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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.396 henning 19: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 ! otto 22: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
! 23: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
! 24: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
! 27: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
! 28: <p>
! 29: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 30: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
31: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
32: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
33: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
34: <p>
35: </ul>
36:
1.393 david 37: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
38: <ul>
39: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 40: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
41: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
42: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
43: </strong></font><br>
44: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
45: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
46: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
47: on inserting large number of SQL records.
48: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
49: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
50: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
51: <p>
52:
53: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 54: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
55: Secure by Default</a>,
56: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
57: </strong></font><br>
58: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
59: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
60: <p>
61:
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
63: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
64: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
65: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
66: </strong></font><br>
67: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
68: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
69: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
70: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
71: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
72: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
73: <p>
74:
75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
76: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
77: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
78: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
79: </strong></font><br>
80: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
81: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
82: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
86: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
87: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
88: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
89: </strong></font><br>
90: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
91: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
92: <p>
93: </ul>
94:
1.388 mcbride 95: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
96: <ul>
1.394 jolan 97:
98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
99: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
100: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
101: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
102: </strong></font><br>
103: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
104: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
105: available for sparc64.
106: <p>
107:
1.390 beck 108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 109: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
110: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
111: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
112: </strong></font><br>
113: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
114: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
115: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
116: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
117: <p>
118:
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 120: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
121: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 122: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 123: </strong></font><br>
124: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
125: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
126: it does: CARP provides sharing
127: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
128: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
129: detail to get you started using it.
130: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
131: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
132: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
133: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
134: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
135: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
136: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 137: <p>
1.391 ian 138:
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 141: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
142: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 143: </strong></font><br>
144: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 145: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 146: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 147: <p>
1.388 mcbride 148:
149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
150: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
151: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 152: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 153: </strong></font><br>
154: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
155: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
156: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
157: unencumbered by patents.
158: <p>
159: </ul>
160:
1.378 henning 161: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
162: <ul>
1.384 jose 163:
164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 165: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
166: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
167: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
168: </strong></font><br>
169: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
170: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
171: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
172: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
173: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
174: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
175: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
176: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
177: in the page tables."
178: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 182: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
183: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
184: </strong></font><br>
185: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
186: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
187: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
188: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 189: <p>
1.384 jose 190:
1.378 henning 191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 192: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
193: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 194: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
195: </strong></font><br>
196: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
197: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
198: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
199: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
200: (quote:
201: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
202: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 203: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 204: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
205: the other developers for their work on the system.
206: <p>
207:
208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 209: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
210: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
211: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 212: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 213: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
214: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
215: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
216: too.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 220: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
221: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 222: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 223: OpenBSD source code using
224: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
225: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
226: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
227: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
228: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
229: <p>
230: </ul>
231:
1.374 jose 232: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
233: <ul>
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 235: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 236: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
237: </strong></font><br>
238: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
239: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
240: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
241: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
242: it."
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 246: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
247: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
248: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
249: </strong></font><br/>
250: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
251: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
252: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
253: <p>
254: </ul>
255:
1.369 ian 256: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
257: <ul>
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 259: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
260: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
261: </strong></font><br/>
262: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
263: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
264: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
265: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 269: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
270: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
271: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
272: </strong></font><br/>
273: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
274: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
275: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
276: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
277: form factor.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
281: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
282: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
283: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
284: Features</a>,
285: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
286: </strong></font><br/>
287: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
288: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
289: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
290: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
291: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
292: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
293: <p>
294: This article can also be found online at:
295: <ul>
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 297: <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 298: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
299: </strong></font>
300: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
301: </ul>
302: <p>
1.392 david 303:
1.371 jose 304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 305: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
306: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 307: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
308: </strong></font><br/>
309: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
310: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
311: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 312: <p>
1.371 jose 313:
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 315: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 316: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 317: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 318: </strong></font><br/>
319: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
320: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
321: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
322: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
323: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
324: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
325: and its history with OpenBSD.
326: </ul>
327:
1.368 henning 328: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
329: <ul>
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 331: [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 332: </strong></font><br>
333: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
334: </ul>
335:
1.364 jose 336: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
337: <ul>
338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 339: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
340: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
341: UNIX Review,
342: July, 2003.
343: </strong></font><br>
344: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
345: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
346: who want more information.
347: <p>
348:
349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 350: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
351: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
352: Government Computer News,
353: July 22, 2003.
354: </strong></font><br>
355: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
356: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
357: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
358: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
359: <p>
360:
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
362: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
363: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
364: SANS Institute,
365: July 22, 2003.
366: </strong></font><br>
367: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 368: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 369: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
370: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
371: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
372: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
373: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
374: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
375: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
376: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
377: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 381: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
382: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
383: OnLamp.com,
384: July 17, 2003.
385: </strong></font><br>
386: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
387: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
388: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
389: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
390: have been working on.
391:
392: </ul>
393:
1.356 jose 394: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 395: <ul>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 398: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
399: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
400: UNIX Review,
401: June, 2003.
402: </strong></font><br>
403: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
404: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
405: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
406: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 410: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
411: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
412: eWeek,
413: June 23, 2003.
414: </strong></font><br>
415: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
416: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
417: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
418: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
419: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
420: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 424: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
425: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
426: Software Development Online,
427: June, 2003.
428: </strong></font><br>
429: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
430: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
431: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
432: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
433: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
434: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
435: current activities.
436: <p>
437:
438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 439: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
440: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 441: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
442: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
443: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
444: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
445: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
446: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
447: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
448: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 449: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 450: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
451: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
452: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
453: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
454: decisions.
455: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
456: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
457: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
458: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 462: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
463: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
464: Page 58, eWeek,
465: June 2, 2003.
466: </strong></font><br>
467: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
468: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
469: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
470: been addressed in -current.
471: <p>
472:
1.356 jose 473: </ul>
474:
475: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
476: <ul>
477:
1.355 jose 478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 479: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
480: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
481: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
482: </strong></font><br>
483: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
484: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
485: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
486: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
487: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
488: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
489: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
490: <p>
491:
492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 493: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
494: Beyond Linux</a>,
495: InfoWorld,
496: May 23, 2003.
497: </strong></font><br>
498: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
499: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
500: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
501: compared to the GPL.
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 505: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
506: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
507: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 508: May 17, 2003.
509: </strong></font><br>
510: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
511: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
512: the business section and half of another page inside
513: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
514: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
515: in talking about the project's history and goals.
516: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
517: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
518: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
519: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 520: <br>
521: This article can also be found online at:
522: <ul>
523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
524: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
525: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
526: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
527: May 17, 2003
528: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 529: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
531: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
532: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
533: Montreal Gazette,
534: May 21, 2003
535: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 536: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 537: <p>
1.346 ian 538:
539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 540: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 541: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 542: May 7, 2003.
543: </strong></font><br>
544: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
545: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
546: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
547: <p>
548:
549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 550: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
551: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
552: OsOpinion,
553: May 6, 2003.
554: </strong></font><br>
555: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
556: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
557: <br>
558: This article can also be found online at:
559: <ul>
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
561: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
562: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
563: NewsFactor Network.
564: </strong></font>
565: </ul>
566: <p>
567:
568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 569: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 570: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
571: ITBusiness,
572: May 2, 2003.
573: </strong></font><br>
574: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
575: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
576: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
577: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
578: <p>
579:
580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 581: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
582: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
583: InfoWorld,
584: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 585: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 586: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
587: <br>
588: This article can also be found online at:
589: <ul>
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
591: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
592: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
593: IDG Singapore.
594: </strong></font>
595: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.339 jose 598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
599: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
600: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 601: ZDNet,
602: May 1, 2003.
603: </strong></font><br>
604: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 605: someone using parts from previous articles.
606: <br>
1.341 deraadt 607: This article can also be found online at:
608: <ul>
609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
610: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
611: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
612: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 613: </strong></font>
614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
615: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
616: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
617: CNET News.com.
618: </strong></font>
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
620: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
621: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
622: ZDNet UK.
623: </strong></font>
624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
625: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
626: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
627: Help Net Security, Croatia.
628: </strong></font>
629: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 630: <p>
1.339 jose 631:
1.341 deraadt 632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 633: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 634: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
635: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
636: May 1, 2003.
637: </strong></font><br>
638: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
639: that have been added
640: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
641: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
642: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 643: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 644: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
645: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
646: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 647: <p>
648:
649: </ul>
650:
1.253 ian 651: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
652: <ul>
1.255 ian 653:
1.260 ian 654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 655: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 656: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
657: TechRepublic,
658: April 28, 2003.
659: </strong></font><br>
660: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
661: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 662: work.<br>
663: Can also be found online at:
664: <ul>
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
666: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
667: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
668: ZDNet UK.
669: </strong></font>
670: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 671: <p>
672:
673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 674: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
675: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
676: IDG,
677: April 24, 2003.
678: </strong></font><br>
679: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
680: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
681: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
682: Can also be found online at:
683: <ul>
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
685: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
686: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 687: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 688: </strong></font>
689: </ul>
690: <p>
691:
692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
693: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 694: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 695: Slate,
696: April 24, 2003.
697: </strong></font><br>
698: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
699: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
700: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
701: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
702: <p>
703:
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 705: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
706: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
707: April 24, 2003.
708: </strong></font><br>
709: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
710: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
711: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
712: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 716: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
717: April 24, 2003.
718: </strong></font><br>
719: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
720: the free software community".
721: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
722: other articles.
723: <p>
724:
725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 726: <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 727: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
728: </strong></font><br>
729: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
730: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
731: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
732: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
733: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
734: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
735: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
736: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
737: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
738: <br/>
739: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
740: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
741: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
742: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 743: <br>
744: Can also be found online at:
745: <ul>
746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
747: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
748: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
749: Common Dreams NewsCenter
750: </strong></font>
751: </ul>
1.324 ian 752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
755: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
756: Wired, April 24, 2003.
757: </strong></font><br>
758: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
759: article above.
760: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
761: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
762: wasting them."
1.332 ian 763: <br>
764: Can also be found online at:
765: <ul>
766: <li>
767: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
768: </strong></font>
769: </ul>
1.324 ian 770: <p>
771:
772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 773: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
774: </strong></font><br>
775: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 779: <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.
780: </strong></font><br>
781: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
782: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
783: <p>
784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 786: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
787: April 23, 2003.
788: </strong></font><br>
789: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 793: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 794: April 22, 2003.
795: </strong></font><br>
796: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 800: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
801: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
802: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 803: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 804: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
805: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
806: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
807: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
808: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
809: Can also be found online at:
810: <ul>
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
812: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 813: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
814: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 815: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
817: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 818: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
819: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 820: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 821: </ul>
822: <p>
823:
824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 825: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
826: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 827: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 828: </strong></font><br>
829: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 830: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
831: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
832: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
833: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
834: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
835: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 836: <p>
837:
838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 839: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
840: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 841: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
842: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 843: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
844: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
845: at UPenn and DARPA.
846: <p>
847:
848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 849: [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,
850: France
1.315 deraadt 851: April 18, 2003.
852: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 853: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 854: <p>
855:
856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 857: [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 858: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 859: </strong></font><br>
860: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
861: <p>
862:
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 864: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
865: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
866: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 867: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 868: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
869: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
870: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
871: <p>
872:
873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 874: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
875: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 876: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 877: </strong></font><br>
878: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
879: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
880: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 881: American century.
1.267 deraadt 882: <p>
883:
884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 885: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
886: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 887: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 888: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 889: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
890: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
891: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
892: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
893: Can also be found online at:
894: <ul>
895: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
896: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 897: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 898: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 899: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 900: <p>
901:
902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 903: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 904: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 905: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 906: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 907: </strong></font><br>
908: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 909: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
910: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
911: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
912: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 913:
914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
915: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
916: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
917: New York Times.
918: </strong></font>(free registration required)
919:
1.273 deraadt 920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
921: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 922: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 923: ABC News.
924: </strong></font>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 927: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 928: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 929: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 930: </strong></font>
931:
932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 933: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 934: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 935: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 936: </strong></font>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 939: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
940: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 941: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 942: </strong></font>
943:
944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 945: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 946: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 947: Times Daily, AL.
948: </strong></font>
949:
950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
951: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
952: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
953: Boston.com, MA.
954: </strong></font>
955:
956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 957: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 958: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 959: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
960: </strong></font>
961:
962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 963: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
964: [Article was pulled]</a>
965: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 966: </strong></font>
967:
968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
969: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
970: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
971: Infoshop News.
972: </strong></font>
973:
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
975: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
976: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
977: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
978: </strong></font>
979:
980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 981: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
982: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
983: Raleigh News, NC.
984: </strong></font>
985:
986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 987: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 988: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
989: Napa News, CA.
990: </strong></font>
991:
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 993: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 994: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
995: NEPA News, PA.
996: </strong></font>
997:
998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
999: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1000: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1001: Wired News.
1002: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1003: <br>
1004: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1005: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1006: [JAPANESE]
1007: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1008: Wired News Japan</a>
1009: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1010:
1.271 deraadt 1011: </ul>
1012: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1013: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1014: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1015: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1016: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1017: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1018: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1019: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1020: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1021: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1022: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1023: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1024: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1025: <p>
1026: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1027:
1028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1029: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1030: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1031: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1032: </strong></font>
1033:
1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1035: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1036: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1037: Miami Herald, FL.
1038: </strong></font>
1039:
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1041: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1042: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1043: </strong></font>
1044:
1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1046: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1047: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1048: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1049: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1050:
1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1052: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1053: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1054: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1055: ABC News.
1056: </strong></font>
1057:
1.276 deraadt 1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1059: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1060: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1061: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1062: </strong></font>
1063:
1.286 dhartmei 1064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1065: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1066: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1067: Wilmington Star, NC.
1068: </strong></font>
1069:
1.300 jose 1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1071: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1072: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1073: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1074: </strong></font>
1075:
1.309 jose 1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1077: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1078: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1079: Globe Technology.
1080: </strong></font>
1081:
1.263 deraadt 1082: </ul>
1.262 beck 1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1086: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1087: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1088: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1089: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1090: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1091: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1092: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1096: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1097: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1098: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1099: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1100: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1101: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1102: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1103: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1104: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1105: and simply restates other press reports.
1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1109: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1110: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1111: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1117: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1118: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1119: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1120: </strong></font><br>
1121: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1122: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1123: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1127: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1128: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1129: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1130: April 17, 2003.
1131: </strong></font><br>
1132: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1133: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1134: Tech Anthems</a>
1135: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1136: 4 so far.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1140: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1141: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1142: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1143: </strong></font><br>
1144: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1145: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1146: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1147: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1148: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1149: Goes on to say:
1150: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1151: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1152: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1153: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1154: This article is also found online at:
1155: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1157: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1158: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1159: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1160: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1162: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1163: ZDnet</a>,
1164: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1165: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1167: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1168: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1169: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1170: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1171: </ul>
1.260 ian 1172: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1173:
1.260 ian 1174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1175: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1176: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1177: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1178: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1179: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1180: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1181: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1182: without notice or justification.
1183: <p>
1184:
1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1186: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1187: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1188: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1189: </strong></font><br>
1190: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1191: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1192: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1193: effective today, without any warning..."
1194: <p>
1.257 ian 1195:
1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1197: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1198: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1199: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1200: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1201: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1202: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1203: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1204: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1205: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1206: <p>
1207:
1208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1209: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1210: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1211: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1212: </strong></font><br>
1213: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1214: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1215: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1216: quoting two of them:
1217: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1218: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1219: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1220: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1221: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1222: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1223: <p>
1224:
1.255 ian 1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1226: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1227: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1228: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1229: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1230: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1231: <p>
1232:
1233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1234: [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 1235: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1236: </strong></font><br>
1237: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1241: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1242: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1243: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1244: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1245: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1246: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1247: security experts for more than three decades."
1248: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1249: <p>
1.261 ian 1250:
1.254 drahn 1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1252: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1253: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1254: </strong></font><br>
1255: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1256: <p>
1257:
1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1259: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1260: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1261: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1262: </strong></font><br>
1263: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1264: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1265: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1266: <p>
1267:
1268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1269: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1270: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1271: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1272: </strong></font><br>
1273: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1274: from US DARPA.
1275: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1276: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1277: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1278: the BSD license.
1279: <p>
1280: </ul>
1281:
1.251 ian 1282: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1283: <ul>
1284:
1285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1286: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1287: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1288: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1289: </strong></font><br>
1290:
1291: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1292: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1293: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1294: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1295: <p>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1298: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1299: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1300: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1301: </strong></font><br>
1302: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1303: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1304: Mentions
1305: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1306: and
1307: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1308: programs.
1309: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1310: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1311: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1312: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1313: <p>
1.325 ian 1314: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1315: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1316:
1317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1318: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1319: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1320: </strong></font><br>
1321: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1322: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1323: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1324: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1325: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1326: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1327: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1328: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1329: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1330: put into service."
1331: <p>
1332: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1333: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1334: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1335: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1336: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1337: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1338: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1339: computers with security features."
1340: <p>
1.329 ian 1341:
1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1343: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1344: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1345: Slate,
1346: March 3, 2003.
1347: </strong></font><br>
1348: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1349: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1350: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1351: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1352: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1353: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1354: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1355: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1356: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1357: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1358: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1359: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1360: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1361: of more secure open-source solutions like
1362: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1363: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1364: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1365: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1366: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1367: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1368: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1369: the Beltway."
1370: <p>
1.251 ian 1371: </ul>
1372:
1.249 jufi 1373: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1374: <ul>
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1376: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1377: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1378: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1379: </strong></font><br>
1380: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1381: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1382: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1383: <p>
1.334 ian 1384:
1385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1386: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1387: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1388: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1389: </strong></font><br>
1390: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1391: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1392: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1393: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1394: "... the hypothetical question ...
1395: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1396: <br>
1397: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1398: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1399: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1400: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1401: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1402: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1403: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1404: support network security.
1405: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1406: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1407: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1408: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1409: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1410: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1411: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1412: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1413: <br>
1414: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1415: <p>
1416:
1.249 jufi 1417: </ul>
1418:
1.246 jufi 1419: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1420: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1421:
1.247 jufi 1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1423: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1424: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1425: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1426: </strong></font><br>
1427: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1428: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1429: <p>
1430:
1.247 jufi 1431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1432: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1433: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1434: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1435: </strong></font><br>
1436: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1437: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1438: <p>
1439:
1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1441: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1442: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1443: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1444: </strong></font><br>
1445: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1446: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1447: <p>
1.247 jufi 1448: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1449:
1.244 jufi 1450: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1451: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1452:
1.247 jufi 1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1454: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1455: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1456: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1457: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1458: </strong></font><br>
1459: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1460: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1461: md5 digests.
1462: <p>
1463:
1.247 jufi 1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1465: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1466: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1467: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1468: </strong></font><br>
1469: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1470: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1471: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1472: right the first time."
1473: <p>
1.247 jufi 1474: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1475:
1476:
1477: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1478: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1479:
1.247 jufi 1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1481: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1482: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1483: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1484: </strong></font><br>
1485: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1486: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1487: part 6</a>.
1488: <p>
1489:
1.247 jufi 1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1491: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1492: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1493: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1494: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1495: </strong></font><br>
1496: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1497: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1498: <p>
1.301 jose 1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1501: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1502: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1503: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1504: </strong></font><br>
1505:
1506: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1507: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1508: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1509: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1510: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1511: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1512: <i>Here's the
1513: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1514: <p>
1.247 jufi 1515: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1516:
1517: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1518: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1519:
1.247 jufi 1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1521: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1522: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1523: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1524: </strong></font><br>
1525: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1526: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1527: <p>
1528:
1.247 jufi 1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1530: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1531: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1532: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1533: </strong></font><br>
1534: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1535: this time using pf.
1536: <p>
1.247 jufi 1537: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1538:
1539: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1540: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1541:
1.247 jufi 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1543: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1544: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1545: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1546: </strong></font><br>
1547: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1548: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1549: their rotation.
1550: <p>
1551:
1.247 jufi 1552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1553: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1554: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1555: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1556: </strong></font><br>
1557: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1558: <p>
1.247 jufi 1559: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1560:
1.239 jufi 1561: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1562: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1563:
1.247 jufi 1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1565: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1566: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1567: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1568: </strong></font><br>
1569: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1570: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1571: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1572: <p>
1573:
1.247 jufi 1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1575: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1576: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1577: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1578: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1579: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1580: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1581: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1582: <p>
1.247 jufi 1583: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1584:
1.235 lebel 1585: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1586: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1587:
1.239 jufi 1588:
1.247 jufi 1589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1590: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1591: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1592: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1593: </strong></font><br>
1594: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1595: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1596: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1597: <p>
1.301 jose 1598:
1.247 jufi 1599: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1600:
1.228 horacio 1601: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1602: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1603:
1.247 jufi 1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1605: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1606: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1607: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1608: </strong></font><br>
1609: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1610: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1611: <p>
1612:
1.247 jufi 1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1614: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1615: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1616: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1617: </strong></font><br>
1618: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1619: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1620: <p>
1621:
1.247 jufi 1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1623: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1624: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1625: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1626: </strong></font><br>
1627: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1628: on the desktop of his parents.
1629: <p>
1630:
1.247 jufi 1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1632: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1633: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1634: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1635: </strong></font><br>
1636: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1637: using IPFilter.
1638:
1639: <p>
1640:
1.247 jufi 1641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1642: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1643: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1644: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1645: </strong></font><br>
1646: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1647: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1648: perspectives of the four OS.
1649: <br>
1650: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1651: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1652: <p>
1653:
1.247 jufi 1654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1655: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1656: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1657: software and security</a>,
1658: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1659: </strong></font><br>
1660:
1661: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1662: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1663: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1664: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1665: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1666: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1667: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1668: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1669: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1670: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1671: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1672: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1673: <p>
1.247 jufi 1674: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1675:
1.225 horacio 1676: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1677: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1678:
1.247 jufi 1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1680: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1681: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1682: Interview</a>,
1683: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1684: </strong></font><br>
1685:
1686: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1687: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1688: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1689: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1690: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1691: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1692: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1693: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1694: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1695: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1696: of choice.
1697: <p>
1.247 jufi 1698: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1699:
1700: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1701: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1702:
1.247 jufi 1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1704: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1705: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1706: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1707: </strong></font><br>
1708:
1709: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1710: <p>
1711:
1.247 jufi 1712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1713: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1714: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1715: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1716: </strong></font><br>
1717:
1718: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1719: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1720: <p>
1.247 jufi 1721: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1722:
1.218 horacio 1723: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1724: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1727: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1728: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1729: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1730: </strong></font><br>
1731:
1732: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1733: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1734: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1735: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1736: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1737: subjects. Worth a read.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740:
1.247 jufi 1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1742: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1743: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1744: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1745: </strong></font><br>
1746:
1747: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1748: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1749: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1750: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1751: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1752: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1753: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1754: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1755: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1756: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1757: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1758: on other operating systems.<br>
1759: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1760: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1761: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1762: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1763: <p>
1764:
1.247 jufi 1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1766: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1767: Operating System 2010</a>,
1768: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1769: </strong></font><br>
1770:
1771: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1772: covering the level of software integration into the core
1773: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1774: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1775: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1776: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1777: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1778: <p>
1779:
1.247 jufi 1780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1781: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1782: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1783: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1784: </strong></font><br>
1785:
1786: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1787: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1788: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1789: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1790: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1791: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1792: <p>
1.247 jufi 1793: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1794:
1.210 jufi 1795: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1796: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1797:
1.247 jufi 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1799: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1800: Already a Contender</a>,
1801: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1802: </strong></font><br>
1803:
1804: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1805: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1806: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1807: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1808: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1809: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1810: <p>
1811:
1.247 jufi 1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1813: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1814: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1815: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1816: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1817:
1.224 horacio 1818: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1819: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1820: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1821: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1822: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1823: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1824: <p>
1.247 jufi 1825: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1826:
1827: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1828: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1829:
1.247 jufi 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1831: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1832: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1833: Division</a>,
1834: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1835: </strong></font><br>
1836:
1837: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1838: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1839: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1840: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1841: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1842: investment</em>.<br>
1843: The implementation details can be seen on their
1844: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1845: <p>
1846:
1.247 jufi 1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1848: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1849: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1850: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1851: </strong></font><br>
1852:
1853: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1854: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1855: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1856: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1857: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1858: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1859: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1860: <p>
1861:
1862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1863: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1864: Thinking about Security</a>,
1865: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1866: </strong></font><br>
1867:
1868: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1869: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1870: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1871: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1872: to time.<br>
1873: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1874: system and just the most secure system.
1875: <p>
1876:
1.247 jufi 1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1878: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1879: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1880: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1881: </strong></font><br>
1882:
1883: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1884: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1885: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1886: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1887: choice:<br>
1888: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1889: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1890: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1891: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1892: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1893: network security devices and as such must be well
1894: armored."</em><br>
1895: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1896: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1897: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1898: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1899: <br>
1900: Bravo!
1901: <p>
1.247 jufi 1902: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1903:
1.207 ian 1904: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1905: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1908: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1909: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1910: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1911:
1.207 ian 1912: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1913: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1914: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1915: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1916: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1917: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1918: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1919: <p>
1.247 jufi 1920: </ul>
1.207 ian 1921:
1.194 jufi 1922: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1923: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1924:
1.247 jufi 1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1926: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1927: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1928: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1929: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1930:
1.240 miod 1931: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1932: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1933: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1934: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1935: <p>
1936:
1.247 jufi 1937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1938: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1939: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1940: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1941:
1942: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1943: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1947: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1948: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1949: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1950:
1951: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1952: <p>
1953:
1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1955: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1956: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1957: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1958: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1959:
1.240 miod 1960: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1961: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1962: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1963: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1964: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1965: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1966: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1967: <br>
1968: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1969: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1970: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1971: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1972: <p>
1973:
1.247 jufi 1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1975: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1976: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1977: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1978: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1979:
1.194 jufi 1980: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1981: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1982: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1983: <br>
1984: The new
1985: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1986: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1987: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1988: <p>
1.247 jufi 1989: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1990:
1.190 horacio 1991: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1992: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1993:
1.247 jufi 1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1995:
1996: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1997: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1998:
1.301 jose 1999:
1.191 jufi 2000: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2001: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2002:
2003: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2004: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2005:
1.212 horacio 2006: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2007: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2008: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2009:
1.211 horacio 2010: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2011: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2012: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2015: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2016:
1.247 jufi 2017: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2018: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2019:
1.212 horacio 2020: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2021: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2022: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2023:
2024: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2025: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2026:
2027: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2028: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2029:
1.301 jose 2030: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2031: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2032:
1.191 jufi 2033: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2034: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2035:
2036: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2037: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2038:
1.192 jufi 2039: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2040: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2041: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2042:
1.193 deraadt 2043: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2044: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2045: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2046:
1.247 jufi 2047: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2048: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2051: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2052: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2053:
1.213 horacio 2054: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2055: 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 2056: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2057:
1.190 horacio 2058: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2059: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2060: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2061: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2062: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2063: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2064: <p>
1.190 horacio 2065:
1.247 jufi 2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2067: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2068: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2069: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2070: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2071:
1.195 jufi 2072: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2073: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2074: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2075: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2076: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2077: <p>
2078:
1.247 jufi 2079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2080: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2081: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2082: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2083: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2084:
1.191 jufi 2085: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2086: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2087: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2088: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2092: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2093: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2094: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2095:
2096: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2097: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2098: <p>
1.247 jufi 2099: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2100:
1.191 jufi 2101:
1.186 jufi 2102: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2103: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2104:
1.247 jufi 2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2106: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2107: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2108: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2109: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2110:
1.188 jufi 2111: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2112: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2113: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2114: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2115: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2116: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2117: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2118: <p>
2119:
1.301 jose 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2121: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2122: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2123: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2124:
2125: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2126: <p>
1.191 jufi 2127:
1.247 jufi 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2129: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2130: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2131: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2132: </strong></font><br>
2133:
2134: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2135: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2136: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2137: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2138: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2139: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2140: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2141: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2142: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2143: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2144: familiar?
2145: <p>
1.247 jufi 2146: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2147:
1.178 louis 2148: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2149: <ul>
1.178 louis 2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2152: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2153: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2154: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2155: </strong></font><br>
2156:
2157: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2158: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2159: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2160: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2161: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2162: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2163: <p>
2164:
1.247 jufi 2165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2166: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2167: Open source under the hood</a>,
2168: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2169: </strong></font><br>
2170:
2171: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2172: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2173: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2174: <p>
2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2177: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2178: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2179: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2180: </strong></font><br>
2181:
2182: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2183: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2184: <p>
1.247 jufi 2185: </ul>
1.179 louis 2186:
1.174 louis 2187:
1.175 louis 2188: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2189: <ul>
1.175 louis 2190:
1.247 jufi 2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2192: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2193: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2194: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2195: </strong></font><br>
2196:
2197: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2198: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2199: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2200: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2201: <p>
2202:
1.247 jufi 2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2204: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2205: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2206: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2207: </strong></font><br>
2208:
2209: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2210: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2211: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2212: <p>
1.247 jufi 2213: </ul>
1.175 louis 2214:
1.176 louis 2215:
1.172 mickey 2216: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2217: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2218:
1.247 jufi 2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2220: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2221: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2222: </strong></font><br>
2223:
2224: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2225: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2226: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2227: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2228: <p>
2229:
1.247 jufi 2230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2231: <a
1.269 deraadt 2232: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2233: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2234: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2235: </strong></font><br>
2236:
2237: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2238: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2239: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2240: <p>
2241:
1.247 jufi 2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2243: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2244: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2245: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2246: </strong></font><br>
2247:
2248: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2249: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2250: <p>
2251:
1.247 jufi 2252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2253: <a
1.269 deraadt 2254: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2255: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2256: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2257: </strong></font><br>
2258:
2259: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2260: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2261: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2262: our own Theo de Raadt.
2263: <p>
2264:
1.247 jufi 2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2266: <a
1.269 deraadt 2267: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2268: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2269: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2270: </strong></font><br>
2271:
2272: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2273: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2274: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2275: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2276: shut down.]
2277: <p>
2278:
1.247 jufi 2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2280: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2281: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2282: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2283: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2284: </strong></font><br>
2285:
2286: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2287: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2288: <p>
1.247 jufi 2289: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2290:
1.161 louis 2291: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2292: <ul>
1.161 louis 2293:
1.247 jufi 2294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2295: <a
1.269 deraadt 2296: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2297: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2298: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2299: </strong></font><br>
2300:
2301: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2302: by John Wolley
2303: <p>
2304:
1.247 jufi 2305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2306: <a
1.269 deraadt 2307: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2308: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2309: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2310: </strong></font><br>
2311:
2312: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2313: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2314: OpenBSD).
2315: <p>
2316:
1.247 jufi 2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2318: <a
1.247 jufi 2319: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2320: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2321: </strong></font><br>
2322:
2323: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2324: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2325: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2326: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2327: and hindsight.
2328: <p>
2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2331: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2332: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2333: </strong></font><br>
2334:
2335: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2336: <p>
2337:
1.247 jufi 2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2339: <a
1.168 provos 2340: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2341: December 7, 2000
2342: </strong></font><br>
2343:
2344: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2345: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2346: us explain.
2347: <p>
2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2350: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2351: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2352: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2353: December 6, 2000
2354: </strong></font><br>
2355:
2356: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2357: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2358: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2359: <p>
2360:
1.247 jufi 2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2362: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2363: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2364: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2365: </strong></font><br>
2366:
2367: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2368: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2369: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2370: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2371: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2372: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2373: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2374: <p>
2375:
2376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2377: <a
1.226 horacio 2378: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2379: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2380: </strong></font><br>
2381:
2382: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2383: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2384: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2385: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2386: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2387: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2388: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2389: <p>
1.162 millert 2390:
1.247 jufi 2391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2392: <a
1.161 louis 2393: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2394: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2395: </strong></font><br>
2396:
2397: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2398: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2399: <p>
2400:
1.247 jufi 2401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2402: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2403: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2404: </strong></font><br>
2405:
2406: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2407: <p>
2408:
2409:
1.247 jufi 2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2411: <a
1.226 horacio 2412: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2413: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2414: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2415: </strong></font><br>
2416:
2417: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2418: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2419: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2420: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2421: <p>
1.247 jufi 2422: </ul>
1.169 louis 2423:
1.158 louis 2424: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2425: <ul>
1.147 louis 2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2428: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2429: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2430: </strong></font><br>
2431:
2432: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2433: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2434: <p>
2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2437: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2438: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2439: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2440: </strong></font><br>
2441: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2442: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2443: <p>
2444:
1.247 jufi 2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2446: <a
2447: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2448: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2449: </strong></font><br>
2450:
2451: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2452: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2453: <p>
2454:
1.247 jufi 2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2456: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2457: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2458: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2459:
1.213 horacio 2460: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2461: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2462: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2463: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2464: <p>
1.215 horacio 2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2467: <a
2468: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2469: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2470: </strong></font><br>
2471:
2472: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2473: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2474: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2475: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2476: much of the attitude too).
2477: <p>
1.161 louis 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2480: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2481: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2482: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2483:
1.157 louis 2484: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2485: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2486: <p>
1.247 jufi 2487: </ul>
1.157 louis 2488:
2489: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2490: <ul>
1.157 louis 2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2493: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2494: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2495: </strong></font><br>
2496:
2497: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2498: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2499: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2500: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2501: <p>
2502:
1.247 jufi 2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2504: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2505: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2506: </strong></font><br>
2507:
2508: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2509: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2510: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2511: it because they love coding...
2512: <p>
2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2515: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2516: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2517: </strong></font><br>
2518:
2519: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2520: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2521: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2522: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2523: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2524: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2525: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2526: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2527: <p>
2528:
1.247 jufi 2529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2530: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2531: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2532: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2533: </strong></font><br>
2534:
2535: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2536: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2537: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2538: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2539: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2540: the pizza.
2541: <p>
2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2544: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2545: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2549: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2550: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2551: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2552: problems.
2553: <p>
2554:
1.247 jufi 2555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2556: <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 2557: </strong></font><br>
2558:
1.222 miod 2559: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2560: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2561: - whether they like it or not.
2562: <p>
2563:
1.247 jufi 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2565: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2566: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2567: </strong></font><br>
2568:
2569: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2570: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2571: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2572: <p>
1.148 aaron 2573:
1.247 jufi 2574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2575: <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 2576: </strong></font><br>
2577:
2578: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2579: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2580: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2581: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2582: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2583: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2584: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2585: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2586: <p>
2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2589: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2590: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2591: </strong></font><br>
2592:
2593: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2594: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2595: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2596: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2597: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2598: <p>
1.247 jufi 2599: </ul>
1.147 louis 2600:
1.138 louis 2601: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2602: <ul>
1.138 louis 2603:
1.247 jufi 2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2605: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2606: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2607: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2608: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2609: </strong></font><br>
2610:
1.227 horacio 2611: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2612: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2613: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2614: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2615: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2616: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2617: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2618: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2619: <p>
2620:
1.247 jufi 2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2622: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2623: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2624: </strong></font><br>
2625:
2626: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2627: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2628: groups, and even Linux.
2629: <p>
2630:
1.247 jufi 2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2632: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2633: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2634: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2635: </strong></font><br>
2636:
2637: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2638: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2639: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2640: library after installing the OS.
2641: <p>
2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2644: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2645: Sys Admin, September 2000
2646: </strong></font><br>
2647:
2648: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2649: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2650: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2651: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2652: (<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>,
2653: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2654: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2655: <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 2656: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2657: out of the system.
2658: <p>
2659:
1.247 jufi 2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2661: <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
2662: </strong></font><br>
2663:
2664: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2665: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2666: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2667: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2668: the IP filtering and address translation.
2669: <p>
1.301 jose 2670:
2671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2672: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2673: </strong></font><br>
2674:
2675: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2676: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2677: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2678: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2679: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2680: <p>
1.247 jufi 2681: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2682:
1.131 louis 2683: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2684: <ul>
1.131 louis 2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2687: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2688: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2689: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2690: </strong></font><br>
2691:
2692: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2693: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2694: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2695: <p>
2696:
1.247 jufi 2697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2698: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2699: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2700: </strong></font><br>
2701:
2702: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2703: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2704: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2705: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2706: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2707: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2708: note of"</i>.
2709: <p>
2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2712: <a
1.247 jufi 2713: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2714: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2715: </strong></font><br>
2716:
2717: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2718: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2719: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2720: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2721: <p>
2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2724: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2725: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2726: </strong></font><br>
2727:
2728: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2729: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2730: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2731: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2732: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2733: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2734: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2738: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2739: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2740: 2000
2741: </strong></font><br>
2742:
2743: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2744: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2745: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2746: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2747: against current industry practices.
2748: <p>
2749:
1.247 jufi 2750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2751: <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
2752: </strong></font><br>
2753:
2754: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2755: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2756: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2757: <p>
2758:
1.247 jufi 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2760: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2761: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2762: </strong></font><br>
2763:
2764: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2765: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2766: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2767: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2768: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2769: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2770: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2771: <p>
2772:
1.247 jufi 2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2774: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2775: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2776: </strong></font><br>
2777:
2778: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2779: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2780: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2781: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2782: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2783: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2784: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2785: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2786: <p>
1.247 jufi 2787: </ul>
1.131 louis 2788:
1.118 louis 2789: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2790: <ul>
1.118 louis 2791:
1.247 jufi 2792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2793: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2794: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2795: </strong></font><br>
2796:
2797: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2798: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2799: about time. The article mentions that
2800: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2801: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2802: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2803: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2804: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2805: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2806: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2807: <p>
2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2810: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2811: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2812: </strong></font><br>
2813:
2814: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2815: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2816: of OpenSSH.
2817: <p>
2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2820: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2821: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2822: </strong></font><br>
2823:
2824: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2825: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2826: bridging.
2827: <p>
2828:
1.247 jufi 2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2830: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2831: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2832: </strong></font><br>
2833:
1.121 deraadt 2834: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2835: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2836: <p>
2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2839: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2840: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2841: </strong></font><br>
2842:
2843: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2844: <p>
2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2847: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2848: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2849: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2850: </strong></font><br>
2851:
1.120 deraadt 2852: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2853: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2854: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2855: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2856: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2857: <p>
2858:
1.247 jufi 2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2860: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2861: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2862: </strong></font><br>
2863:
1.222 miod 2864: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2865: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2866: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2867: protocols and their quirks.
2868: <p>
2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2871: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2872: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2873: </strong></font><br>
2874:
2875: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2876: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2877: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2878: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2879: <p>
2880:
1.247 jufi 2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2882: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2883: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2884: </strong></font><br>
2885:
2886: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2887: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2888: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2889: <p>
2890:
1.247 jufi 2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2892: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2893: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2894: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2895: </strong></font><br>
2896:
2897: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2898: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2899: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2900: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2901: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2902: <p>
1.247 jufi 2903: </ul>
1.118 louis 2904:
1.104 louis 2905: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2906: <ul>
1.104 louis 2907:
1.247 jufi 2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2909: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2910: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2911: </strong></font><br>
2912:
2913: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2914: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2915: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2916: be a bit dry.
2917: <p>
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2920: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2921: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2922: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2923: </strong></font><br>
2924: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2925: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2926: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2927: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2928: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2929: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2930: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2931: <p>
2932:
1.247 jufi 2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2934: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2935: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2936: 2000
1.128 louis 2937: </strong></font><br>
2938:
2939: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2940: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2941: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2942: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2943: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2944: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2945: <p>
2946:
1.247 jufi 2947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2948: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2949: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2950: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2951:
2952: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2953: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2954: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2955: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2956: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2957: <p>
1.110 louis 2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2960: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2961: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2962: </strong></font><br>
2963:
2964: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2965: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2966: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2967: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2968: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2969: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2970: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2971: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2972: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2973: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2974: <p>
2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2977: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2978: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2979:
2980: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2981: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2982: <p>
1.108 louis 2983:
1.247 jufi 2984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2985: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2986: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2987: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2988:
2989: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2990: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2991: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2992: <p>
1.106 louis 2993:
1.247 jufi 2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2995: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2996: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2997: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2998:
2999: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3000: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3001: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3002: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3003: <p>
1.107 louis 3004:
1.247 jufi 3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3006: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3007: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3008: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3009:
3010: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3011: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3012: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3013: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3014: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3015: <p>
1.105 louis 3016:
1.247 jufi 3017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3018: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3019: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3020: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3021:
1.113 naddy 3022: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3023: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3024: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3025: <p>
1.104 louis 3026:
1.247 jufi 3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3028: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3029: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3030: </strong></font><br>
3031:
3032: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3033: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3034: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3035: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3036: <p>
1.301 jose 3037:
3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3039: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3040: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3041: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3042:
3043: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3044: hardware-supported cryptography.
3045: <p>
1.247 jufi 3046: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3047:
1.85 louis 3048: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3049: <ul>
1.85 louis 3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3052: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3053: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3054: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3055:
3056: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3057: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3058: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3059: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3060: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3061: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3062: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3063: <p>
1.99 louis 3064:
1.247 jufi 3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3066: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3067: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3068: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3069:
3070: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3071: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3072: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3073: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3074: <p>
1.100 louis 3075:
1.247 jufi 3076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3077: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3078: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3079: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3080:
3081: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3082: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3083: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3084: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3085: <p>
1.95 louis 3086:
1.247 jufi 3087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3088: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3089: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3090: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3091:
3092: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3093: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3094: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3095: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3096: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3097: <p>
1.92 louis 3098:
1.247 jufi 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3100: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3101: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3102: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3103:
3104: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3105: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3106: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3107: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3108: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3109: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3110: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3111: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3112: <p>
1.91 louis 3113:
1.247 jufi 3114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3115: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3116: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3117: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3118:
3119: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3120: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3121: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3122: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3123: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3124: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3125: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3126: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3127: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3128: <p>
1.90 louis 3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3131: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3132: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3133: </strong></font><br>
3134: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3135: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3136: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3137: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3138: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3139: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3140: <p>
3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3143: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3144: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3145: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3146:
1.113 naddy 3147: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3148: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3149: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3150: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3151: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3152: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3153: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3154: <p>
1.87 louis 3155:
1.247 jufi 3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3157: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3158: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3159: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3160:
3161: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3162: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3163: <p>
1.85 louis 3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3166: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3167: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3168: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3169:
3170: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3171: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3172: <p>
3173:
3174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3175: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3176: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3177: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3178:
3179: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3180: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3181: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3182: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3183: <p>
1.89 louis 3184:
1.247 jufi 3185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3186: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3187: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3188: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3189:
3190: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3191: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3192: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3193: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3194: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3195: </ul>
1.85 louis 3196:
1.78 deraadt 3197: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3198: <ul>
1.74 louis 3199:
1.247 jufi 3200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3201: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3202: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3203: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3204: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3205:
3206: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3207: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3208: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3209: <p>
1.83 louis 3210:
1.247 jufi 3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3212: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3213: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3214: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3215:
3216: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3217: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3218: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3219: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3220: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3221: <p>
1.93 louis 3222:
1.247 jufi 3223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3224: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3225: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3226: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3227: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3228:
1.83 louis 3229: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3230: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3231: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3232: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3233: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3234: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3235: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3236: <p>
1.82 aaron 3237:
1.247 jufi 3238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3239: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3240: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3242:
1.83 louis 3243: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3244: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3245: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3246: <p>
1.80 louis 3247:
1.247 jufi 3248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3249: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3250: Bad Press</a>,
3251: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3252: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3253:
3254: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3255: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3256: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3257: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3258: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3259: <p>
1.247 jufi 3260: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3261:
3262: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3263: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3264:
1.247 jufi 3265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3266: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3267: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3268: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3269: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3270:
3271: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3272: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3273: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3274: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3275: <p>
1.74 louis 3276:
1.247 jufi 3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3278: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3279: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3280: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3281:
1.219 horacio 3282: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3283: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3284: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3285: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3286: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3287: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3288: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3289: <p>
1.88 louis 3290:
1.247 jufi 3291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3292: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3293: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3294: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3295:
3296: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3297: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3298: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3299: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3300: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3301: <p>
1.81 louis 3302:
1.247 jufi 3303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3304: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3305: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3306: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3307:
3308: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3309: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3310: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3311: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3312: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3313: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3314: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3315: <p>
1.90 louis 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3318: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3319: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3321:
3322: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3323: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3324: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3325: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3326: <p>
1.247 jufi 3327: </ul>
1.71 louis 3328:
1.69 deraadt 3329: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3330: <ul>
1.70 louis 3331:
1.247 jufi 3332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3333: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3334: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3335: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3336:
3337: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3338: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3339: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3340: <p>
1.70 louis 3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3343: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3344: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3345: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3346:
3347: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3348: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3349: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3350: <p>
1.68 louis 3351:
1.247 jufi 3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3353: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3354: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3355: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3356: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3357:
1.111 jufi 3358: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3359: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3360: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3361: "secure by default" installation.
3362: <p>
1.64 louis 3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3365: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3366: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3367: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3368:
1.113 naddy 3369: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3370: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3371: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3372: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3373: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3374: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3375: <p>
1.66 louis 3376:
1.247 jufi 3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3378: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3379: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3380: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3381:
3382: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3383: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3384: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3385: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3386: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3387: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3388: <p>
1.83 louis 3389:
1.247 jufi 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3391: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3392: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3393: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3394:
3395: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3396: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3397: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3398: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3399: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3400: <p>
1.64 louis 3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3403: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3404: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3405: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3406:
3407: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3408: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3409: <p>
1.301 jose 3410:
3411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3412: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3413: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3414: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3415: </strong></font><br>
3416:
3417: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3418: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3419: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3420: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3421: Giving way to
3422: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3423: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3424: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3425: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3426: <p>
1.247 jufi 3427: </ul>
1.65 louis 3428:
1.69 deraadt 3429: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3430: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3431:
1.247 jufi 3432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3433: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3434: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3435: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3436:
3437: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3438: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3439: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3440: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3441: <p>
1.88 louis 3442:
1.247 jufi 3443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3444: <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 3445: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3446:
3447: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3448: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3449: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3450: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3451: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3452: <p>
1.60 louis 3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3455: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3456: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3457: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3458: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3459:
3460: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3461: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3462: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3463: <p>
1.58 louis 3464:
1.247 jufi 3465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3466: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3467: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3468:
3469: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3470: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3471: <p>
1.53 louis 3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3474: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3475: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3476: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3477:
3478: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3479: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3480: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3481: <p>
1.99 louis 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3484: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3485: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3486:
3487: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3488: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3489: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3490: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3491: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3494: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3495: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3496: </strong></font><br>
3497:
3498: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3499: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3500: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3501: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3502: <p>
3503:
1.247 jufi 3504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3505: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3506: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3507: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3508:
3509: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3510: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3511: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3512:
1.247 jufi 3513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3514: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3515: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3516:
3517: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3518: in
1.247 jufi 3519: <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 3520: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3521: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3522: <p>
1.53 louis 3523:
1.247 jufi 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3525: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3526: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3527: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3528: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3529:
1.58 louis 3530: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3531: <p>
1.301 jose 3532:
3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3534: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3535: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3536: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3537: Informacyjny, January 2000
3538: </strong></font><br>
3539:
3540: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3541: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3542: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3543: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3544: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3545: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3546: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3547: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3548: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3549: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3550: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3551: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3552: <p>
3553:
3554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3555: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3556: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3557: </strong></font><br>
3558:
3559: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3560: <p>
3561: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3562:
1.69 deraadt 3563: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3564: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3567: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3568: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3569: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3570: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3571:
1.58 louis 3572: Kurt Seifried
3573: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3574: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3575: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3576: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3577:
1.247 jufi 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3579: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3580: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3581: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3582:
3583: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3584: <p>
1.96 louis 3585:
1.247 jufi 3586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3587: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3588: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3589: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3590: </strong></font><br>
3591:
3592: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3593: <p>
3594:
3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3596: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3597: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3598: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3599:
3600: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3601: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3602: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3603: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3604: <p>
1.247 jufi 3605: </ul>
1.86 louis 3606:
1.69 deraadt 3607: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3608: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3611: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3612: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3613: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3614:
3615: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3616: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3617: <p>
1.61 louis 3618:
1.247 jufi 3619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3620: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3621: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3622: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3623: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3624:
3625: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3626: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3627: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3628: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3629: right -- or at least strives to".
3630: <p>
1.48 louis 3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3633: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3634: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3635: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3636: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3637: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3638: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3639: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3640: <p>
1.61 louis 3641:
1.247 jufi 3642: <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 3643: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3644: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3645:
3646: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3647: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3648: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3649: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3650: <p>
1.46 louis 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3653: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3654: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3655: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3656:
3657: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3658: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3659: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3662: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3663: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3664: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3665:
3666: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3667: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3668: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3669: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3670: <p>
1.247 jufi 3671: </ul>
1.70 louis 3672:
1.69 deraadt 3673: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3674: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3677: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3678: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3679: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3680: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3681:
3682: Kurt Seifried
3683: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3684: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3685: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3686: <p>
1.44 philen 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <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 3689: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3690: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3691:
3692: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3693: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <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 3696: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3697: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3698:
3699: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3700: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3701:
1.247 jufi 3702: <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 3703: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3704: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3705:
3706: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3707: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3708: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3709: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3710: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <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 3713: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3714: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3715:
1.36 louis 3716: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3717: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3718:
1.247 jufi 3719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3720: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3721: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3722: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3723:
3724: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3725: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3726: </ul>
1.38 louis 3727:
1.69 deraadt 3728: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3729: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <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 3732: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3733: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3734:
3735: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3736: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3737: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3738:
1.113 naddy 3739: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3740: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3741: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3742: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3743:
3744: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3745: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3746: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3747: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3748: <blockquote>
3749: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3750: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3751: <br>
3752: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3753: </code>
3754: </blockquote>
3755: <p>
3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3758: <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 3759: <p>
3760:
3761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3762: <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 3763: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3764:
3765: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3766: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3767: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3768: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3769:
1.247 jufi 3770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3771: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3772: Sept. 28, 1999
3773: </strong></font><br>
3774:
3775: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3776: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3777: translating and reprinting articles from
3778: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3779: <p>
3780:
3781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3782: <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 3783: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3784:
3785: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3786: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3787: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3788: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3789: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3790: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3791: <p>
1.19 louis 3792:
1.113 naddy 3793: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3794: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3795: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3796:
3797: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3798: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3799: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3800: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3801: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3802: <p>
1.16 louis 3803:
1.247 jufi 3804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3805: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3806: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3807: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3808:
1.57 louis 3809: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3810: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3811: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3812: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3815: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3816: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3817: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3818:
1.113 naddy 3819: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3822: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3823: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3824: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3825:
1.23 louis 3826: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3827: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3828: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3829: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3830: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3831: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3834: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3835: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3836: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3837:
1.199 pvalchev 3838: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3839: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3840: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3841: installation.
1.113 naddy 3842: <p>
1.47 louis 3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3845: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3846: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3847: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3848:
1.301 jose 3849: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3850: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3851: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.57 louis 3853:
1.69 deraadt 3854: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3858: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3859: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3860: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3861:
3862: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3863: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3864: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3865: <p>
1.12 louis 3866:
1.247 jufi 3867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3868: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3869: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3870: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3871:
3872: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3873: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3874: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3875: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3876: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3877: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3878: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3879: <p>
1.247 jufi 3880: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3881:
1.69 deraadt 3882: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3883: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3886: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3887: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3888:
3889: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3890: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3891: available."
1.113 naddy 3892: <p>
1.301 jose 3893:
3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3895: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3896: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3897: </strong></font><br>
3898:
3899: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3900: <p>
1.247 jufi 3901: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3902:
1.69 deraadt 3903: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3904: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3907: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3908: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3909:
3910: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3911: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3912: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3913: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3914: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3915: <p>
1.33 louis 3916:
1.247 jufi 3917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3918: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3919: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3920: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3921:
1.113 naddy 3922: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3923: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3924: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3925: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3926: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3927: <p>
1.247 jufi 3928: </ul>
1.57 louis 3929:
1.69 deraadt 3930: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3931: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3934: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3935: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3936: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3937:
3938: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3939: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3940: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3941:
1.247 jufi 3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3943: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3944: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3945: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3946: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3947:
3948: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3949: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3952: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3953:
1.113 naddy 3954: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3957: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3958: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3959: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3960:
3961: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3962: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3963: </ul>
1.23 louis 3964:
1.69 deraadt 3965: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3966: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3967:
1.247 jufi 3968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3969: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3970: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3971:
3972: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3973: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3974: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3975:
1.247 jufi 3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3977: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3978: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3979: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3980:
3981: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3982: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3983: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3984: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3985: </ul>
1.57 louis 3986:
1.69 deraadt 3987: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3988: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3991: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3992: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3993: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3994:
3995: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3996: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3997: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3998: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3999: <p>
1.15 louis 4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4002: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4003: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4004: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4005:
4006: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4007: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4008: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4009: columns."
1.113 naddy 4010: <p>
1.247 jufi 4011: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4012:
1.69 deraadt 4013: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4014: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4015:
1.247 jufi 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4017: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4018: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4019: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4020:
4021: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4022: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4023:
1.113 naddy 4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4025: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4026: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4027:
4028: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4029: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4030: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4031: </ul>
1.57 louis 4032:
1.69 deraadt 4033: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4034: <ul>
1.301 jose 4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4036: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4037: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4038: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4039:
4040: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4041: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4042: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4043: <p>
4044:
4045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4046: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4047: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4048: Nov 13, 1998 and
4049: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4050: Datateknik</a>,
4051: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4052:
1.380 saad 4053: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4054: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4055: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4056: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4057: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4058:
1.113 naddy 4059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4060: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4061: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4062: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4063:
1.222 miod 4064: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4065: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4066: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4067: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4068: <p>
1.247 jufi 4069: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4070:
1.69 deraadt 4071: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4072: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4073:
1.247 jufi 4074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4075: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4076: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4077:
1.69 deraadt 4078: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4079: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4080: <p>
1.247 jufi 4081: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4082:
1.69 deraadt 4083: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4084: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4085:
1.247 jufi 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4087: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4088: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4089: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4090:
1.383 jcs 4091: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4092: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4093: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4096: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4097: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4098: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4099: <p>
1.247 jufi 4100: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4101:
1.69 deraadt 4102: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4103: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4104:
1.247 jufi 4105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4106: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4107: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4108: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4109: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4110: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4111:
4112: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4113: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4114: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4115: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4116: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4117: <p>
1.247 jufi 4118: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4119:
4120: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4121: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4122:
1.247 jufi 4123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4124: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4125: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4126:
1.69 deraadt 4127: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4128: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4129: <p>
1.112 naddy 4130:
1.247 jufi 4131: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4132: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4133:
1.292 camield 4134: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4135: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4136: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.397 ! otto 4137: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.396 2004/07/03 23:30:32 henning Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4138:
4139: </body>
4140: </html>
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