>
1.178 louis 2107:
1.247 jufi 2108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2109: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2110: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2111: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2112: </strong></font><br>
2113:
2114: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2115: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2116: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2117: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2118: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2119: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2120: <p>
2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2123: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2124: Open source under the hood</a>,
2125: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2126: </strong></font><br>
2127:
2128: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2129: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2130: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2131: <p>
2132:
1.247 jufi 2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2134: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2135: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2136: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2137: </strong></font><br>
2138:
2139: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2140: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2141: <p>
1.247 jufi 2142: </ul>
1.179 louis 2143:
1.174 louis 2144:
1.175 louis 2145: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2146: <ul>
1.175 louis 2147:
1.247 jufi 2148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2149: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2150: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2151: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2152: </strong></font><br>
2153:
2154: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2155: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2156: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2157: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2158: <p>
2159:
1.247 jufi 2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2161: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2162: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2163: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2164: </strong></font><br>
2165:
2166: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2167: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2168: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2169: <p>
1.247 jufi 2170: </ul>
1.175 louis 2171:
1.176 louis 2172:
1.172 mickey 2173: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2174: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2177: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2178: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2179: </strong></font><br>
2180:
2181: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2182: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2183: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2184: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2185: <p>
2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2188: <a
1.269 deraadt 2189: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2190: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2191: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2192: </strong></font><br>
2193:
2194: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2195: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2196: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2197: <p>
2198:
1.247 jufi 2199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2200: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2201: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2202: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2203: </strong></font><br>
2204:
2205: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2206: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2207: <p>
2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2210: <a
1.269 deraadt 2211: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2212: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2213: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2214: </strong></font><br>
2215:
2216: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2217: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2218: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2219: our own Theo de Raadt.
2220: <p>
2221:
1.247 jufi 2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2223: <a
1.269 deraadt 2224: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2225: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2226: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2227: </strong></font><br>
2228:
2229: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2230: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2231: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2232: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2233: shut down.]
2234: <p>
2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2237: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2238: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2239: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2240: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2241: </strong></font><br>
2242:
2243: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2244: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2245: <p>
1.247 jufi 2246: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2247:
1.161 louis 2248: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2249: <ul>
1.161 louis 2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2252: <a
1.269 deraadt 2253: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2254: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2255: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2256: </strong></font><br>
2257:
2258: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2259: by John Wolley
2260: <p>
2261:
1.247 jufi 2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2263: <a
1.269 deraadt 2264: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2265: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2266: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2267: </strong></font><br>
2268:
2269: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2270: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2271: OpenBSD).
2272: <p>
2273:
1.247 jufi 2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2275: <a
1.247 jufi 2276: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2277: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2278: </strong></font><br>
2279:
2280: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2281: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2282: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2283: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2284: and hindsight.
2285: <p>
2286:
1.247 jufi 2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2288: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2289: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2290: </strong></font><br>
2291:
2292: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2293: <p>
2294:
1.247 jufi 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2296: <a
1.168 provos 2297: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2298: December 7, 2000
2299: </strong></font><br>
2300:
2301: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2302: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2303: us explain.
2304: <p>
2305:
1.247 jufi 2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2307: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2308: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2309: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2310: December 6, 2000
2311: </strong></font><br>
2312:
2313: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2314: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2315: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2316: <p>
2317:
1.247 jufi 2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2319: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2320: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2321: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2322: </strong></font><br>
2323:
2324: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2325: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2326: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2327: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2328: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2329: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2330: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2331: <p>
2332:
2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2334: <a
1.226 horacio 2335: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2336: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2337: </strong></font><br>
2338:
2339: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2340: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2341: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2342: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2343: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2344: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2345: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2346: <p>
1.162 millert 2347:
1.247 jufi 2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2349: <a
1.161 louis 2350: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2351: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2352: </strong></font><br>
2353:
2354: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2355: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2356: <p>
2357:
1.247 jufi 2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2359: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2360: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2364: <p>
2365:
2366:
1.247 jufi 2367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2368: <a
1.226 horacio 2369: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2370: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2371: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2375: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2376: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2377: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2378: <p>
1.247 jufi 2379: </ul>
1.169 louis 2380:
1.158 louis 2381: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2382: <ul>
1.147 louis 2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2385: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2386: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2387: </strong></font><br>
2388:
2389: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2390: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2391: <p>
2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2394: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2395: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2396: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2397: </strong></font><br>
2398: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2399: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2400: <p>
2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2403: <a
2404: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2405: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2406: </strong></font><br>
2407:
2408: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2409: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.247 jufi 2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2413: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2414: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2415: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2416:
1.213 horacio 2417: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2418: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2419: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2420: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2421: <p>
1.215 horacio 2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2424: <a
2425: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2426: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
2429: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2430: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2431: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2432: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2433: much of the attitude too).
2434: <p>
1.161 louis 2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2437: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2438: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2439: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2440:
1.157 louis 2441: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2442: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2443: <p>
1.247 jufi 2444: </ul>
1.157 louis 2445:
2446: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2447: <ul>
1.157 louis 2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2450: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2451: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2452: </strong></font><br>
2453:
2454: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2455: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2456: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2457: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2458: <p>
2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2461: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2462: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2463: </strong></font><br>
2464:
2465: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2466: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2467: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2468: it because they love coding...
2469: <p>
2470:
1.247 jufi 2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2472: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2473: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2474: </strong></font><br>
2475:
2476: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2477: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2478: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2479: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2480: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2481: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2482: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2483: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2484: <p>
2485:
1.247 jufi 2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2487: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2488: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2489: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2490: </strong></font><br>
2491:
2492: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2493: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2494: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2495: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2496: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2497: the pizza.
2498: <p>
2499:
1.247 jufi 2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2501: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2502: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2503: </strong></font><br>
2504:
2505: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2506: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2507: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2508: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2509: problems.
2510: <p>
2511:
1.247 jufi 2512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2513: <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 2514: </strong></font><br>
2515:
1.222 miod 2516: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2517: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2518: - whether they like it or not.
2519: <p>
2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2522: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2523: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2524: </strong></font><br>
2525:
2526: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2527: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2528: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2529: <p>
1.148 aaron 2530:
1.247 jufi 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2532: <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 2533: </strong></font><br>
2534:
2535: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2536: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2537: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2538: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2539: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2540: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2541: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2542: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2543: <p>
2544:
1.247 jufi 2545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2546: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2547: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2548: </strong></font><br>
2549:
2550: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2551: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2552: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2553: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2554: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2555: <p>
1.247 jufi 2556: </ul>
1.147 louis 2557:
1.138 louis 2558: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2559: <ul>
1.138 louis 2560:
1.247 jufi 2561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2562: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2563: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2564: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2565: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2566: </strong></font><br>
2567:
1.227 horacio 2568: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2569: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2570: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2571: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2572: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2573: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2574: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2575: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2576: <p>
2577:
1.247 jufi 2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2579: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2580: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2581: </strong></font><br>
2582:
2583: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2584: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2585: groups, and even Linux.
2586: <p>
2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2589: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2590: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2591: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2592: </strong></font><br>
2593:
2594: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2595: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2596: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2597: library after installing the OS.
2598: <p>
2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2601: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2602: Sys Admin, September 2000
2603: </strong></font><br>
2604:
2605: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2606: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2607: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2608: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2609: (<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>,
2610: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2611: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2612: <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 2613: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2614: out of the system.
2615: <p>
2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2618: <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
2619: </strong></font><br>
2620:
2621: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2622: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2623: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2624: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2625: the IP filtering and address translation.
2626: <p>
1.301 jose 2627:
2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2629: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2630: </strong></font><br>
2631:
2632: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2633: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2634: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2635: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2636: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2637: <p>
1.247 jufi 2638: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2639:
1.131 louis 2640: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2641: <ul>
1.131 louis 2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2644: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2645: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2646: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2647: </strong></font><br>
2648:
2649: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2650: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2651: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2652: <p>
2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2655: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2656: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2657: </strong></font><br>
2658:
2659: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2660: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2661: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2662: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2663: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2664: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2665: note of"</i>.
2666: <p>
2667:
1.247 jufi 2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2669: <a
1.247 jufi 2670: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2671: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2672: </strong></font><br>
2673:
2674: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2675: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2676: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2677: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2678: <p>
2679:
1.247 jufi 2680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2681: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2682: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2683: </strong></font><br>
2684:
2685: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2686: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2687: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2688: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2689: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2690: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2691: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2692: <p>
2693:
1.247 jufi 2694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2695: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2696: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2697: 2000
2698: </strong></font><br>
2699:
2700: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2701: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2702: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2703: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2704: against current industry practices.
2705: <p>
2706:
1.247 jufi 2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2708: <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
2709: </strong></font><br>
2710:
2711: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2712: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2713: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2714: <p>
2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2717: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2718: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2719: </strong></font><br>
2720:
2721: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2722: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2723: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2724: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2725: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2726: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2727: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2728: <p>
2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2731: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2732: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2733: </strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2736: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2737: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2738: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2739: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2740: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2741: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2742: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2743: <p>
1.247 jufi 2744: </ul>
1.131 louis 2745:
1.118 louis 2746: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2747: <ul>
1.118 louis 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2750: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2751: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2752: </strong></font><br>
2753:
2754: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2755: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2756: about time. The article mentions that
2757: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2758: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2759: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2760: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2761: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2762: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2763: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2767: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2768: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2769: </strong></font><br>
2770:
2771: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2772: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2773: of OpenSSH.
2774: <p>
2775:
1.247 jufi 2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2777: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2778: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2782: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2783: bridging.
2784: <p>
2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2787: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2788: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2789: </strong></font><br>
2790:
1.121 deraadt 2791: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2792: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2793: <p>
2794:
1.247 jufi 2795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2796: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2797: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2798: </strong></font><br>
2799:
2800: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2801: <p>
2802:
1.247 jufi 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2804: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2805: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2806: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2807: </strong></font><br>
2808:
1.120 deraadt 2809: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2810: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2811: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2812: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2813: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2814: <p>
2815:
1.247 jufi 2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2817: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2818: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2819: </strong></font><br>
2820:
1.222 miod 2821: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2822: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2823: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2824: protocols and their quirks.
2825: <p>
2826:
1.247 jufi 2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2828: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2829: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2830: </strong></font><br>
2831:
2832: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2833: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2834: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2835: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2836: <p>
2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2839: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2840: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2841: </strong></font><br>
2842:
2843: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2844: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2845: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2846: <p>
2847:
1.247 jufi 2848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2849: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2850: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2851: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2852: </strong></font><br>
2853:
2854: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2855: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2856: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2857: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2858: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2859: <p>
1.247 jufi 2860: </ul>
1.118 louis 2861:
1.104 louis 2862: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2863: <ul>
1.104 louis 2864:
1.247 jufi 2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2866: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2867: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2868: </strong></font><br>
2869:
2870: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2871: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2872: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2873: be a bit dry.
2874: <p>
2875:
1.247 jufi 2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2877: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2878: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2879: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2880: </strong></font><br>
2881: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2882: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2883: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2884: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2885: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2886: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2887: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2888: <p>
2889:
1.247 jufi 2890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2891: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2892: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2893: 2000
1.128 louis 2894: </strong></font><br>
2895:
2896: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2897: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2898: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2899: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2900: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2901: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2902: <p>
2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2905: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2906: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2907: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2908:
2909: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2910: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2911: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2912: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2913: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2914: <p>
1.110 louis 2915:
1.247 jufi 2916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2917: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2918: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2919: </strong></font><br>
2920:
2921: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2922: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2923: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2924: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2925: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2926: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2927: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2928: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2929: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2930: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2931: <p>
2932:
1.247 jufi 2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2934: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2935: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2936:
2937: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2938: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2939: <p>
1.108 louis 2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2942: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2943: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2944: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2945:
2946: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2947: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2948: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2949: <p>
1.106 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2952: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2953: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2954: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2955:
2956: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2957: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2958: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2959: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2960: <p>
1.107 louis 2961:
1.247 jufi 2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2963: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2964: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2965: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2966:
2967: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2968: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2969: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2970: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2971: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2972: <p>
1.105 louis 2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2975: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2976: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2977: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2978:
1.113 naddy 2979: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2980: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2981: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2982: <p>
1.104 louis 2983:
1.247 jufi 2984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2985: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2986: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2987: </strong></font><br>
2988:
2989: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2990: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2991: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2992: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2993: <p>
1.301 jose 2994:
2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2996: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2997: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2998: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2999:
3000: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3001: hardware-supported cryptography.
3002: <p>
1.247 jufi 3003: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3004:
1.85 louis 3005: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3006: <ul>
1.85 louis 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3009: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3010: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3011: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3012:
3013: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3014: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3015: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3016: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3017: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3018: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3019: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3020: <p>
1.99 louis 3021:
1.247 jufi 3022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3023: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3024: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3025: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3026:
3027: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3028: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3029: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3030: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3031: <p>
1.100 louis 3032:
1.247 jufi 3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3034: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3035: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3036: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3037:
3038: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3039: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3040: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3041: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3042: <p>
1.95 louis 3043:
1.247 jufi 3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3045: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3046: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3047: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3048:
3049: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3050: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3051: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3052: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3053: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3054: <p>
1.92 louis 3055:
1.247 jufi 3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3057: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3058: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3059: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3060:
3061: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3062: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3063: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3064: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3065: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3066: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3067: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3068: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3069: <p>
1.91 louis 3070:
1.247 jufi 3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3072: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3073: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3074: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3075:
3076: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3077: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3078: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3079: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3080: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3081: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3082: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3083: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3084: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3085: <p>
1.90 louis 3086:
1.247 jufi 3087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3088: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3089: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3090: </strong></font><br>
3091: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3092: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3093: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3094: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3095: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3096: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3097: <p>
3098:
1.247 jufi 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3100: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3101: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3102: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3103:
1.113 naddy 3104: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3105: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3106: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3107: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3108: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3109: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3110: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3111: <p>
1.87 louis 3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3114: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3115: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3116: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3117:
3118: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3119: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3120: <p>
1.85 louis 3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3123: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3124: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3125: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3126:
3127: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3128: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3129: <p>
3130:
3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3132: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3133: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3134: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3135:
3136: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3137: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3138: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3139: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.89 louis 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3143: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3144: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3145: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3146:
3147: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3148: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3149: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3150: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3151: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3152: </ul>
1.85 louis 3153:
1.78 deraadt 3154: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3155: <ul>
1.74 louis 3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3158: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3159: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3160: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3161: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3162:
3163: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3164: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3165: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3166: <p>
1.83 louis 3167:
1.247 jufi 3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3169: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3170: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3171: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3172:
3173: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3174: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3175: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3176: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3177: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3178: <p>
1.93 louis 3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3181: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3182: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3183: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3184: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3185:
1.83 louis 3186: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3187: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3188: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3189: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3190: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3191: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3192: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3193: <p>
1.82 aaron 3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3196: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3197: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3198: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3199:
1.83 louis 3200: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3201: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3202: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3203: <p>
1.80 louis 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3206: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3207: Bad Press</a>,
3208: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3209: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3210:
3211: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3212: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3213: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3214: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3215: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3216: <p>
1.247 jufi 3217: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3218:
3219: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3220: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3223: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3224: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3225: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3226: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3227:
3228: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3229: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3230: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3231: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3232: <p>
1.74 louis 3233:
1.247 jufi 3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3235: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3236: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3237: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3238:
1.219 horacio 3239: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3240: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3241: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3242: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3243: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3244: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3245: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3246: <p>
1.88 louis 3247:
1.247 jufi 3248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3249: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3250: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3251: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3252:
3253: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3254: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3255: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3256: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3257: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3258: <p>
1.81 louis 3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3261: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3262: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3263: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3264:
3265: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3266: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3267: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3268: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3269: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3270: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3271: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3272: <p>
1.90 louis 3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3275: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3276: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3277: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3278:
3279: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3280: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3281: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3282: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3283: <p>
1.247 jufi 3284: </ul>
1.71 louis 3285:
1.69 deraadt 3286: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3287: <ul>
1.70 louis 3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3290: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3291: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3292: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3293:
3294: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3295: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3296: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3297: <p>
1.70 louis 3298:
1.247 jufi 3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3300: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3301: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3302: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3303:
3304: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3305: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3306: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3307: <p>
1.68 louis 3308:
1.247 jufi 3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3310: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3311: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3312: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3313: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3314:
1.111 jufi 3315: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3316: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3317: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3318: "secure by default" installation.
3319: <p>
1.64 louis 3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3322: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3323: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3324: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3325:
1.113 naddy 3326: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3327: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3328: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3329: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3330: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3331: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3332: <p>
1.66 louis 3333:
1.247 jufi 3334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3335: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3336: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3337: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3338:
3339: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3340: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3341: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3342: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3343: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3344: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3345: <p>
1.83 louis 3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3348: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3349: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3350: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3351:
3352: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3353: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3354: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3355: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3356: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3357: <p>
1.64 louis 3358:
1.247 jufi 3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3360: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3361: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3362: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3363:
3364: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3365: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3366: <p>
1.301 jose 3367:
3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3369: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3370: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3371: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3372: </strong></font><br>
3373:
3374: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3375: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3376: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3377: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3378: Giving way to
3379: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3380: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3381: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3382: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3383: <p>
1.247 jufi 3384: </ul>
1.65 louis 3385:
1.69 deraadt 3386: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3387: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3388:
1.247 jufi 3389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3390: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3391: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3392: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3393:
3394: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3395: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3396: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3397: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3398: <p>
1.88 louis 3399:
1.247 jufi 3400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3401: <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 3402: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3403:
3404: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3405: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3406: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3407: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3408: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3409: <p>
1.60 louis 3410:
1.247 jufi 3411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3412: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3413: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3414: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3415: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3416:
3417: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3418: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3419: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3420: <p>
1.58 louis 3421:
1.247 jufi 3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3423: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3424: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3425:
3426: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3427: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3428: <p>
1.53 louis 3429:
1.247 jufi 3430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3431: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3432: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3433: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3434:
3435: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3436: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3437: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3438: <p>
1.99 louis 3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3441: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3442: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3443:
3444: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3445: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3446: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3447: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3448: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3451: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3452: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3453: </strong></font><br>
3454:
3455: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3456: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3457: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3458: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3459: <p>
3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3462: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3463: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3464: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3465:
3466: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3467: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3468: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3469:
1.247 jufi 3470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3471: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3472: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3473:
3474: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3475: in
1.247 jufi 3476: <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 3477: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3478: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3479: <p>
1.53 louis 3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3482: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3483: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3484: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3485: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3486:
1.58 louis 3487: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3488: <p>
1.301 jose 3489:
3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3491: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3492: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3493: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3494: Informacyjny, January 2000
3495: </strong></font><br>
3496:
3497: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3498: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3499: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3500: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3501: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3502: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3503: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3504: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3505: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3506: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3507: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3508: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3509: <p>
3510:
3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3512: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3513: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3514: </strong></font><br>
3515:
3516: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3517: <p>
3518: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3519:
1.69 deraadt 3520: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3521: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3524: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3525: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3526: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3527: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3528:
1.58 louis 3529: Kurt Seifried
3530: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3531: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3532: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3533: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3536: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3537: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3538: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3539:
3540: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3541: <p>
1.96 louis 3542:
1.247 jufi 3543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3544: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3545: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3546: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3547: </strong></font><br>
3548:
3549: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3550: <p>
3551:
3552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3553: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3554: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3555: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3556:
3557: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3558: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3559: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3560: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3561: <p>
1.247 jufi 3562: </ul>
1.86 louis 3563:
1.69 deraadt 3564: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3565: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3566:
1.247 jufi 3567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3568: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3569: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3570: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3571:
3572: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3573: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3574: <p>
1.61 louis 3575:
1.247 jufi 3576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3577: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3578: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3579: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3580: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3581:
3582: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3583: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3584: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3585: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3586: right -- or at least strives to".
3587: <p>
1.48 louis 3588:
1.247 jufi 3589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3590: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3591: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3592: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3593: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3594: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3595: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3596: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3597: <p>
1.61 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <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 3600: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3601: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3602:
3603: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3604: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3605: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3606: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3607: <p>
1.46 louis 3608:
1.247 jufi 3609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3610: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3611: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3612: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3613:
3614: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3615: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3616: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3619: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3620: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3621: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3622:
3623: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3624: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3625: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3626: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3627: <p>
1.247 jufi 3628: </ul>
1.70 louis 3629:
1.69 deraadt 3630: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3631: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3632:
1.247 jufi 3633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3634: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3635: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3636: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3637: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3638:
3639: Kurt Seifried
3640: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3641: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3642: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3643: <p>
1.44 philen 3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <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 3646: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3647: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3648:
3649: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3650: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <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 3653: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3654: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3655:
3656: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3657: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <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 3660: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3661: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3662:
3663: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3664: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3665: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3666: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3667: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3668:
1.247 jufi 3669: <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 3670: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3671: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3672:
1.36 louis 3673: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3674: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3677: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3678: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3679: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3680:
3681: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3682: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3683: </ul>
1.38 louis 3684:
1.69 deraadt 3685: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3686: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <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 3689: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3690: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3691:
3692: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3693: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3694: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3695:
1.113 naddy 3696: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3697: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3698: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3699: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3700:
3701: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3702: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3703: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3704: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3705: <blockquote>
3706: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3707: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3708: <br>
3709: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3710: </code>
3711: </blockquote>
3712: <p>
3713:
1.247 jufi 3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3715: <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 3716: <p>
3717:
3718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3719: <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 3720: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3721:
3722: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3723: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3724: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3725: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3726:
1.247 jufi 3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3728: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3729: Sept. 28, 1999
3730: </strong></font><br>
3731:
3732: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3733: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3734: translating and reprinting articles from
3735: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3736: <p>
3737:
3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3739: <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 3740: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3741:
3742: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3743: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3744: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3745: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3746: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3747: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3748: <p>
1.19 louis 3749:
1.113 naddy 3750: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3751: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3752: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3753:
3754: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3755: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3756: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3757: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3758: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3759: <p>
1.16 louis 3760:
1.247 jufi 3761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3762: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3763: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3764: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3765:
1.57 louis 3766: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3767: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3768: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3769: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3770:
1.247 jufi 3771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3772: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3773: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3774: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3775:
1.113 naddy 3776: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3777:
1.247 jufi 3778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3779: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3780: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3781: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3782:
1.23 louis 3783: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3784: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3785: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3786: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3787: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3788: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3789:
1.247 jufi 3790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3791: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3792: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3793: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3794:
1.199 pvalchev 3795: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3796: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3797: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3798: installation.
1.113 naddy 3799: <p>
1.47 louis 3800:
1.247 jufi 3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3802: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3803: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3804: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3805:
1.301 jose 3806: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3807: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3808: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3809: </ul>
1.57 louis 3810:
1.69 deraadt 3811: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3812: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3815: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3816: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3817: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3818:
3819: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3820: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3821: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3822: <p>
1.12 louis 3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3825: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3826: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3827: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3828:
3829: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3830: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3831: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3832: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3833: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3834: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3835: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3836: <p>
1.247 jufi 3837: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3838:
1.69 deraadt 3839: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3840: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3843: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3844: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3845:
3846: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3847: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3848: available."
1.113 naddy 3849: <p>
1.301 jose 3850:
3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3852: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3853: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3854: </strong></font><br>
3855:
3856: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3857: <p>
1.247 jufi 3858: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3859:
1.69 deraadt 3860: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3861: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3862:
1.247 jufi 3863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3864: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3865: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3866:
3867: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3868: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3869: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3870: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3871: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3872: <p>
1.33 louis 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3875: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3876: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3877: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3878:
1.113 naddy 3879: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3880: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3881: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3882: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3883: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3884: <p>
1.247 jufi 3885: </ul>
1.57 louis 3886:
1.69 deraadt 3887: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3888: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3889:
1.247 jufi 3890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3891: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3892: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3893: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3894:
3895: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3896: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3897: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3900: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3901: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3902: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3903: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3904:
3905: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3906: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3909: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3910:
1.113 naddy 3911: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3914: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3915: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3916: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3917:
3918: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3919: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3920: </ul>
1.23 louis 3921:
1.69 deraadt 3922: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3923: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3924:
1.247 jufi 3925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3926: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3927: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3928:
3929: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3930: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3931: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3934: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3935: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3936: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3937:
3938: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3939: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3940: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3941: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3942: </ul>
1.57 louis 3943:
1.69 deraadt 3944: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3945: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3948: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3949: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3950: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3951:
3952: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3953: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3954: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3955: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3956: <p>
1.15 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3959: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3960: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3961: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3962:
3963: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3964: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3965: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3966: columns."
1.113 naddy 3967: <p>
1.247 jufi 3968: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3969:
1.69 deraadt 3970: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3971: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3972:
1.247 jufi 3973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3974: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3975: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3976: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3977:
3978: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3979: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3980:
1.113 naddy 3981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3982: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3983: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3984:
3985: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3986: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3987: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3988: </ul>
1.57 louis 3989:
1.69 deraadt 3990: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3991: <ul>
1.301 jose 3992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3993: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3994: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3995: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3996:
3997: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3998: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3999: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4000: <p>
4001:
4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4003: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4004: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4005: Nov 13, 1998 and
4006: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4007: Datateknik</a>,
4008: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4009:
1.380 saad 4010: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4011: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4012: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4013: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4014: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4015:
1.113 naddy 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4017: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4018: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4019: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4020:
1.222 miod 4021: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4022: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4023: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4024: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4025: <p>
1.247 jufi 4026: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4027:
1.69 deraadt 4028: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4029: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4032: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4033: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4034:
1.69 deraadt 4035: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4036: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4037: <p>
1.247 jufi 4038: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4039:
1.69 deraadt 4040: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4041: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4042:
1.247 jufi 4043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4044: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4045: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4046: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4047:
1.383 jcs 4048: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4049: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4050: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4053: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4054: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4055: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4056: <p>
1.247 jufi 4057: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4058:
1.69 deraadt 4059: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4060: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4061:
1.247 jufi 4062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4063: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4064: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4065: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4066: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4067: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4068:
4069: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4070: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4071: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4072: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4073: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4074: <p>
1.247 jufi 4075: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4076:
4077: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4078: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4079:
1.247 jufi 4080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4081: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4082: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4083:
1.69 deraadt 4084: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4085: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4086: <p>
1.112 naddy 4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4089: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4090:
1.292 camield 4091: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4092: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4093: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.393 ! david 4094: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.392 2004/05/19 05:05:53 david Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4095:
4096: </body>
4097: </html>
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