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1.396 ! henning 19: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
! 23: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
! 24: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
! 25: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
! 26: <p>
! 27: </ul>
! 28:
1.393 david 29: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
30: <ul>
31: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 32: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
33: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
34: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
35: </strong></font><br>
36: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
37: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
38: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
39: on inserting large number of SQL records.
40: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
41: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
42: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
43: <p>
44:
45: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 46: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
47: Secure by Default</a>,
48: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
49: </strong></font><br>
50: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
51: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
52: <p>
53:
54: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
55: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
56: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
57: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
58: </strong></font><br>
59: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
60: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
61: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
62: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
63: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
64: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
68: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
69: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
70: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
71: </strong></font><br>
72: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
73: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
74: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
78: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
79: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
80: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
81: </strong></font><br>
82: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
83: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
84: <p>
85: </ul>
86:
1.388 mcbride 87: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
88: <ul>
1.394 jolan 89:
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
91: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
92: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
93: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
94: </strong></font><br>
95: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
96: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
97: available for sparc64.
98: <p>
99:
1.390 beck 100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 101: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
102: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
103: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
104: </strong></font><br>
105: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
106: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
107: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
108: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 112: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
113: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 114: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 115: </strong></font><br>
116: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
117: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
118: it does: CARP provides sharing
119: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
120: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
121: detail to get you started using it.
122: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
123: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
124: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
125: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
126: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
127: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
128: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 129: <p>
1.391 ian 130:
131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 132: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 133: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
134: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 135: </strong></font><br>
136: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 137: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 138: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 139: <p>
1.388 mcbride 140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
142: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
143: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 144: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 145: </strong></font><br>
146: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
147: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
148: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
149: unencumbered by patents.
150: <p>
151: </ul>
152:
1.378 henning 153: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
154: <ul>
1.384 jose 155:
156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 157: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
158: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
159: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
160: </strong></font><br>
161: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
162: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
163: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
164: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
165: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
166: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
167: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
168: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
169: in the page tables."
170: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 174: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
175: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
176: </strong></font><br>
177: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
178: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
179: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
180: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 181: <p>
1.384 jose 182:
1.378 henning 183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 184: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
185: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 186: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
187: </strong></font><br>
188: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
189: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
190: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
191: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
192: (quote:
193: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
194: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 195: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 196: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
197: the other developers for their work on the system.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 201: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
202: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
203: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 204: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 205: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
206: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
207: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
208: too.
209: <p>
210:
211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 212: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
213: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 214: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 215: OpenBSD source code using
216: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
217: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
218: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
219: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
220: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
221: <p>
222: </ul>
223:
1.374 jose 224: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
225: <ul>
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 227: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 228: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
229: </strong></font><br>
230: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
231: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
232: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
233: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
234: it."
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 238: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
239: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
240: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
241: </strong></font><br/>
242: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
243: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
244: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
245: <p>
246: </ul>
247:
1.369 ian 248: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
249: <ul>
250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 251: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
252: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
253: </strong></font><br/>
254: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
255: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
256: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
257: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
258: <p>
259:
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 261: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
262: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
263: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
264: </strong></font><br/>
265: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
266: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
267: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
268: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
269: form factor.
270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
273: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
274: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
275: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
276: Features</a>,
277: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
278: </strong></font><br/>
279: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
280: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
281: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
282: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
283: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
284: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
285: <p>
286: This article can also be found online at:
287: <ul>
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 289: <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 290: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
291: </strong></font>
292: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
293: </ul>
294: <p>
1.392 david 295:
1.371 jose 296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 297: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
298: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 299: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
300: </strong></font><br/>
301: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
302: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
303: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 304: <p>
1.371 jose 305:
306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 307: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 308: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 309: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 310: </strong></font><br/>
311: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
312: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
313: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
314: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
315: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
316: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
317: and its history with OpenBSD.
318: </ul>
319:
1.368 henning 320: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
321: <ul>
322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 323: [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 324: </strong></font><br>
325: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
326: </ul>
327:
1.364 jose 328: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
329: <ul>
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 331: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
332: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
333: UNIX Review,
334: July, 2003.
335: </strong></font><br>
336: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
337: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
338: who want more information.
339: <p>
340:
341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 342: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
343: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
344: Government Computer News,
345: July 22, 2003.
346: </strong></font><br>
347: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
348: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
349: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
350: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
354: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
355: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
356: SANS Institute,
357: July 22, 2003.
358: </strong></font><br>
359: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 360: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 361: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
362: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
363: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
364: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
365: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
366: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
367: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
368: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
369: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 373: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
374: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
375: OnLamp.com,
376: July 17, 2003.
377: </strong></font><br>
378: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
379: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
380: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
381: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
382: have been working on.
383:
384: </ul>
385:
1.356 jose 386: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 387: <ul>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 390: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
391: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
392: UNIX Review,
393: June, 2003.
394: </strong></font><br>
395: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
396: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
397: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
398: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 402: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
403: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
404: eWeek,
405: June 23, 2003.
406: </strong></font><br>
407: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
408: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
409: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
410: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
411: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
412: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 416: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
417: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
418: Software Development Online,
419: June, 2003.
420: </strong></font><br>
421: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
422: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
423: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
424: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
425: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
426: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
427: current activities.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 431: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
432: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 433: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
434: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
435: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
436: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
437: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
438: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
439: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
440: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 441: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 442: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
443: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
444: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
445: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
446: decisions.
447: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
448: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
449: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
450: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 451: <p>
452:
453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 454: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
455: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
456: Page 58, eWeek,
457: June 2, 2003.
458: </strong></font><br>
459: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
460: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
461: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
462: been addressed in -current.
463: <p>
464:
1.356 jose 465: </ul>
466:
467: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
468: <ul>
469:
1.355 jose 470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 471: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
472: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
473: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
474: </strong></font><br>
475: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
476: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
477: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
478: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
479: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
480: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
481: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 485: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
486: Beyond Linux</a>,
487: InfoWorld,
488: May 23, 2003.
489: </strong></font><br>
490: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
491: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
492: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
493: compared to the GPL.
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 497: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
498: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
499: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 500: May 17, 2003.
501: </strong></font><br>
502: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
503: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
504: the business section and half of another page inside
505: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
506: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
507: in talking about the project's history and goals.
508: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
509: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
510: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
511: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 512: <br>
513: This article can also be found online at:
514: <ul>
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
516: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
517: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
518: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
519: May 17, 2003
520: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 521: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
523: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
524: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
525: Montreal Gazette,
526: May 21, 2003
527: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 528: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 529: <p>
1.346 ian 530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 532: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 533: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 534: May 7, 2003.
535: </strong></font><br>
536: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
537: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
538: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 542: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
543: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
544: OsOpinion,
545: May 6, 2003.
546: </strong></font><br>
547: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
548: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
549: <br>
550: This article can also be found online at:
551: <ul>
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
553: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
554: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
555: NewsFactor Network.
556: </strong></font>
557: </ul>
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 561: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 562: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
563: ITBusiness,
564: May 2, 2003.
565: </strong></font><br>
566: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
567: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
568: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
569: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
570: <p>
571:
572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 573: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
574: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
575: InfoWorld,
576: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 577: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 578: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
579: <br>
580: This article can also be found online at:
581: <ul>
582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
583: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
584: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
585: IDG Singapore.
586: </strong></font>
587: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 588: <p>
589:
1.339 jose 590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
591: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
592: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 593: ZDNet,
594: May 1, 2003.
595: </strong></font><br>
596: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 597: someone using parts from previous articles.
598: <br>
1.341 deraadt 599: This article can also be found online at:
600: <ul>
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
602: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
603: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
604: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 605: </strong></font>
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
607: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
608: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
609: CNET News.com.
610: </strong></font>
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
612: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
613: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
614: ZDNet UK.
615: </strong></font>
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
617: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
618: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
619: Help Net Security, Croatia.
620: </strong></font>
621: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 622: <p>
1.339 jose 623:
1.341 deraadt 624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 625: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 626: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
627: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
628: May 1, 2003.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
631: that have been added
632: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
633: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
634: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 635: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 636: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
637: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
638: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 639: <p>
640:
641: </ul>
642:
1.253 ian 643: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
644: <ul>
1.255 ian 645:
1.260 ian 646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 647: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 648: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
649: TechRepublic,
650: April 28, 2003.
651: </strong></font><br>
652: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
653: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 654: work.<br>
655: Can also be found online at:
656: <ul>
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
658: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
659: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
660: ZDNet UK.
661: </strong></font>
662: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 663: <p>
664:
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 666: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
667: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
668: IDG,
669: April 24, 2003.
670: </strong></font><br>
671: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
672: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
673: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
674: Can also be found online at:
675: <ul>
676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
677: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
678: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 679: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 680: </strong></font>
681: </ul>
682: <p>
683:
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
685: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 686: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 687: Slate,
688: April 24, 2003.
689: </strong></font><br>
690: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
691: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
692: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
693: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
694: <p>
695:
696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 697: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
698: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
699: April 24, 2003.
700: </strong></font><br>
701: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
702: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
703: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
704: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
705: <p>
706:
707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 708: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
709: April 24, 2003.
710: </strong></font><br>
711: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
712: the free software community".
713: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
714: other articles.
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 718: <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 719: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
720: </strong></font><br>
721: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
722: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
723: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
724: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
725: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
726: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
727: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
728: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
729: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
730: <br/>
731: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
732: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
733: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
734: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 735: <br>
736: Can also be found online at:
737: <ul>
738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
739: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
740: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
741: Common Dreams NewsCenter
742: </strong></font>
743: </ul>
1.324 ian 744: <p>
745:
746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
747: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
748: Wired, April 24, 2003.
749: </strong></font><br>
750: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
751: article above.
752: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
753: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
754: wasting them."
1.332 ian 755: <br>
756: Can also be found online at:
757: <ul>
758: <li>
759: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
760: </strong></font>
761: </ul>
1.324 ian 762: <p>
763:
764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 765: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
766: </strong></font><br>
767: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
768: <p>
769:
770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 771: <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.
772: </strong></font><br>
773: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
774: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 778: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
779: April 23, 2003.
780: </strong></font><br>
781: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
782: <p>
783:
784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 785: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 786: April 22, 2003.
787: </strong></font><br>
788: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
789: <p>
790:
791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 792: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
793: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
794: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 795: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 796: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
797: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
798: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
799: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
800: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
801: Can also be found online at:
802: <ul>
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
804: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 805: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
806: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 807: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
809: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 810: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
811: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 812: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 813: </ul>
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 817: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
818: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 819: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 820: </strong></font><br>
821: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 822: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
823: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
824: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
825: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
826: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
827: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 828: <p>
829:
830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 831: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
832: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 833: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
834: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 835: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
836: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
837: at UPenn and DARPA.
838: <p>
839:
840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 841: [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,
842: France
1.315 deraadt 843: April 18, 2003.
844: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 845: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 846: <p>
847:
848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 849: [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 850: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 851: </strong></font><br>
852: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
853: <p>
854:
855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 856: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
857: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
858: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 859: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 860: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
861: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
862: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 866: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
867: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 868: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 869: </strong></font><br>
870: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
871: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
872: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 873: American century.
1.267 deraadt 874: <p>
875:
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 877: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
878: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 879: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 880: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 881: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
882: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
883: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
884: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
885: Can also be found online at:
886: <ul>
887: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
888: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 889: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 890: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 891: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 892: <p>
893:
894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 895: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 896: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 897: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 898: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 899: </strong></font><br>
900: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 901: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
902: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
903: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
904: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 905:
906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
907: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
908: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
909: New York Times.
910: </strong></font>(free registration required)
911:
1.273 deraadt 912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
913: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 914: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 915: ABC News.
916: </strong></font>
917:
918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 919: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 920: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 921: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 922: </strong></font>
923:
924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 925: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 926: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 927: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 928: </strong></font>
929:
930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 931: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
932: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 933: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 934: </strong></font>
935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 937: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 938: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 939: Times Daily, AL.
940: </strong></font>
941:
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
943: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
944: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
945: Boston.com, MA.
946: </strong></font>
947:
948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 949: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 950: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 951: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
952: </strong></font>
953:
954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 955: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
956: [Article was pulled]</a>
957: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 958: </strong></font>
959:
960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
961: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
962: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
963: Infoshop News.
964: </strong></font>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
967: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
968: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
969: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
970: </strong></font>
971:
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 973: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
974: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
975: Raleigh News, NC.
976: </strong></font>
977:
978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 979: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 980: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
981: Napa News, CA.
982: </strong></font>
983:
984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 985: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 986: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
987: NEPA News, PA.
988: </strong></font>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
991: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
992: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
993: Wired News.
994: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 995: <br>
996: <li>
1.333 deraadt 997: <font color="#009000"><strong>
998: [JAPANESE]
999: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1000: Wired News Japan</a>
1001: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1002:
1.271 deraadt 1003: </ul>
1004: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1005: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1006: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1007: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1008: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1009: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1010: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1011: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1012: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1013: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1014: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1015: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1016: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1017: <p>
1018: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1021: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1022: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1023: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1024: </strong></font>
1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1027: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1028: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1029: Miami Herald, FL.
1030: </strong></font>
1031:
1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1033: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1034: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1035: </strong></font>
1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1038: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1039: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1040: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1041: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1042:
1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1044: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1045: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1046: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1047: ABC News.
1048: </strong></font>
1049:
1.276 deraadt 1050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1051: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1052: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1053: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1054: </strong></font>
1055:
1.286 dhartmei 1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1057: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1058: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1059: Wilmington Star, NC.
1060: </strong></font>
1061:
1.300 jose 1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1063: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1064: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1065: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1066: </strong></font>
1067:
1.309 jose 1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1069: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1070: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1071: Globe Technology.
1072: </strong></font>
1073:
1.263 deraadt 1074: </ul>
1.262 beck 1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1078: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1079: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1080: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1081: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1082: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1083: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1084: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1088: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1089: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1090: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1091: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1092: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1093: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1094: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1095: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1096: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1097: and simply restates other press reports.
1098: <p>
1099:
1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1101: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1102: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1103: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1104: </strong></font><br>
1105: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1109: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1110: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1111: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1114: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1115: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1119: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1120: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1121: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1122: April 17, 2003.
1123: </strong></font><br>
1124: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1125: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1126: Tech Anthems</a>
1127: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1128: 4 so far.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1132: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1133: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1134: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1135: </strong></font><br>
1136: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1137: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1138: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1139: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1140: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1141: Goes on to say:
1142: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1143: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1144: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1145: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1146: This article is also found online at:
1147: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1149: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1150: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1151: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1152: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1154: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1155: ZDnet</a>,
1156: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1157: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1159: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1160: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1161: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1162: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1163: </ul>
1.260 ian 1164: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1165:
1.260 ian 1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1167: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1168: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1169: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1170: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1171: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1172: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1173: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1174: without notice or justification.
1175: <p>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1178: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1179: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1180: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1181: </strong></font><br>
1182: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1183: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1184: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1185: effective today, without any warning..."
1186: <p>
1.257 ian 1187:
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1189: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1190: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1191: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1192: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1193: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1194: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1195: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1196: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1197: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1198: <p>
1199:
1200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1201: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1202: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1203: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1204: </strong></font><br>
1205: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1206: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1207: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1208: quoting two of them:
1209: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1210: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1211: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1212: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1213: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1214: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1215: <p>
1216:
1.255 ian 1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1218: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1219: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1220: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1221: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1222: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1226: [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 1227: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1228: </strong></font><br>
1229: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1230: <p>
1231:
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1233: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1234: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1235: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1236: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1237: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1238: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1239: security experts for more than three decades."
1240: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1241: <p>
1.261 ian 1242:
1.254 drahn 1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1244: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1245: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1246: </strong></font><br>
1247: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1251: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1252: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1253: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1254: </strong></font><br>
1255: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1256: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1257: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1258: <p>
1259:
1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1261: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1262: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1263: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1264: </strong></font><br>
1265: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1266: from US DARPA.
1267: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1268: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1269: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1270: the BSD license.
1271: <p>
1272: </ul>
1273:
1.251 ian 1274: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1275: <ul>
1276:
1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1278: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1279: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1280: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1281: </strong></font><br>
1282:
1283: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1284: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1285: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1286: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1287: <p>
1288:
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1290: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1291: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1292: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1293: </strong></font><br>
1294: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1295: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1296: Mentions
1297: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1298: and
1299: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1300: programs.
1301: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1302: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1303: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1304: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1305: <p>
1.325 ian 1306: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1307: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1308:
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1310: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1311: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1312: </strong></font><br>
1313: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1314: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1315: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1316: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1317: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1318: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1319: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1320: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1321: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1322: put into service."
1323: <p>
1324: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1325: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1326: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1327: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1328: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1329: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1330: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1331: computers with security features."
1332: <p>
1.329 ian 1333:
1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1335: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1336: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1337: Slate,
1338: March 3, 2003.
1339: </strong></font><br>
1340: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1341: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1342: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1343: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1344: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1345: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1346: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1347: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1348: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1349: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1350: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1351: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1352: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1353: of more secure open-source solutions like
1354: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1355: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1356: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1357: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1358: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1359: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1360: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1361: the Beltway."
1362: <p>
1.251 ian 1363: </ul>
1364:
1.249 jufi 1365: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1366: <ul>
1367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1368: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1369: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1370: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1371: </strong></font><br>
1372: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1373: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1374: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1375: <p>
1.334 ian 1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1378: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1379: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1380: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1381: </strong></font><br>
1382: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1383: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1384: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1385: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1386: "... the hypothetical question ...
1387: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1388: <br>
1389: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1390: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1391: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1392: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1393: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1394: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1395: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1396: support network security.
1397: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1398: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1399: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1400: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1401: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1402: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1403: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1404: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1405: <br>
1406: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1407: <p>
1408:
1.249 jufi 1409: </ul>
1410:
1.246 jufi 1411: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1412: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1413:
1.247 jufi 1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1415: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1416: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1417: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1418: </strong></font><br>
1419: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1420: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1421: <p>
1422:
1.247 jufi 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1424: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1425: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1426: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1427: </strong></font><br>
1428: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1429: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1433: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1434: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1435: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1436: </strong></font><br>
1437: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1438: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1439: <p>
1.247 jufi 1440: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1441:
1.244 jufi 1442: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1443: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1446: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1447: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1448: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1449: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1450: </strong></font><br>
1451: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1452: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1453: md5 digests.
1454: <p>
1455:
1.247 jufi 1456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1457: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1458: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1459: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1460: </strong></font><br>
1461: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1462: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1463: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1464: right the first time."
1465: <p>
1.247 jufi 1466: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1467:
1468:
1469: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1470: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1471:
1.247 jufi 1472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1473: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1474: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1475: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1476: </strong></font><br>
1477: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1478: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1479: part 6</a>.
1480: <p>
1481:
1.247 jufi 1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1483: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1484: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1485: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1486: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1487: </strong></font><br>
1488: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1489: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1490: <p>
1.301 jose 1491:
1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1493: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1494: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1495: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1496: </strong></font><br>
1497:
1498: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1499: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1500: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1501: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1502: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1503: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1504: <i>Here's the
1505: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1506: <p>
1.247 jufi 1507: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1508:
1509: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1510: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1511:
1.247 jufi 1512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1513: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1514: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1515: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1516: </strong></font><br>
1517: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1519: <p>
1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1522: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1523: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1524: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1525: </strong></font><br>
1526: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1527: this time using pf.
1528: <p>
1.247 jufi 1529: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1530:
1531: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1532: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1533:
1.247 jufi 1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1536: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1537: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1538: </strong></font><br>
1539: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1540: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1541: their rotation.
1542: <p>
1543:
1.247 jufi 1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1545: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1546: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1547: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1548: </strong></font><br>
1549: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1550: <p>
1.247 jufi 1551: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1552:
1.239 jufi 1553: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1554: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1555:
1.247 jufi 1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1557: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1558: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1559: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1560: </strong></font><br>
1561: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1562: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1563: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1564: <p>
1565:
1.247 jufi 1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1567: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1568: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1569: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1570: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1571: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1572: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1573: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1574: <p>
1.247 jufi 1575: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1576:
1.235 lebel 1577: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1578: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1579:
1.239 jufi 1580:
1.247 jufi 1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1582: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1583: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1584: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1585: </strong></font><br>
1586: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1587: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1588: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1589: <p>
1.301 jose 1590:
1.247 jufi 1591: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1592:
1.228 horacio 1593: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1594: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1595:
1.247 jufi 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1597: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1598: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1599: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1600: </strong></font><br>
1601: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1602: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1603: <p>
1604:
1.247 jufi 1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1606: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1607: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1608: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1611: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1612: <p>
1613:
1.247 jufi 1614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1615: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1616: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1617: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1618: </strong></font><br>
1619: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1620: on the desktop of his parents.
1621: <p>
1622:
1.247 jufi 1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1624: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1625: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1626: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1627: </strong></font><br>
1628: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1629: using IPFilter.
1630:
1631: <p>
1632:
1.247 jufi 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1634: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1635: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1636: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1637: </strong></font><br>
1638: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1639: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1640: perspectives of the four OS.
1641: <br>
1642: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1643: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1644: <p>
1645:
1.247 jufi 1646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1647: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1648: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1649: software and security</a>,
1650: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1651: </strong></font><br>
1652:
1653: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1654: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1655: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1656: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1657: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1658: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1659: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1660: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1661: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1662: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1663: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1664: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1665: <p>
1.247 jufi 1666: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1667:
1.225 horacio 1668: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1669: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1672: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1673: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1674: Interview</a>,
1675: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1676: </strong></font><br>
1677:
1678: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1679: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1680: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1681: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1682: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1683: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1684: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1685: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1686: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1687: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1688: of choice.
1689: <p>
1.247 jufi 1690: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1691:
1692: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1693: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1694:
1.247 jufi 1695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1696: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1697: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1698: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1699: </strong></font><br>
1700:
1701: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1702: <p>
1703:
1.247 jufi 1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1705: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1706: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1707: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1708: </strong></font><br>
1709:
1710: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1711: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1712: <p>
1.247 jufi 1713: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1714:
1.218 horacio 1715: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1716: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1717:
1.247 jufi 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1719: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1720: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1721: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1722: </strong></font><br>
1723:
1724: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1725: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1726: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1727: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1728: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1729: subjects. Worth a read.
1730: <p>
1731:
1732:
1.247 jufi 1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1734: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1735: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1736: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1737: </strong></font><br>
1738:
1739: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1740: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1741: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1742: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1743: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1744: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1745: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1746: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1747: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1748: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1749: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1750: on other operating systems.<br>
1751: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1752: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1753: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1754: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1755: <p>
1756:
1.247 jufi 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1758: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1759: Operating System 2010</a>,
1760: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1761: </strong></font><br>
1762:
1763: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1764: covering the level of software integration into the core
1765: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1766: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1767: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1768: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1769: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1770: <p>
1771:
1.247 jufi 1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1773: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1774: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1775: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1776: </strong></font><br>
1777:
1778: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1779: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1780: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1781: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1782: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1783: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1784: <p>
1.247 jufi 1785: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1786:
1.210 jufi 1787: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1788: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1789:
1.247 jufi 1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1791: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1792: Already a Contender</a>,
1793: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1794: </strong></font><br>
1795:
1796: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1797: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1798: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1799: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1800: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1801: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1802: <p>
1803:
1.247 jufi 1804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1805: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1806: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1807: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1808: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1809:
1.224 horacio 1810: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1811: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1812: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1813: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1814: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1815: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1816: <p>
1.247 jufi 1817: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1818:
1819: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1820: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1821:
1.247 jufi 1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1823: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1824: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1825: Division</a>,
1826: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1827: </strong></font><br>
1828:
1829: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1830: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1831: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1832: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1833: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1834: investment</em>.<br>
1835: The implementation details can be seen on their
1836: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1837: <p>
1838:
1.247 jufi 1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1840: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1841: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1842: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1843: </strong></font><br>
1844:
1845: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1846: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1847: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1848: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1849: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1850: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1851: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1852: <p>
1853:
1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1855: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1856: Thinking about Security</a>,
1857: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1861: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1862: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1863: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1864: to time.<br>
1865: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1866: system and just the most secure system.
1867: <p>
1868:
1.247 jufi 1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1870: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1871: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1872: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1873: </strong></font><br>
1874:
1875: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1876: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1877: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1878: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1879: choice:<br>
1880: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1881: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1882: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1883: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1884: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1885: network security devices and as such must be well
1886: armored."</em><br>
1887: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1888: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1889: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1890: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1891: <br>
1892: Bravo!
1893: <p>
1.247 jufi 1894: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1895:
1.207 ian 1896: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1897: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1898:
1.247 jufi 1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1900: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1901: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1902: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1903:
1.207 ian 1904: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1905: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1906: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1907: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1908: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1909: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1910: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1911: <p>
1.247 jufi 1912: </ul>
1.207 ian 1913:
1.194 jufi 1914: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1915: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1918: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1919: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1920: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1921: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1922:
1.240 miod 1923: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1924: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1925: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1926: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1927: <p>
1928:
1.247 jufi 1929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1930: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1931: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1932: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1933:
1934: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1935: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1936: <p>
1937:
1938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1939: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1940: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1941: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1942:
1943: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1947: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1948: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1949: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1950: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1951:
1.240 miod 1952: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1953: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1954: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1955: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1956: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1957: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1958: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1959: <br>
1960: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1961: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1962: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1963: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1964: <p>
1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1967: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1968: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1969: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1970: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1971:
1.194 jufi 1972: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1973: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1974: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1975: <br>
1976: The new
1977: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1978: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1979: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1980: <p>
1.247 jufi 1981: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1982:
1.190 horacio 1983: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1984: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1985:
1.247 jufi 1986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1987:
1988: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1989: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1990:
1.301 jose 1991:
1.191 jufi 1992: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1993: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1994:
1995: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1996: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1997:
1.212 horacio 1998: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1999: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2000: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2001:
1.211 horacio 2002: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2003: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2004: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2005:
1.247 jufi 2006: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2007: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2010: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2011:
1.212 horacio 2012: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2013: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2014: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2015:
2016: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2017: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2018:
2019: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2020: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2021:
1.301 jose 2022: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2023: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2024:
1.191 jufi 2025: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2026: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2027:
2028: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2029: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2030:
1.192 jufi 2031: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2032: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2033: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2034:
1.193 deraadt 2035: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2036: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2037: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2038:
1.247 jufi 2039: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2040: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2043: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2044: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2045:
1.213 horacio 2046: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2047: 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 2048: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2049:
1.190 horacio 2050: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2051: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2052: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2053: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2054: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2055: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2056: <p>
1.190 horacio 2057:
1.247 jufi 2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2059: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2060: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2061: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2062: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2063:
1.195 jufi 2064: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2065: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2066: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2067: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2068: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2069: <p>
2070:
1.247 jufi 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2072: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2073: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2074: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2075: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2076:
1.191 jufi 2077: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2078: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2079: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2080: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2081: <p>
2082:
2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2084: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2085: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2086: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2089: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2090: <p>
1.247 jufi 2091: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2092:
1.191 jufi 2093:
1.186 jufi 2094: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2095: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2096:
1.247 jufi 2097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2098: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2099: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2100: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2101: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2102:
1.188 jufi 2103: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2104: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2105: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2106: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2107: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2108: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2109: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2110: <p>
2111:
1.301 jose 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2113: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2114: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2115: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2116:
2117: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2118: <p>
1.191 jufi 2119:
1.247 jufi 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2121: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2122: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2123: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2124: </strong></font><br>
2125:
2126: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2127: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2128: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2129: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2130: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2131: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2132: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2133: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2134: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2135: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2136: familiar?
2137: <p>
1.247 jufi 2138: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2139:
1.178 louis 2140: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2141: <ul>
1.178 louis 2142:
1.247 jufi 2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2144: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2145: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2146: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2147: </strong></font><br>
2148:
2149: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2150: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2151: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2152: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2153: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2154: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2155: <p>
2156:
1.247 jufi 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2158: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2159: Open source under the hood</a>,
2160: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2161: </strong></font><br>
2162:
2163: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2164: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2165: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2166: <p>
2167:
1.247 jufi 2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2169: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2170: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2171: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2172: </strong></font><br>
2173:
2174: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2175: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2176: <p>
1.247 jufi 2177: </ul>
1.179 louis 2178:
1.174 louis 2179:
1.175 louis 2180: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2181: <ul>
1.175 louis 2182:
1.247 jufi 2183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2184: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2185: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2186: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2187: </strong></font><br>
2188:
2189: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2190: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2191: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2192: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2193: <p>
2194:
1.247 jufi 2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2196: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2197: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2198: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2199: </strong></font><br>
2200:
2201: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2202: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2203: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2204: <p>
1.247 jufi 2205: </ul>
1.175 louis 2206:
1.176 louis 2207:
1.172 mickey 2208: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2209: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2212: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2213: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2214: </strong></font><br>
2215:
2216: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2217: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2218: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2219: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2220: <p>
2221:
1.247 jufi 2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2223: <a
1.269 deraadt 2224: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2225: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2226: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2227: </strong></font><br>
2228:
2229: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2230: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2231: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2232: <p>
2233:
1.247 jufi 2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2235: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2236: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2237: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2238: </strong></font><br>
2239:
2240: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2241: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2242: <p>
2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2245: <a
1.269 deraadt 2246: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2247: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2248: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2249: </strong></font><br>
2250:
2251: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2252: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2253: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2254: our own Theo de Raadt.
2255: <p>
2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2258: <a
1.269 deraadt 2259: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2260: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2261: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2262: </strong></font><br>
2263:
2264: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2265: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2266: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2267: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2268: shut down.]
2269: <p>
2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2272: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2273: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2274: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2275: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2276: </strong></font><br>
2277:
2278: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2279: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2280: <p>
1.247 jufi 2281: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2282:
1.161 louis 2283: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2284: <ul>
1.161 louis 2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2287: <a
1.269 deraadt 2288: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2289: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2290: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2291: </strong></font><br>
2292:
2293: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2294: by John Wolley
2295: <p>
2296:
1.247 jufi 2297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2298: <a
1.269 deraadt 2299: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2300: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2301: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2302: </strong></font><br>
2303:
2304: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2305: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2306: OpenBSD).
2307: <p>
2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2310: <a
1.247 jufi 2311: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2312: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2313: </strong></font><br>
2314:
2315: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2316: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2317: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2318: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2319: and hindsight.
2320: <p>
2321:
1.247 jufi 2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2323: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2324: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2325: </strong></font><br>
2326:
2327: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2328: <p>
2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2331: <a
1.168 provos 2332: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2333: December 7, 2000
2334: </strong></font><br>
2335:
2336: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2337: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2338: us explain.
2339: <p>
2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2342: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2343: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2344: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2345: December 6, 2000
2346: </strong></font><br>
2347:
2348: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2349: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2350: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2351: <p>
2352:
1.247 jufi 2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2354: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2355: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2356: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2360: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2361: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2362: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2363: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2364: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2365: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2366: <p>
2367:
2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2369: <a
1.226 horacio 2370: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2371: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2375: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2376: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2377: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2378: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2379: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2380: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2381: <p>
1.162 millert 2382:
1.247 jufi 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2384: <a
1.161 louis 2385: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2386: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2387: </strong></font><br>
2388:
2389: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2390: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2391: <p>
2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2394: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2395: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2396: </strong></font><br>
2397:
2398: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2399: <p>
2400:
2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2403: <a
1.226 horacio 2404: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2405: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2406: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2407: </strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2410: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2411: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2412: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2413: <p>
1.247 jufi 2414: </ul>
1.169 louis 2415:
1.158 louis 2416: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2417: <ul>
1.147 louis 2418:
1.247 jufi 2419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2420: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2421: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2422: </strong></font><br>
2423:
2424: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2425: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2426: <p>
2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2429: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2430: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2431: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2432: </strong></font><br>
2433: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2434: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2435: <p>
2436:
1.247 jufi 2437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2438: <a
2439: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2440: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2441: </strong></font><br>
2442:
2443: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2444: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2445: <p>
2446:
1.247 jufi 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2448: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2449: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2450: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2451:
1.213 horacio 2452: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2453: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2454: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2455: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2456: <p>
1.215 horacio 2457:
1.247 jufi 2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2459: <a
2460: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2461: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2462: </strong></font><br>
2463:
2464: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2465: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2466: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2467: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2468: much of the attitude too).
2469: <p>
1.161 louis 2470:
1.247 jufi 2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2472: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2473: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2474: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2475:
1.157 louis 2476: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2477: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2478: <p>
1.247 jufi 2479: </ul>
1.157 louis 2480:
2481: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2482: <ul>
1.157 louis 2483:
1.247 jufi 2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2485: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2486: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2487: </strong></font><br>
2488:
2489: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2490: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2491: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2492: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2493: <p>
2494:
1.247 jufi 2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2496: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2497: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2498: </strong></font><br>
2499:
2500: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2501: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2502: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2503: it because they love coding...
2504: <p>
2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2507: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2508: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2509: </strong></font><br>
2510:
2511: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2512: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2513: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2514: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2515: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2516: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2517: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2518: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2519: <p>
2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2522: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2523: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2524: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2525: </strong></font><br>
2526:
2527: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2528: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2529: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2530: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2531: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2532: the pizza.
2533: <p>
2534:
1.247 jufi 2535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2536: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2537: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2538: </strong></font><br>
2539:
2540: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2541: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2542: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2543: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2544: problems.
2545: <p>
2546:
1.247 jufi 2547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2548: <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 2549: </strong></font><br>
2550:
1.222 miod 2551: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2552: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2553: - whether they like it or not.
2554: <p>
2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2557: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2558: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2559: </strong></font><br>
2560:
2561: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2562: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2563: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2564: <p>
1.148 aaron 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2567: <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 2568: </strong></font><br>
2569:
2570: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2571: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2572: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2573: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2574: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2575: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2576: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2577: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2578: <p>
2579:
1.247 jufi 2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2581: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2582: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2583: </strong></font><br>
2584:
2585: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2586: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2587: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2588: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2589: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2590: <p>
1.247 jufi 2591: </ul>
1.147 louis 2592:
1.138 louis 2593: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2594: <ul>
1.138 louis 2595:
1.247 jufi 2596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2597: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2598: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2599: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2600: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2601: </strong></font><br>
2602:
1.227 horacio 2603: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2604: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2605: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2606: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2607: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2608: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2609: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2610: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2611: <p>
2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2614: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2615: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2616: </strong></font><br>
2617:
2618: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2619: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2620: groups, and even Linux.
2621: <p>
2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2624: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2625: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2626: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2627: </strong></font><br>
2628:
2629: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2630: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2631: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2632: library after installing the OS.
2633: <p>
2634:
1.247 jufi 2635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2636: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2637: Sys Admin, September 2000
2638: </strong></font><br>
2639:
2640: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2641: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2642: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2643: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2644: (<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>,
2645: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2646: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2647: <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 2648: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2649: out of the system.
2650: <p>
2651:
1.247 jufi 2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2653: <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
2654: </strong></font><br>
2655:
2656: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2657: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2658: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2659: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2660: the IP filtering and address translation.
2661: <p>
1.301 jose 2662:
2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2664: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2665: </strong></font><br>
2666:
2667: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2668: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2669: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2670: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2671: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2672: <p>
1.247 jufi 2673: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2674:
1.131 louis 2675: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2676: <ul>
1.131 louis 2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2679: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2680: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2681: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2682: </strong></font><br>
2683:
2684: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2685: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2686: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2687: <p>
2688:
1.247 jufi 2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2690: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2691: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2692: </strong></font><br>
2693:
2694: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2695: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2696: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2697: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2698: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2699: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2700: note of"</i>.
2701: <p>
2702:
1.247 jufi 2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2704: <a
1.247 jufi 2705: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2706: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2707: </strong></font><br>
2708:
2709: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2710: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2711: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2712: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2713: <p>
2714:
1.247 jufi 2715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2716: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2717: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2718: </strong></font><br>
2719:
2720: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2721: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2722: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2723: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2724: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2725: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2726: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2727: <p>
2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2730: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2731: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2732: 2000
2733: </strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2736: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2737: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2738: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2739: against current industry practices.
2740: <p>
2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2743: <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
2744: </strong></font><br>
2745:
2746: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2747: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2748: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2752: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2753: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2754: </strong></font><br>
2755:
2756: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2757: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2758: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2759: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2760: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2761: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2762: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2763: <p>
2764:
1.247 jufi 2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2766: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2767: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2768: </strong></font><br>
2769:
2770: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2771: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2772: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2773: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2774: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2775: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2776: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2777: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2778: <p>
1.247 jufi 2779: </ul>
1.131 louis 2780:
1.118 louis 2781: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2782: <ul>
1.118 louis 2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2785: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2786: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2787: </strong></font><br>
2788:
2789: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2790: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2791: about time. The article mentions that
2792: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2793: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2794: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2795: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2796: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2797: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2798: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2799: <p>
2800:
1.247 jufi 2801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2802: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2803: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2804: </strong></font><br>
2805:
2806: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2807: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2808: of OpenSSH.
2809: <p>
2810:
1.247 jufi 2811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2812: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2813: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2814: </strong></font><br>
2815:
2816: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2817: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2818: bridging.
2819: <p>
2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2822: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2823: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2824: </strong></font><br>
2825:
1.121 deraadt 2826: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2827: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2828: <p>
2829:
1.247 jufi 2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2831: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2832: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2833: </strong></font><br>
2834:
2835: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2836: <p>
2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2839: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2840: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2841: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
1.120 deraadt 2844: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2845: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2846: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2847: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2848: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2849: <p>
2850:
1.247 jufi 2851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2852: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2853: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2854: </strong></font><br>
2855:
1.222 miod 2856: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2857: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2858: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2859: protocols and their quirks.
2860: <p>
2861:
1.247 jufi 2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2863: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2864: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2865: </strong></font><br>
2866:
2867: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2868: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2869: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2870: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2871: <p>
2872:
1.247 jufi 2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2874: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2875: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2876: </strong></font><br>
2877:
2878: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2879: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2880: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2881: <p>
2882:
1.247 jufi 2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2884: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2885: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2886: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888:
2889: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2890: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2891: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2892: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2893: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2894: <p>
1.247 jufi 2895: </ul>
1.118 louis 2896:
1.104 louis 2897: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2898: <ul>
1.104 louis 2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2901: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2902: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2903: </strong></font><br>
2904:
2905: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2906: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2907: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2908: be a bit dry.
2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2912: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2913: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2914: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2915: </strong></font><br>
2916: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2917: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2918: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2919: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2920: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2921: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2922: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2923: <p>
2924:
1.247 jufi 2925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2926: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2927: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2928: 2000
1.128 louis 2929: </strong></font><br>
2930:
2931: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2932: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2933: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2934: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2935: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2936: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2937: <p>
2938:
1.247 jufi 2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2940: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2941: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2942: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2943:
2944: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2945: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2946: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2947: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2948: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2949: <p>
1.110 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2952: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2953: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2954: </strong></font><br>
2955:
2956: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2957: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2958: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2959: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2960: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2961: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2962: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2963: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2964: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2965: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2966: <p>
2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2969: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2970: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2971:
2972: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2973: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2974: <p>
1.108 louis 2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2977: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2978: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2979: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2980:
2981: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2982: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2983: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2984: <p>
1.106 louis 2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2987: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2988: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2989: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2990:
2991: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2992: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2993: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2994: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2995: <p>
1.107 louis 2996:
1.247 jufi 2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2998: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2999: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3000: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3001:
3002: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3003: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3004: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3005: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3006: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3007: <p>
1.105 louis 3008:
1.247 jufi 3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3010: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3011: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3012: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3013:
1.113 naddy 3014: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3015: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3016: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3017: <p>
1.104 louis 3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3020: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3021: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3022: </strong></font><br>
3023:
3024: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3025: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3026: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3027: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3028: <p>
1.301 jose 3029:
3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3031: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3032: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3033: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3034:
3035: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3036: hardware-supported cryptography.
3037: <p>
1.247 jufi 3038: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3039:
1.85 louis 3040: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3041: <ul>
1.85 louis 3042:
1.247 jufi 3043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3044: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3045: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3046: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3047:
3048: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3049: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3050: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3051: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3052: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3053: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3054: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3055: <p>
1.99 louis 3056:
1.247 jufi 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3058: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3059: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3060: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3061:
3062: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3063: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3064: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3065: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3066: <p>
1.100 louis 3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3069: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3070: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3071: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3072:
3073: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3074: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3075: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3076: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3077: <p>
1.95 louis 3078:
1.247 jufi 3079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3080: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3081: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3082: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3083:
3084: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3085: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3086: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3087: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3088: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3089: <p>
1.92 louis 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3092: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3093: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3094: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3095:
3096: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3097: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3098: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3099: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3100: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3101: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3102: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3103: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3104: <p>
1.91 louis 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3107: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3108: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3110:
3111: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3112: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3113: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3114: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3115: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3116: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3117: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3118: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3119: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3120: <p>
1.90 louis 3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3123: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3124: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3125: </strong></font><br>
3126: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3127: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3128: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3129: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3130: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3131: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3132: <p>
3133:
1.247 jufi 3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3135: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3136: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3137: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3138:
1.113 naddy 3139: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3140: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3141: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3142: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3143: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3144: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3145: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3146: <p>
1.87 louis 3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3149: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3150: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3151: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3152:
3153: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3154: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3155: <p>
1.85 louis 3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3158: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3159: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3160: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3161:
3162: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3163: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3164: <p>
3165:
3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3167: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3168: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3169: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3170:
3171: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3172: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3173: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3174: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3175: <p>
1.89 louis 3176:
1.247 jufi 3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3178: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3179: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3180: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3181:
3182: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3183: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3184: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3185: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3186: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3187: </ul>
1.85 louis 3188:
1.78 deraadt 3189: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3190: <ul>
1.74 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3193: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3194: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3195: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3196: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3197:
3198: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3199: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3200: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3201: <p>
1.83 louis 3202:
1.247 jufi 3203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3204: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3205: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3206: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3207:
3208: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3209: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3210: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3211: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3212: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3213: <p>
1.93 louis 3214:
1.247 jufi 3215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3216: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3217: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3218: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3219: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3220:
1.83 louis 3221: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3222: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3223: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3224: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3225: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3226: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3227: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3228: <p>
1.82 aaron 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3231: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3232: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3233: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3234:
1.83 louis 3235: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3236: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3237: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3238: <p>
1.80 louis 3239:
1.247 jufi 3240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3241: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3242: Bad Press</a>,
3243: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3244: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3245:
3246: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3247: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3248: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3249: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3250: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3251: <p>
1.247 jufi 3252: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3253:
3254: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3255: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3256:
1.247 jufi 3257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3258: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3259: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3260: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3261: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3262:
3263: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3264: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3265: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3266: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3267: <p>
1.74 louis 3268:
1.247 jufi 3269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3270: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3271: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3272: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3273:
1.219 horacio 3274: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3275: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3276: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3277: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3278: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3279: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3280: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3281: <p>
1.88 louis 3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3284: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3285: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3286: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3287:
3288: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3289: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3290: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3291: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3292: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3293: <p>
1.81 louis 3294:
1.247 jufi 3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3296: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3297: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3298: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3299:
3300: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3301: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3302: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3303: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3304: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3305: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3306: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3307: <p>
1.90 louis 3308:
1.247 jufi 3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3310: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3311: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3312: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3313:
3314: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3315: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3316: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3317: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3318: <p>
1.247 jufi 3319: </ul>
1.71 louis 3320:
1.69 deraadt 3321: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3322: <ul>
1.70 louis 3323:
1.247 jufi 3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3325: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3326: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3327: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3328:
3329: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3330: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3331: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3332: <p>
1.70 louis 3333:
1.247 jufi 3334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3335: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3336: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3337: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3338:
3339: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3340: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3341: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3342: <p>
1.68 louis 3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3345: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3346: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3347: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3348: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3349:
1.111 jufi 3350: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3351: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3352: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3353: "secure by default" installation.
3354: <p>
1.64 louis 3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3357: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3358: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3359: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3360:
1.113 naddy 3361: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3362: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3363: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3364: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3365: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3366: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3367: <p>
1.66 louis 3368:
1.247 jufi 3369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3370: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3371: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3372: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3373:
3374: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3375: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3376: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3377: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3378: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3379: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3380: <p>
1.83 louis 3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3383: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3384: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3386:
3387: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3388: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3389: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3390: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3391: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3392: <p>
1.64 louis 3393:
1.247 jufi 3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3395: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3396: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3397: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3398:
3399: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3400: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3401: <p>
1.301 jose 3402:
3403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3404: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3405: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3406: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3407: </strong></font><br>
3408:
3409: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3410: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3411: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3412: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3413: Giving way to
3414: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3415: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3416: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3417: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3418: <p>
1.247 jufi 3419: </ul>
1.65 louis 3420:
1.69 deraadt 3421: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3422: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3423:
1.247 jufi 3424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3425: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3426: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3427: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3428:
3429: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3430: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3431: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3432: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3433: <p>
1.88 louis 3434:
1.247 jufi 3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3436: <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 3437: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3438:
3439: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3440: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3441: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3442: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3443: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3444: <p>
1.60 louis 3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3447: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3448: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3449: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3450: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3451:
3452: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3453: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3454: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3455: <p>
1.58 louis 3456:
1.247 jufi 3457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3458: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3459: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3460:
3461: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3462: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3463: <p>
1.53 louis 3464:
1.247 jufi 3465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3466: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3467: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3468: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3469:
3470: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3471: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3472: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3473: <p>
1.99 louis 3474:
1.247 jufi 3475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3476: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3477: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3478:
3479: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3480: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3481: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3482: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3483: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3486: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3487: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3488: </strong></font><br>
3489:
3490: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3491: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3492: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3493: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3494: <p>
3495:
1.247 jufi 3496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3497: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3498: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3499: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3500:
3501: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3502: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3503: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3506: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3507: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3508:
3509: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3510: in
1.247 jufi 3511: <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 3512: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3513: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3514: <p>
1.53 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3517: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3518: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3519: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3520: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3521:
1.58 louis 3522: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3523: <p>
1.301 jose 3524:
3525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3526: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3527: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3528: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3529: Informacyjny, January 2000
3530: </strong></font><br>
3531:
3532: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3533: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3534: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3535: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3536: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3537: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3538: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3539: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3540: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3541: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3542: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3543: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3544: <p>
3545:
3546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3547: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3548: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3549: </strong></font><br>
3550:
3551: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3552: <p>
3553: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3554:
1.69 deraadt 3555: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3556: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3559: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3560: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3561: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3562: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3563:
1.58 louis 3564: Kurt Seifried
3565: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3566: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3567: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3568: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3569:
1.247 jufi 3570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3571: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3572: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3573: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3574:
3575: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3576: <p>
1.96 louis 3577:
1.247 jufi 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3579: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3580: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3581: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3582: </strong></font><br>
3583:
3584: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3585: <p>
3586:
3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3588: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3589: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3590: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3591:
3592: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3593: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3594: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3595: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3596: <p>
1.247 jufi 3597: </ul>
1.86 louis 3598:
1.69 deraadt 3599: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3600: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3603: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3604: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3605: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3606:
3607: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3608: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3609: <p>
1.61 louis 3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3612: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3613: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3614: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3615: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3616:
3617: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3618: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3619: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3620: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3621: right -- or at least strives to".
3622: <p>
1.48 louis 3623:
1.247 jufi 3624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3625: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3626: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3627: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3628: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3629: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3630: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3631: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3632: <p>
1.61 louis 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <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 3635: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3636: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3637:
3638: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3639: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3640: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3641: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3642: <p>
1.46 louis 3643:
1.247 jufi 3644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3645: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3646: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3647: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3648:
3649: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3650: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3651: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3652:
1.247 jufi 3653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3654: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3655: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3656: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3657:
3658: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3659: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3660: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3661: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3662: <p>
1.247 jufi 3663: </ul>
1.70 louis 3664:
1.69 deraadt 3665: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3666: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3667:
1.247 jufi 3668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3669: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3670: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3671: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3672: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3673:
3674: Kurt Seifried
3675: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3676: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3677: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3678: <p>
1.44 philen 3679:
1.247 jufi 3680: <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 3681: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3682: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3683:
3684: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3685: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3686:
1.247 jufi 3687: <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 3688: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3689: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3690:
3691: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3692: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3693:
1.247 jufi 3694: <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 3695: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3696: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3697:
3698: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3699: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3700: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3701: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3702: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3703:
1.247 jufi 3704: <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 3705: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3706: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3707:
1.36 louis 3708: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3709: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3712: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3713: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3714: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3715:
3716: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3717: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3718: </ul>
1.38 louis 3719:
1.69 deraadt 3720: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3721: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <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 3724: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3725: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3726:
3727: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3728: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3729: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3730:
1.113 naddy 3731: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3732: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3733: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3734: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3735:
3736: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3737: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3738: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3739: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3740: <blockquote>
3741: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3742: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3743: <br>
3744: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3745: </code>
3746: </blockquote>
3747: <p>
3748:
1.247 jufi 3749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3750: <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 3751: <p>
3752:
3753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3754: <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 3755: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3756:
3757: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3758: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3759: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3760: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3763: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3764: Sept. 28, 1999
3765: </strong></font><br>
3766:
3767: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3768: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3769: translating and reprinting articles from
3770: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3771: <p>
3772:
3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3774: <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 3775: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3776:
3777: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3778: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3779: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3780: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3781: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3782: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3783: <p>
1.19 louis 3784:
1.113 naddy 3785: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3786: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3787: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3788:
3789: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3790: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3791: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3792: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3793: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3794: <p>
1.16 louis 3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3797: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3798: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3799: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3800:
1.57 louis 3801: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3802: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3803: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3804: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3807: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3808: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3809: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3810:
1.113 naddy 3811: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3814: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3815: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3816: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3817:
1.23 louis 3818: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3819: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3820: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3821: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3822: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3823: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3824:
1.247 jufi 3825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3826: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3827: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3828: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3829:
1.199 pvalchev 3830: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3831: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3832: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3833: installation.
1.113 naddy 3834: <p>
1.47 louis 3835:
1.247 jufi 3836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3837: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3838: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3839: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3840:
1.301 jose 3841: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3842: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3843: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3844: </ul>
1.57 louis 3845:
1.69 deraadt 3846: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3847: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3850: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3851: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3852: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3853:
3854: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3855: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3856: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3857: <p>
1.12 louis 3858:
1.247 jufi 3859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3860: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3861: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3862: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3863:
3864: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3865: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3866: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3867: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3868: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3869: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3870: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3871: <p>
1.247 jufi 3872: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3873:
1.69 deraadt 3874: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3875: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3876:
1.247 jufi 3877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3878: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3879: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3880:
3881: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3882: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3883: available."
1.113 naddy 3884: <p>
1.301 jose 3885:
3886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3887: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3888: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3889: </strong></font><br>
3890:
3891: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3892: <p>
1.247 jufi 3893: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3894:
1.69 deraadt 3895: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3896: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3897:
1.247 jufi 3898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3899: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3900: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3901:
3902: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3903: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3904: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3905: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3906: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3907: <p>
1.33 louis 3908:
1.247 jufi 3909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3910: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3911: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3912: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3913:
1.113 naddy 3914: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3915: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3916: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3917: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3918: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3919: <p>
1.247 jufi 3920: </ul>
1.57 louis 3921:
1.69 deraadt 3922: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3923: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3924:
1.247 jufi 3925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3926: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3927: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3928: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3929:
3930: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3931: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3932: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3935: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3936: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3937: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3938: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3939:
3940: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3941: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3942:
1.247 jufi 3943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3944: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3945:
1.113 naddy 3946: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3947:
1.247 jufi 3948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3949: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3950: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3951: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3952:
3953: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3954: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3955: </ul>
1.23 louis 3956:
1.69 deraadt 3957: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3958: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3959:
1.247 jufi 3960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3961: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3962: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3963:
3964: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3965: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3966: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3967:
1.247 jufi 3968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3969: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3970: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3971: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3972:
3973: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3974: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3975: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3976: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3977: </ul>
1.57 louis 3978:
1.69 deraadt 3979: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3980: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3981:
1.247 jufi 3982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3983: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3984: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3985: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3986:
3987: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3988: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3989: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3990: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3991: <p>
1.15 louis 3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3994: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3995: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3996: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3997:
3998: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3999: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4000: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4001: columns."
1.113 naddy 4002: <p>
1.247 jufi 4003: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4004:
1.69 deraadt 4005: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4006: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4009: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4010: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4011: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4012:
4013: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4014: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4015:
1.113 naddy 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4017: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4018: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4019:
4020: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4021: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4022: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4023: </ul>
1.57 louis 4024:
1.69 deraadt 4025: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4026: <ul>
1.301 jose 4027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4028: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4029: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4030: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4031:
4032: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4033: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4034: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4035: <p>
4036:
4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4038: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4039: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4040: Nov 13, 1998 and
4041: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4042: Datateknik</a>,
4043: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4044:
1.380 saad 4045: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4046: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4047: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4048: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4049: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4050:
1.113 naddy 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4052: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4053: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4054: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4055:
1.222 miod 4056: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4057: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4058: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4059: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4060: <p>
1.247 jufi 4061: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4062:
1.69 deraadt 4063: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4064: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4065:
1.247 jufi 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4067: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4068: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4069:
1.69 deraadt 4070: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4071: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4072: <p>
1.247 jufi 4073: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4074:
1.69 deraadt 4075: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4076: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4077:
1.247 jufi 4078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4079: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4080: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4081: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4082:
1.383 jcs 4083: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4084: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4085: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4088: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4089: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4090: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4091: <p>
1.247 jufi 4092: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4093:
1.69 deraadt 4094: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4095: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4096:
1.247 jufi 4097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4098: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4099: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4100: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4101: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4102: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4103:
4104: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4105: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4106: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4107: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4108: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4109: <p>
1.247 jufi 4110: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4111:
4112: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4113: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4116: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4117: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4118:
1.69 deraadt 4119: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4120: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4121: <p>
1.112 naddy 4122:
1.247 jufi 4123: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4124: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4125:
1.292 camield 4126: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4127: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4128: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.396 ! henning 4129: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.395 2004/05/27 03:04:45 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4130:
4131: </body>
4132: </html>