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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.396 henning 19: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.398 ! henning 22: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
! 23: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
! 24: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
! 27: <p>
! 28: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 29: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
30: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
31: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
32: </strong></font><br>
33: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
34: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
35: <p>
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 37: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
38: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
39: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
40: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
41: <p>
42: </ul>
43:
1.393 david 44: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
45: <ul>
46: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 47: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
48: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
49: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
50: </strong></font><br>
51: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
52: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
53: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
54: on inserting large number of SQL records.
55: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
56: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
57: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 61: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
62: Secure by Default</a>,
63: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
64: </strong></font><br>
65: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
66: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
70: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
71: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
72: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
73: </strong></font><br>
74: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
75: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
76: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
77: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
78: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
79: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
83: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
84: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
85: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
86: </strong></font><br>
87: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
88: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
89: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
93: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
94: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
95: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
96: </strong></font><br>
97: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
98: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
99: <p>
100: </ul>
101:
1.388 mcbride 102: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
103: <ul>
1.394 jolan 104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
106: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
107: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
108: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
109: </strong></font><br>
110: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
111: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
112: available for sparc64.
113: <p>
114:
1.390 beck 115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 116: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
117: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
118: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
119: </strong></font><br>
120: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
121: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
122: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
123: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 127: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
128: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 129: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 130: </strong></font><br>
131: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
132: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
133: it does: CARP provides sharing
134: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
135: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
136: detail to get you started using it.
137: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
138: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
139: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
140: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
141: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
142: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
143: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 144: <p>
1.391 ian 145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 147: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 148: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
149: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 150: </strong></font><br>
151: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 152: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 153: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 154: <p>
1.388 mcbride 155:
156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
157: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
158: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 159: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 160: </strong></font><br>
161: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
162: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
163: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
164: unencumbered by patents.
165: <p>
166: </ul>
167:
1.378 henning 168: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
169: <ul>
1.384 jose 170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 172: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
173: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
174: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
175: </strong></font><br>
176: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
177: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
178: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
179: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
180: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
181: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
182: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
183: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
184: in the page tables."
185: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
186: <p>
187:
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 189: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
190: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
191: </strong></font><br>
192: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
193: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
194: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
195: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 196: <p>
1.384 jose 197:
1.378 henning 198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 199: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
200: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 201: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
202: </strong></font><br>
203: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
204: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
205: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
206: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
207: (quote:
208: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
209: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 210: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 211: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
212: the other developers for their work on the system.
213: <p>
214:
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 216: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
217: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
218: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 219: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 220: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
221: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
222: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
223: too.
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 227: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
228: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 229: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 230: OpenBSD source code using
231: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
232: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
233: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
234: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
235: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
236: <p>
237: </ul>
238:
1.374 jose 239: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
240: <ul>
241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 242: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 243: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
244: </strong></font><br>
245: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
246: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
247: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
248: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
249: it."
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 253: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
254: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
255: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
256: </strong></font><br/>
257: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
258: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
259: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
260: <p>
261: </ul>
262:
1.369 ian 263: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
264: <ul>
265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 266: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
267: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
268: </strong></font><br/>
269: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
270: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
271: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
272: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
273: <p>
274:
275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 276: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
277: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
278: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
279: </strong></font><br/>
280: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
281: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
282: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
283: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
284: form factor.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
288: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
289: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
290: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
291: Features</a>,
292: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
293: </strong></font><br/>
294: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
295: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
296: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
297: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
298: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
299: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
300: <p>
301: This article can also be found online at:
302: <ul>
303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 304: <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 305: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
306: </strong></font>
307: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
308: </ul>
309: <p>
1.392 david 310:
1.371 jose 311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 312: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
313: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 314: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
315: </strong></font><br/>
316: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
317: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
318: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 319: <p>
1.371 jose 320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 322: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 323: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 324: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 325: </strong></font><br/>
326: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
327: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
328: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
329: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
330: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
331: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
332: and its history with OpenBSD.
333: </ul>
334:
1.368 henning 335: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
336: <ul>
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 338: [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 339: </strong></font><br>
340: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
341: </ul>
342:
1.364 jose 343: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
344: <ul>
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 346: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
347: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
348: UNIX Review,
349: July, 2003.
350: </strong></font><br>
351: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
352: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
353: who want more information.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 357: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
358: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
359: Government Computer News,
360: July 22, 2003.
361: </strong></font><br>
362: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
363: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
364: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
365: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
369: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
370: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
371: SANS Institute,
372: July 22, 2003.
373: </strong></font><br>
374: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 375: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 376: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
377: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
378: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
379: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
380: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
381: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
382: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
383: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
384: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
385: <p>
386:
387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 388: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
389: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
390: OnLamp.com,
391: July 17, 2003.
392: </strong></font><br>
393: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
394: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
395: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
396: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
397: have been working on.
398:
399: </ul>
400:
1.356 jose 401: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 402: <ul>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 405: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
406: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
407: UNIX Review,
408: June, 2003.
409: </strong></font><br>
410: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
411: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
412: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
413: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 417: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
418: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
419: eWeek,
420: June 23, 2003.
421: </strong></font><br>
422: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
423: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
424: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
425: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
426: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
427: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 431: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
432: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
433: Software Development Online,
434: June, 2003.
435: </strong></font><br>
436: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
437: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
438: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
439: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
440: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
441: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
442: current activities.
443: <p>
444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 446: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
447: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 448: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
449: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
450: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
451: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
452: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
453: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
454: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
455: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 456: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 457: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
458: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
459: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
460: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
461: decisions.
462: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
463: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
464: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
465: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 466: <p>
467:
468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 469: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
470: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
471: Page 58, eWeek,
472: June 2, 2003.
473: </strong></font><br>
474: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
475: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
476: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
477: been addressed in -current.
478: <p>
479:
1.356 jose 480: </ul>
481:
482: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
483: <ul>
484:
1.355 jose 485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 486: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
487: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
488: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
489: </strong></font><br>
490: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
491: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
492: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
493: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
494: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
495: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
496: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 500: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
501: Beyond Linux</a>,
502: InfoWorld,
503: May 23, 2003.
504: </strong></font><br>
505: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
506: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
507: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
508: compared to the GPL.
509: <p>
510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 512: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
513: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
514: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 515: May 17, 2003.
516: </strong></font><br>
517: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
518: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
519: the business section and half of another page inside
520: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
521: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
522: in talking about the project's history and goals.
523: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
524: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
525: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
526: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 527: <br>
528: This article can also be found online at:
529: <ul>
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
531: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
532: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
533: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
534: May 17, 2003
535: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 536: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
538: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
539: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
540: Montreal Gazette,
541: May 21, 2003
542: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 543: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 544: <p>
1.346 ian 545:
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 547: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 548: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 549: May 7, 2003.
550: </strong></font><br>
551: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
552: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
553: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
554: <p>
555:
556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 557: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
558: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
559: OsOpinion,
560: May 6, 2003.
561: </strong></font><br>
562: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
563: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
564: <br>
565: This article can also be found online at:
566: <ul>
567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
568: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
569: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
570: NewsFactor Network.
571: </strong></font>
572: </ul>
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 576: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 577: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
578: ITBusiness,
579: May 2, 2003.
580: </strong></font><br>
581: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
582: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
583: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
584: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
585: <p>
586:
587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 588: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
589: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
590: InfoWorld,
591: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 592: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 593: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
594: <br>
595: This article can also be found online at:
596: <ul>
597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
598: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
599: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
600: IDG Singapore.
601: </strong></font>
602: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 603: <p>
604:
1.339 jose 605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
606: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
607: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 608: ZDNet,
609: May 1, 2003.
610: </strong></font><br>
611: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 612: someone using parts from previous articles.
613: <br>
1.341 deraadt 614: This article can also be found online at:
615: <ul>
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
617: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
618: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
619: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 620: </strong></font>
621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
622: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
623: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
624: CNET News.com.
625: </strong></font>
626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
627: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
628: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
629: ZDNet UK.
630: </strong></font>
631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
632: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
633: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
634: Help Net Security, Croatia.
635: </strong></font>
636: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 637: <p>
1.339 jose 638:
1.341 deraadt 639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 640: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 641: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
642: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
643: May 1, 2003.
644: </strong></font><br>
645: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
646: that have been added
647: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
648: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
649: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 650: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 651: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
652: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
653: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 654: <p>
655:
656: </ul>
657:
1.253 ian 658: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
659: <ul>
1.255 ian 660:
1.260 ian 661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 662: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 663: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
664: TechRepublic,
665: April 28, 2003.
666: </strong></font><br>
667: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
668: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 669: work.<br>
670: Can also be found online at:
671: <ul>
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
673: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
674: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
675: ZDNet UK.
676: </strong></font>
677: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 681: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
682: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
683: IDG,
684: April 24, 2003.
685: </strong></font><br>
686: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
687: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
688: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
689: Can also be found online at:
690: <ul>
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
692: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
693: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 694: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 695: </strong></font>
696: </ul>
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
700: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 701: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 702: Slate,
703: April 24, 2003.
704: </strong></font><br>
705: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
706: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
707: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
708: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 712: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
713: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
714: April 24, 2003.
715: </strong></font><br>
716: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
717: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
718: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
719: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
720: <p>
721:
722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 723: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
724: April 24, 2003.
725: </strong></font><br>
726: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
727: the free software community".
728: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
729: other articles.
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 733: <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 734: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
735: </strong></font><br>
736: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
737: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
738: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
739: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
740: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
741: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
742: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
743: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
744: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
745: <br/>
746: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
747: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
748: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
749: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 750: <br>
751: Can also be found online at:
752: <ul>
753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
754: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
755: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
756: Common Dreams NewsCenter
757: </strong></font>
758: </ul>
1.324 ian 759: <p>
760:
761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
762: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
763: Wired, April 24, 2003.
764: </strong></font><br>
765: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
766: article above.
767: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
768: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
769: wasting them."
1.332 ian 770: <br>
771: Can also be found online at:
772: <ul>
773: <li>
774: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
775: </strong></font>
776: </ul>
1.324 ian 777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 780: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
781: </strong></font><br>
782: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
783: <p>
784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 786: <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.
787: </strong></font><br>
788: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
789: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 793: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
794: April 23, 2003.
795: </strong></font><br>
796: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 800: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 801: April 22, 2003.
802: </strong></font><br>
803: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 807: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
808: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
809: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 810: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 811: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
812: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
813: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
814: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
815: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
816: Can also be found online at:
817: <ul>
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
819: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 820: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
821: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 822: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
824: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 825: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
826: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 827: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 828: </ul>
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 832: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
833: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 834: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 835: </strong></font><br>
836: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 837: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
838: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
839: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
840: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
841: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
842: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 843: <p>
844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 846: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
847: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 848: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
849: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 850: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
851: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
852: at UPenn and DARPA.
853: <p>
854:
855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 856: [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,
857: France
1.315 deraadt 858: April 18, 2003.
859: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 860: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 861: <p>
862:
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 864: [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 865: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 866: </strong></font><br>
867: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 871: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
872: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
873: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 874: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 875: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
876: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
877: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 881: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
882: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 883: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 884: </strong></font><br>
885: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
886: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
887: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 888: American century.
1.267 deraadt 889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 892: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
893: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 894: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 895: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 896: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
897: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
898: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
899: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
900: Can also be found online at:
901: <ul>
902: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
903: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 904: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 905: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 906: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 910: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 911: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 912: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 913: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 914: </strong></font><br>
915: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 916: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
917: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
918: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
919: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 920:
921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
922: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
923: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
924: New York Times.
925: </strong></font>(free registration required)
926:
1.273 deraadt 927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
928: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 929: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 930: ABC News.
931: </strong></font>
932:
933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 934: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 935: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 936: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 937: </strong></font>
938:
939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 940: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 941: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 942: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 943: </strong></font>
944:
945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 946: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
947: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 948: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 949: </strong></font>
950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 952: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 953: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 954: Times Daily, AL.
955: </strong></font>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
958: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
959: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
960: Boston.com, MA.
961: </strong></font>
962:
963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 964: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 965: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 966: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
967: </strong></font>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 970: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
971: [Article was pulled]</a>
972: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 973: </strong></font>
974:
975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
976: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
977: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
978: Infoshop News.
979: </strong></font>
980:
981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
982: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
983: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
984: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
985: </strong></font>
986:
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 988: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
989: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
990: Raleigh News, NC.
991: </strong></font>
992:
993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 994: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 995: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
996: Napa News, CA.
997: </strong></font>
998:
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1000: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1001: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1002: NEPA News, PA.
1003: </strong></font>
1004:
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1006: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1007: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1008: Wired News.
1009: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1010: <br>
1011: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1012: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1013: [JAPANESE]
1014: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1015: Wired News Japan</a>
1016: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1017:
1.271 deraadt 1018: </ul>
1019: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1020: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1021: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1022: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1023: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1024: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1025: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1026: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1027: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1028: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1029: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1030: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1031: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1032: <p>
1033: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1036: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1037: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1038: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1039: </strong></font>
1040:
1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1042: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1043: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1044: Miami Herald, FL.
1045: </strong></font>
1046:
1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1048: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1049: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1050: </strong></font>
1051:
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1053: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1054: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1055: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1056: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1057:
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1059: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1060: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1061: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1062: ABC News.
1063: </strong></font>
1064:
1.276 deraadt 1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1066: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1067: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1068: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1069: </strong></font>
1070:
1.286 dhartmei 1071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1072: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1073: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1074: Wilmington Star, NC.
1075: </strong></font>
1076:
1.300 jose 1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1078: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1079: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1080: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1081: </strong></font>
1082:
1.309 jose 1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1084: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1085: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1086: Globe Technology.
1087: </strong></font>
1088:
1.263 deraadt 1089: </ul>
1.262 beck 1090: <p>
1091:
1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1093: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1094: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1095: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1096: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1097: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1098: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1099: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1100: <p>
1101:
1102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1103: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1104: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1105: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1106: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1107: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1108: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1109: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1110: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1111: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1112: and simply restates other press reports.
1113: <p>
1114:
1115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1116: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1117: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1118: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1119: </strong></font><br>
1120: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1124: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1125: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1126: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1127: </strong></font><br>
1128: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1129: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1130: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1134: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1135: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1136: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1137: April 17, 2003.
1138: </strong></font><br>
1139: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1140: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1141: Tech Anthems</a>
1142: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1143: 4 so far.
1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1147: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1148: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1149: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1150: </strong></font><br>
1151: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1152: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1153: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1154: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1155: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1156: Goes on to say:
1157: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1158: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1159: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1160: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1161: This article is also found online at:
1162: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1164: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1165: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1166: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1167: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1169: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1170: ZDnet</a>,
1171: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1172: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1174: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1175: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1176: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1177: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1178: </ul>
1.260 ian 1179: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1180:
1.260 ian 1181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1182: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1183: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1184: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1185: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1186: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1187: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1188: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1189: without notice or justification.
1190: <p>
1191:
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1193: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1194: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1195: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1196: </strong></font><br>
1197: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1198: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1199: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1200: effective today, without any warning..."
1201: <p>
1.257 ian 1202:
1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1204: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1205: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1206: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1207: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1208: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1209: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1210: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1211: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1212: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1216: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1217: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1218: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1219: </strong></font><br>
1220: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1221: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1222: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1223: quoting two of them:
1224: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1225: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1226: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1227: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1228: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1229: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1230: <p>
1231:
1.255 ian 1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1233: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1234: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1235: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1236: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1237: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1241: [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 1242: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1243: </strong></font><br>
1244: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1248: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1249: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1250: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1251: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1252: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1253: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1254: security experts for more than three decades."
1255: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1256: <p>
1.261 ian 1257:
1.254 drahn 1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1259: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1260: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1261: </strong></font><br>
1262: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1263: <p>
1264:
1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1266: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1267: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1268: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1269: </strong></font><br>
1270: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1271: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1272: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1276: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1277: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1278: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1279: </strong></font><br>
1280: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1281: from US DARPA.
1282: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1283: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1284: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1285: the BSD license.
1286: <p>
1287: </ul>
1288:
1.251 ian 1289: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1290: <ul>
1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1293: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1294: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1295: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1296: </strong></font><br>
1297:
1298: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1299: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1300: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1301: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1302: <p>
1303:
1304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1305: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1306: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1307: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1308: </strong></font><br>
1309: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1310: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1311: Mentions
1312: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1313: and
1314: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1315: programs.
1316: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1317: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1318: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1319: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1320: <p>
1.325 ian 1321: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1322: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1323:
1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1325: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1326: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1327: </strong></font><br>
1328: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1329: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1330: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1331: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1332: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1333: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1334: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1335: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1336: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1337: put into service."
1338: <p>
1339: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1340: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1341: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1342: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1343: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1344: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1345: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1346: computers with security features."
1347: <p>
1.329 ian 1348:
1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1350: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1351: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1352: Slate,
1353: March 3, 2003.
1354: </strong></font><br>
1355: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1356: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1357: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1358: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1359: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1360: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1361: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1362: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1363: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1364: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1365: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1366: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1367: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1368: of more secure open-source solutions like
1369: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1370: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1371: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1372: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1373: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1374: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1375: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1376: the Beltway."
1377: <p>
1.251 ian 1378: </ul>
1379:
1.249 jufi 1380: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1381: <ul>
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1383: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1384: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1385: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1388: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1389: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1390: <p>
1.334 ian 1391:
1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1393: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1394: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1395: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1396: </strong></font><br>
1397: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1398: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1399: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1400: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1401: "... the hypothetical question ...
1402: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1403: <br>
1404: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1405: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1406: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1407: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1408: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1409: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1410: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1411: support network security.
1412: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1413: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1414: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1415: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1416: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1417: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1418: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1419: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1420: <br>
1421: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1422: <p>
1423:
1.249 jufi 1424: </ul>
1425:
1.246 jufi 1426: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1427: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1428:
1.247 jufi 1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1430: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1431: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1432: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1433: </strong></font><br>
1434: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1435: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1436: <p>
1437:
1.247 jufi 1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1439: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1440: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1441: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1444: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1445: <p>
1446:
1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1448: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1449: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1450: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1451: </strong></font><br>
1452: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1453: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1454: <p>
1.247 jufi 1455: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1456:
1.244 jufi 1457: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1458: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1459:
1.247 jufi 1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1461: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1462: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1463: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1464: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1465: </strong></font><br>
1466: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1467: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1468: md5 digests.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.247 jufi 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1472: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1473: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1474: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1477: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1478: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1479: right the first time."
1480: <p>
1.247 jufi 1481: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1482:
1483:
1484: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1485: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1486:
1.247 jufi 1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1488: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1489: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1490: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1491: </strong></font><br>
1492: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1493: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1494: part 6</a>.
1495: <p>
1496:
1.247 jufi 1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1498: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1499: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1500: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1501: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1502: </strong></font><br>
1503: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1504: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1505: <p>
1.301 jose 1506:
1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1508: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1509: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1510: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1511: </strong></font><br>
1512:
1513: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1514: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1515: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1516: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1517: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1518: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1519: <i>Here's the
1520: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1521: <p>
1.247 jufi 1522: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1523:
1524: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1525: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1526:
1.247 jufi 1527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1528: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1529: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1530: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1531: </strong></font><br>
1532: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1533: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1534: <p>
1535:
1.247 jufi 1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1537: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1538: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1539: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1540: </strong></font><br>
1541: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1542: this time using pf.
1543: <p>
1.247 jufi 1544: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1545:
1546: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1547: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1548:
1.247 jufi 1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1550: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1551: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1552: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1553: </strong></font><br>
1554: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1555: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1556: their rotation.
1557: <p>
1558:
1.247 jufi 1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1560: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1561: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1562: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1563: </strong></font><br>
1564: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1565: <p>
1.247 jufi 1566: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1567:
1.239 jufi 1568: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1569: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1570:
1.247 jufi 1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1572: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1573: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1574: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1575: </strong></font><br>
1576: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1577: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1578: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1579: <p>
1580:
1.247 jufi 1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1582: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1583: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1584: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1585: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1586: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1587: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1588: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1589: <p>
1.247 jufi 1590: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1591:
1.235 lebel 1592: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1593: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1594:
1.239 jufi 1595:
1.247 jufi 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1597: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1598: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1599: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1600: </strong></font><br>
1601: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1602: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1603: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1604: <p>
1.301 jose 1605:
1.247 jufi 1606: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1607:
1.228 horacio 1608: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1609: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1610:
1.247 jufi 1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1612: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1613: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1614: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1615: </strong></font><br>
1616: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1617: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1618: <p>
1619:
1.247 jufi 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1621: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1622: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1623: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1624: </strong></font><br>
1625: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1626: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1627: <p>
1628:
1.247 jufi 1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1630: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1631: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1632: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1633: </strong></font><br>
1634: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1635: on the desktop of his parents.
1636: <p>
1637:
1.247 jufi 1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1639: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1640: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1641: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1642: </strong></font><br>
1643: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1644: using IPFilter.
1645:
1646: <p>
1647:
1.247 jufi 1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1649: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1650: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1651: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1652: </strong></font><br>
1653: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1654: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1655: perspectives of the four OS.
1656: <br>
1657: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1658: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1659: <p>
1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1662: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1663: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1664: software and security</a>,
1665: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1666: </strong></font><br>
1667:
1668: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1669: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1670: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1671: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1672: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1673: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1674: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1675: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1676: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1677: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1678: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1679: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1680: <p>
1.247 jufi 1681: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1682:
1.225 horacio 1683: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1684: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1685:
1.247 jufi 1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1687: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1688: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1689: Interview</a>,
1690: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1691: </strong></font><br>
1692:
1693: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1694: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1695: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1696: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1697: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1698: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1699: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1700: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1701: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1702: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1703: of choice.
1704: <p>
1.247 jufi 1705: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1706:
1707: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1708: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1711: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1712: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1713: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1714: </strong></font><br>
1715:
1716: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1717: <p>
1718:
1.247 jufi 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1720: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1721: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1722: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1723: </strong></font><br>
1724:
1725: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1726: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1727: <p>
1.247 jufi 1728: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1729:
1.218 horacio 1730: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1731: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1732:
1.247 jufi 1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1734: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1735: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1736: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1737: </strong></font><br>
1738:
1739: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1740: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1741: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1742: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1743: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1744: subjects. Worth a read.
1745: <p>
1746:
1747:
1.247 jufi 1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1749: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1750: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1751: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1752: </strong></font><br>
1753:
1754: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1755: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1756: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1757: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1758: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1759: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1760: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1761: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1762: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1763: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1764: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1765: on other operating systems.<br>
1766: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1767: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1768: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1769: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1770: <p>
1771:
1.247 jufi 1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1773: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1774: Operating System 2010</a>,
1775: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1776: </strong></font><br>
1777:
1778: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1779: covering the level of software integration into the core
1780: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1781: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1782: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1783: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1784: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1785: <p>
1786:
1.247 jufi 1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1788: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1789: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1790: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1791: </strong></font><br>
1792:
1793: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1794: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1795: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1796: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1797: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1798: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1799: <p>
1.247 jufi 1800: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1801:
1.210 jufi 1802: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1803: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1804:
1.247 jufi 1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1806: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1807: Already a Contender</a>,
1808: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1809: </strong></font><br>
1810:
1811: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1812: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1813: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1814: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1815: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1816: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1817: <p>
1818:
1.247 jufi 1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1820: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1821: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1822: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1823: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1824:
1.224 horacio 1825: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1826: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1827: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1828: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1829: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1830: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1831: <p>
1.247 jufi 1832: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1833:
1834: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1835: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1836:
1.247 jufi 1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1838: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1839: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1840: Division</a>,
1841: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1842: </strong></font><br>
1843:
1844: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1845: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1846: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1847: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1848: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1849: investment</em>.<br>
1850: The implementation details can be seen on their
1851: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1852: <p>
1853:
1.247 jufi 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1855: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1856: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1857: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1861: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1862: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1863: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1864: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1865: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1866: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1870: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1871: Thinking about Security</a>,
1872: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1873: </strong></font><br>
1874:
1875: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1876: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1877: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1878: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1879: to time.<br>
1880: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1881: system and just the most secure system.
1882: <p>
1883:
1.247 jufi 1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1885: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1886: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1887: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1888: </strong></font><br>
1889:
1890: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1891: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1892: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1893: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1894: choice:<br>
1895: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1896: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1897: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1898: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1899: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1900: network security devices and as such must be well
1901: armored."</em><br>
1902: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1903: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1904: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1905: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1906: <br>
1907: Bravo!
1908: <p>
1.247 jufi 1909: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1910:
1.207 ian 1911: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1912: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1913:
1.247 jufi 1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1915: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1916: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1917: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1918:
1.207 ian 1919: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1920: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1921: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1922: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1923: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1924: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1925: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1926: <p>
1.247 jufi 1927: </ul>
1.207 ian 1928:
1.194 jufi 1929: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1930: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1931:
1.247 jufi 1932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1933: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1934: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1935: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1936: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1937:
1.240 miod 1938: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1939: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1940: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1941: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1942: <p>
1943:
1.247 jufi 1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1945: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1946: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1947: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1950: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1951: <p>
1952:
1953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1954: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1955: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1956: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1957:
1958: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1959: <p>
1960:
1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1962: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1963: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1964: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1965: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1966:
1.240 miod 1967: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1968: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1969: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1970: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1971: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1972: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1973: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1974: <br>
1975: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1976: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1977: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1978: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1979: <p>
1980:
1.247 jufi 1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1982: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1983: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1984: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1985: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1986:
1.194 jufi 1987: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1988: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1989: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1990: <br>
1991: The new
1992: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1993: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1994: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1995: <p>
1.247 jufi 1996: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1997:
1.190 horacio 1998: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1999: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2002:
2003: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2004: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2005:
1.301 jose 2006:
1.191 jufi 2007: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2008: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2009:
2010: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2011: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2012:
1.212 horacio 2013: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2014: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2015: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2016:
1.211 horacio 2017: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2018: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2019: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2020:
1.247 jufi 2021: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2022: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2023:
1.247 jufi 2024: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2025: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2026:
1.212 horacio 2027: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2028: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2029: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2030:
2031: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2032: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2033:
2034: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2035: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2036:
1.301 jose 2037: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2038: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2039:
1.191 jufi 2040: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2041: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2042:
2043: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2044: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2045:
1.192 jufi 2046: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2047: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2048: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2049:
1.193 deraadt 2050: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2051: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2052: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2053:
1.247 jufi 2054: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2055: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2056:
1.247 jufi 2057: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2058: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2059: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2060:
1.213 horacio 2061: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2062: 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 2063: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2064:
1.190 horacio 2065: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2066: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2067: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2068: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2069: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2070: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2071: <p>
1.190 horacio 2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2074: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2075: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2076: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2077: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2078:
1.195 jufi 2079: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2080: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2081: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2082: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2083: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2084: <p>
2085:
1.247 jufi 2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2087: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2088: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2089: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2090: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2091:
1.191 jufi 2092: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2093: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2094: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2095: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2096: <p>
2097:
2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2099: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2100: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2101: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2102:
2103: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2104: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2105: <p>
1.247 jufi 2106: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2107:
1.191 jufi 2108:
1.186 jufi 2109: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2110: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2113: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2114: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2115: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2116: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2117:
1.188 jufi 2118: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2119: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2120: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2121: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2122: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2123: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2124: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2125: <p>
2126:
1.301 jose 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2128: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2129: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2130: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2131:
2132: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2133: <p>
1.191 jufi 2134:
1.247 jufi 2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2136: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2137: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2138: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2139: </strong></font><br>
2140:
2141: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2142: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2143: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2144: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2145: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2146: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2147: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2148: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2149: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2150: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2151: familiar?
2152: <p>
1.247 jufi 2153: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2154:
1.178 louis 2155: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2156: <ul>
1.178 louis 2157:
1.247 jufi 2158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2159: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2160: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2161: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2162: </strong></font><br>
2163:
2164: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2165: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2166: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2167: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2168: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2169: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2170: <p>
2171:
1.247 jufi 2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2173: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2174: Open source under the hood</a>,
2175: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2176: </strong></font><br>
2177:
2178: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2179: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2180: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2181: <p>
2182:
1.247 jufi 2183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2184: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2185: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2186: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2187: </strong></font><br>
2188:
2189: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2190: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2191: <p>
1.247 jufi 2192: </ul>
1.179 louis 2193:
1.174 louis 2194:
1.175 louis 2195: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2196: <ul>
1.175 louis 2197:
1.247 jufi 2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2199: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2200: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2201: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2202: </strong></font><br>
2203:
2204: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2205: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2206: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2207: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2208: <p>
2209:
1.247 jufi 2210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2211: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2212: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2213: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2214: </strong></font><br>
2215:
2216: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2217: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2218: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2219: <p>
1.247 jufi 2220: </ul>
1.175 louis 2221:
1.176 louis 2222:
1.172 mickey 2223: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2224: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2227: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2228: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2229: </strong></font><br>
2230:
2231: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2232: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2233: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2234: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2238: <a
1.269 deraadt 2239: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2240: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2241: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2242: </strong></font><br>
2243:
2244: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2245: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2246: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2247: <p>
2248:
1.247 jufi 2249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2250: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2251: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2252: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2253: </strong></font><br>
2254:
2255: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2256: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2257: <p>
2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2260: <a
1.269 deraadt 2261: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2262: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2263: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2264: </strong></font><br>
2265:
2266: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2267: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2268: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2269: our own Theo de Raadt.
2270: <p>
2271:
1.247 jufi 2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2273: <a
1.269 deraadt 2274: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2275: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2276: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2277: </strong></font><br>
2278:
2279: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2280: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2281: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2282: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2283: shut down.]
2284: <p>
2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2287: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2288: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2289: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2290: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2291: </strong></font><br>
2292:
2293: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2294: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2295: <p>
1.247 jufi 2296: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2297:
1.161 louis 2298: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2299: <ul>
1.161 louis 2300:
1.247 jufi 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2302: <a
1.269 deraadt 2303: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2304: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2305: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2306: </strong></font><br>
2307:
2308: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2309: by John Wolley
2310: <p>
2311:
1.247 jufi 2312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2313: <a
1.269 deraadt 2314: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2315: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2316: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2317: </strong></font><br>
2318:
2319: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2320: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2321: OpenBSD).
2322: <p>
2323:
1.247 jufi 2324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2325: <a
1.247 jufi 2326: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2327: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2328: </strong></font><br>
2329:
2330: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2331: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2332: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2333: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2334: and hindsight.
2335: <p>
2336:
1.247 jufi 2337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2338: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2339: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2340: </strong></font><br>
2341:
2342: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2343: <p>
2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2346: <a
1.168 provos 2347: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2348: December 7, 2000
2349: </strong></font><br>
2350:
2351: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2352: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2353: us explain.
2354: <p>
2355:
1.247 jufi 2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2357: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2358: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2359: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2360: December 6, 2000
2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2364: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2365: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2366: <p>
2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2369: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2370: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2371: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2375: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2376: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2377: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2378: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2379: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2380: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2381: <p>
2382:
2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2384: <a
1.226 horacio 2385: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2386: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2387: </strong></font><br>
2388:
2389: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2390: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2391: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2392: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2393: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2394: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2395: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2396: <p>
1.162 millert 2397:
1.247 jufi 2398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2399: <a
1.161 louis 2400: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2401: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2402: </strong></font><br>
2403:
2404: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2405: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2406: <p>
2407:
1.247 jufi 2408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2409: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2410: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2411: </strong></font><br>
2412:
2413: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2414: <p>
2415:
2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2418: <a
1.226 horacio 2419: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2420: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2421: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2422: </strong></font><br>
2423:
2424: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2425: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2426: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2427: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2428: <p>
1.247 jufi 2429: </ul>
1.169 louis 2430:
1.158 louis 2431: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2432: <ul>
1.147 louis 2433:
1.247 jufi 2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2435: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2436: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2437: </strong></font><br>
2438:
2439: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2440: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2441: <p>
2442:
1.247 jufi 2443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2444: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2445: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2446: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2447: </strong></font><br>
2448: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2449: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2450: <p>
2451:
1.247 jufi 2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2453: <a
2454: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2455: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2456: </strong></font><br>
2457:
2458: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2459: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2460: <p>
2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2463: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2464: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2465: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2466:
1.213 horacio 2467: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2468: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2469: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2470: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2471: <p>
1.215 horacio 2472:
1.247 jufi 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2474: <a
2475: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2476: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2477: </strong></font><br>
2478:
2479: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2480: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2481: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2482: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2483: much of the attitude too).
2484: <p>
1.161 louis 2485:
1.247 jufi 2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2487: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2488: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2489: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2490:
1.157 louis 2491: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2492: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2493: <p>
1.247 jufi 2494: </ul>
1.157 louis 2495:
2496: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2497: <ul>
1.157 louis 2498:
1.247 jufi 2499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2500: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2501: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2505: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2506: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2507: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2508: <p>
2509:
1.247 jufi 2510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2511: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2512: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2513: </strong></font><br>
2514:
2515: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2516: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2517: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2518: it because they love coding...
2519: <p>
2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2522: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2523: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2524: </strong></font><br>
2525:
2526: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2527: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2528: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2529: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2530: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2531: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2532: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2533: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2534: <p>
2535:
1.247 jufi 2536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2537: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2538: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2539: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2540: </strong></font><br>
2541:
2542: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2543: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2544: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2545: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2546: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2547: the pizza.
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2551: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2552: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2553: </strong></font><br>
2554:
2555: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2556: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2557: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2558: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2559: problems.
2560: <p>
2561:
1.247 jufi 2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2563: <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 2564: </strong></font><br>
2565:
1.222 miod 2566: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2567: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2568: - whether they like it or not.
2569: <p>
2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2572: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2573: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2574: </strong></font><br>
2575:
2576: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2577: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2578: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2579: <p>
1.148 aaron 2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2582: <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 2583: </strong></font><br>
2584:
2585: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2586: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2587: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2588: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2589: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2590: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2591: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2592: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2593: <p>
2594:
1.247 jufi 2595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2596: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2597: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2598: </strong></font><br>
2599:
2600: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2601: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2602: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2603: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2604: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2605: <p>
1.247 jufi 2606: </ul>
1.147 louis 2607:
1.138 louis 2608: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2609: <ul>
1.138 louis 2610:
1.247 jufi 2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2612: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2613: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2614: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2615: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2616: </strong></font><br>
2617:
1.227 horacio 2618: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2619: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2620: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2621: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2622: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2623: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2624: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2625: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2626: <p>
2627:
1.247 jufi 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2629: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2630: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2634: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2635: groups, and even Linux.
2636: <p>
2637:
1.247 jufi 2638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2639: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2640: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2641: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2642: </strong></font><br>
2643:
2644: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2645: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2646: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2647: library after installing the OS.
2648: <p>
2649:
1.247 jufi 2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2651: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2652: Sys Admin, September 2000
2653: </strong></font><br>
2654:
2655: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2656: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2657: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2658: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2659: (<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>,
2660: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2661: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2662: <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 2663: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2664: out of the system.
2665: <p>
2666:
1.247 jufi 2667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2668: <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
2669: </strong></font><br>
2670:
2671: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2672: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2673: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2674: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2675: the IP filtering and address translation.
2676: <p>
1.301 jose 2677:
2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2679: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2680: </strong></font><br>
2681:
2682: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2683: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2684: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2685: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2686: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2687: <p>
1.247 jufi 2688: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2689:
1.131 louis 2690: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2691: <ul>
1.131 louis 2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2694: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2695: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2696: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2697: </strong></font><br>
2698:
2699: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2700: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2701: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2702: <p>
2703:
1.247 jufi 2704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2705: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2706: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2707: </strong></font><br>
2708:
2709: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2710: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2711: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2712: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2713: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2714: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2715: note of"</i>.
2716: <p>
2717:
1.247 jufi 2718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2719: <a
1.247 jufi 2720: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2721: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2722: </strong></font><br>
2723:
2724: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2725: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2726: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2727: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2728: <p>
2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2731: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2732: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2733: </strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2736: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2737: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2738: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2739: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2740: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2741: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2742: <p>
2743:
1.247 jufi 2744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2745: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2746: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2747: 2000
2748: </strong></font><br>
2749:
2750: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2751: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2752: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2753: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2754: against current industry practices.
2755: <p>
2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2758: <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
2759: </strong></font><br>
2760:
2761: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2762: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2763: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2767: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2768: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2769: </strong></font><br>
2770:
2771: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2772: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2773: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2774: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2775: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2776: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2777: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2778: <p>
2779:
1.247 jufi 2780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2781: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2782: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2783: </strong></font><br>
2784:
2785: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2786: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2787: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2788: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2789: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2790: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2791: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2792: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2793: <p>
1.247 jufi 2794: </ul>
1.131 louis 2795:
1.118 louis 2796: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2797: <ul>
1.118 louis 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2800: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2801: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2802: </strong></font><br>
2803:
2804: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2805: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2806: about time. The article mentions that
2807: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2808: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2809: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2810: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2811: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2812: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2813: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2814: <p>
2815:
1.247 jufi 2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2817: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2818: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2819: </strong></font><br>
2820:
2821: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2822: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2823: of OpenSSH.
2824: <p>
2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2827: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2828: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2829: </strong></font><br>
2830:
2831: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2832: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2833: bridging.
2834: <p>
2835:
1.247 jufi 2836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2837: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2838: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2839: </strong></font><br>
2840:
1.121 deraadt 2841: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2842: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2843: <p>
2844:
1.247 jufi 2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2846: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2847: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2848: </strong></font><br>
2849:
2850: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2851: <p>
2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2854: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2855: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2856: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2857: </strong></font><br>
2858:
1.120 deraadt 2859: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2860: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2861: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2862: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2863: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2864: <p>
2865:
1.247 jufi 2866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2867: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2868: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2869: </strong></font><br>
2870:
1.222 miod 2871: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2872: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2873: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2874: protocols and their quirks.
2875: <p>
2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2878: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2879: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2880: </strong></font><br>
2881:
2882: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2883: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2884: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2885: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2886: <p>
2887:
1.247 jufi 2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2889: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2890: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2891: </strong></font><br>
2892:
2893: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2894: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2895: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2896: <p>
2897:
1.247 jufi 2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2899: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2900: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2901: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2902: </strong></font><br>
2903:
2904: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2905: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2906: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2907: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2908: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2909: <p>
1.247 jufi 2910: </ul>
1.118 louis 2911:
1.104 louis 2912: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2913: <ul>
1.104 louis 2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2916: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2917: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2918: </strong></font><br>
2919:
2920: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2921: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2922: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2923: be a bit dry.
2924: <p>
2925:
1.247 jufi 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2927: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2928: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2929: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2930: </strong></font><br>
2931: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2932: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2933: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2934: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2935: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2936: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2937: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2938: <p>
2939:
1.247 jufi 2940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2941: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2942: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2943: 2000
1.128 louis 2944: </strong></font><br>
2945:
2946: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2947: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2948: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2949: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2950: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2951: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2955: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2956: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2957: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2958:
2959: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2960: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2961: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2962: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2963: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2964: <p>
1.110 louis 2965:
1.247 jufi 2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2967: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2968: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2969: </strong></font><br>
2970:
2971: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2972: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2973: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2974: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2975: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2976: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2977: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2978: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2979: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2980: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2981: <p>
2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2984: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2985: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2986:
2987: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2988: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2989: <p>
1.108 louis 2990:
1.247 jufi 2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2992: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2993: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2994: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2995:
2996: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2997: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2998: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2999: <p>
1.106 louis 3000:
1.247 jufi 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3002: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3003: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3004: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3005:
3006: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3007: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3008: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3009: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3010: <p>
1.107 louis 3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3013: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3014: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3015: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3016:
3017: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3018: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3019: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3020: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3021: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3022: <p>
1.105 louis 3023:
1.247 jufi 3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3025: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3026: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3027: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3028:
1.113 naddy 3029: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3030: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3031: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3032: <p>
1.104 louis 3033:
1.247 jufi 3034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3035: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3036: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3037: </strong></font><br>
3038:
3039: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3040: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3041: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3042: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3043: <p>
1.301 jose 3044:
3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3046: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3047: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3048: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3049:
3050: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3051: hardware-supported cryptography.
3052: <p>
1.247 jufi 3053: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3054:
1.85 louis 3055: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3056: <ul>
1.85 louis 3057:
1.247 jufi 3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3059: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3060: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3061: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3062:
3063: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3064: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3065: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3066: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3067: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3068: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3069: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3070: <p>
1.99 louis 3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3073: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3074: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3075: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3076:
3077: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3078: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3079: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3080: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3081: <p>
1.100 louis 3082:
1.247 jufi 3083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3084: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3085: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3087:
3088: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3089: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3090: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3091: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3092: <p>
1.95 louis 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3095: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3096: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3097: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3098:
3099: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3100: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3101: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3102: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3103: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3104: <p>
1.92 louis 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3107: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3108: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3110:
3111: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3112: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3113: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3114: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3115: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3116: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3117: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3118: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3119: <p>
1.91 louis 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3122: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3123: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3124: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3125:
3126: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3127: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3128: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3129: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3130: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3131: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3132: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3133: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3134: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3135: <p>
1.90 louis 3136:
1.247 jufi 3137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3138: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3139: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3140: </strong></font><br>
3141: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3142: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3143: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3144: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3145: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3146: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3147: <p>
3148:
1.247 jufi 3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3150: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3151: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3152: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3153:
1.113 naddy 3154: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3155: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3156: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3157: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3158: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3159: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3160: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3161: <p>
1.87 louis 3162:
1.247 jufi 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3164: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3165: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3166: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3167:
3168: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3169: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3170: <p>
1.85 louis 3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3173: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3174: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3175: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3176:
3177: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3178: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3179: <p>
3180:
3181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3182: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3183: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3184: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3185:
3186: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3187: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3188: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3189: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.89 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3193: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3194: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3196:
3197: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3198: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3199: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3200: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3201: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3202: </ul>
1.85 louis 3203:
1.78 deraadt 3204: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3205: <ul>
1.74 louis 3206:
1.247 jufi 3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3208: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3209: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3210: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3211: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3212:
3213: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3214: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3215: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3216: <p>
1.83 louis 3217:
1.247 jufi 3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3219: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3220: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3221: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3222:
3223: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3224: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3225: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3226: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3227: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3228: <p>
1.93 louis 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3231: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3232: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3233: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3234: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3235:
1.83 louis 3236: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3237: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3238: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3239: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3240: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3241: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3242: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3243: <p>
1.82 aaron 3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3246: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3247: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3248: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3249:
1.83 louis 3250: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3251: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3252: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3253: <p>
1.80 louis 3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3256: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3257: Bad Press</a>,
3258: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3259: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3260:
3261: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3262: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3263: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3264: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3265: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3266: <p>
1.247 jufi 3267: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3268:
3269: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3270: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3273: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3274: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3275: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3276: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3277:
3278: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3279: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3280: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3281: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3282: <p>
1.74 louis 3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3285: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3286: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3287: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3288:
1.219 horacio 3289: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3290: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3291: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3292: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3293: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3294: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3295: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3296: <p>
1.88 louis 3297:
1.247 jufi 3298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3299: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3300: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3301: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3302:
3303: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3304: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3305: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3306: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3307: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3308: <p>
1.81 louis 3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3311: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3312: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3313: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3314:
3315: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3316: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3317: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3318: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3319: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3320: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3321: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3322: <p>
1.90 louis 3323:
1.247 jufi 3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3325: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3326: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3327: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3328:
3329: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3330: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3331: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3332: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3333: <p>
1.247 jufi 3334: </ul>
1.71 louis 3335:
1.69 deraadt 3336: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3337: <ul>
1.70 louis 3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3340: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3341: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3342: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3343:
3344: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3345: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3346: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3347: <p>
1.70 louis 3348:
1.247 jufi 3349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3350: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3351: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3352: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3353:
3354: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3355: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3356: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3357: <p>
1.68 louis 3358:
1.247 jufi 3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3360: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3361: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3362: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3363: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3364:
1.111 jufi 3365: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3366: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3367: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3368: "secure by default" installation.
3369: <p>
1.64 louis 3370:
1.247 jufi 3371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3372: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3373: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3374: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3375:
1.113 naddy 3376: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3377: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3378: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3379: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3380: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3381: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3382: <p>
1.66 louis 3383:
1.247 jufi 3384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3385: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3386: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3387: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3388:
3389: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3390: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3391: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3392: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3393: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3394: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3395: <p>
1.83 louis 3396:
1.247 jufi 3397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3398: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3399: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3400: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3401:
3402: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3403: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3404: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3405: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3406: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3407: <p>
1.64 louis 3408:
1.247 jufi 3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3410: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3411: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3412: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3413:
3414: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3415: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3416: <p>
1.301 jose 3417:
3418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3419: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3420: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3421: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3422: </strong></font><br>
3423:
3424: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3425: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3426: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3427: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3428: Giving way to
3429: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3430: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3431: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3432: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3433: <p>
1.247 jufi 3434: </ul>
1.65 louis 3435:
1.69 deraadt 3436: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3437: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3438:
1.247 jufi 3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3440: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3441: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3442: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3443:
3444: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3445: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3446: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3447: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3448: <p>
1.88 louis 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3451: <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 3452: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3453:
3454: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3455: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3456: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3457: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3458: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3459: <p>
1.60 louis 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3462: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3463: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3464: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3465: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3466:
3467: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3468: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3469: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3470: <p>
1.58 louis 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3473: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3474: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3475:
3476: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3477: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3478: <p>
1.53 louis 3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3481: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3482: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3483: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3484:
3485: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3486: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3487: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3488: <p>
1.99 louis 3489:
1.247 jufi 3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3491: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3492: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3493:
3494: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3495: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3496: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3497: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3498: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3499:
1.247 jufi 3500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3501: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3502: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3503: </strong></font><br>
3504:
3505: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3506: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3507: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3508: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3509: <p>
3510:
1.247 jufi 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3512: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3513: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3514: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3515:
3516: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3517: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3518: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3519:
1.247 jufi 3520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3521: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3522: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3523:
3524: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3525: in
1.247 jufi 3526: <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 3527: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3528: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3529: <p>
1.53 louis 3530:
1.247 jufi 3531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3532: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3533: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3534: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3535: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3536:
1.58 louis 3537: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3538: <p>
1.301 jose 3539:
3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3541: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3542: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3543: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3544: Informacyjny, January 2000
3545: </strong></font><br>
3546:
3547: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3548: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3549: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3550: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3551: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3552: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3553: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3554: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3555: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3556: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3557: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3558: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3559: <p>
3560:
3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3562: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3563: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3564: </strong></font><br>
3565:
3566: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3567: <p>
3568: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3569:
1.69 deraadt 3570: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3571: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3572:
1.247 jufi 3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3574: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3575: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3576: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3577: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3578:
1.58 louis 3579: Kurt Seifried
3580: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3581: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3582: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3583: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3584:
1.247 jufi 3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3586: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3587: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3588: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3589:
3590: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3591: <p>
1.96 louis 3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3594: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3595: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3596: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3597: </strong></font><br>
3598:
3599: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3600: <p>
3601:
3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3603: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3604: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3605: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3606:
3607: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3608: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3609: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3610: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3611: <p>
1.247 jufi 3612: </ul>
1.86 louis 3613:
1.69 deraadt 3614: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3615: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3616:
1.247 jufi 3617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3618: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3619: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3620: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3621:
3622: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3623: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3624: <p>
1.61 louis 3625:
1.247 jufi 3626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3627: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3628: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3629: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3630: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3631:
3632: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3633: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3634: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3635: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3636: right -- or at least strives to".
3637: <p>
1.48 louis 3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3640: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3641: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3642: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3643: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3644: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3645: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3646: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3647: <p>
1.61 louis 3648:
1.247 jufi 3649: <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 3650: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3651: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3652:
3653: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3654: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3655: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3656: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3657: <p>
1.46 louis 3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3660: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3661: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3662: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3663:
3664: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3665: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3666: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3667:
1.247 jufi 3668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3669: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3670: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3671: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3672:
3673: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3674: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3675: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3676: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3677: <p>
1.247 jufi 3678: </ul>
1.70 louis 3679:
1.69 deraadt 3680: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3681: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3682:
1.247 jufi 3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3684: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3685: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3686: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3687: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3688:
3689: Kurt Seifried
3690: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3691: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3692: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3693: <p>
1.44 philen 3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <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 3696: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3697: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3698:
3699: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3700: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3701:
1.247 jufi 3702: <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 3703: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3704: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3705:
3706: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3707: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <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 3710: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3711: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3712:
3713: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3714: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3715: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3716: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3717: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3718:
1.247 jufi 3719: <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 3720: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3721: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3722:
1.36 louis 3723: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3724: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3725:
1.247 jufi 3726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3727: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3728: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3729: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3730:
3731: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3732: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3733: </ul>
1.38 louis 3734:
1.69 deraadt 3735: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3736: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <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 3739: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3740: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3741:
3742: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3743: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3744: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3745:
1.113 naddy 3746: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3747: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3748: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3749: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3750:
3751: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3752: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3753: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3754: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3755: <blockquote>
3756: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3757: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3758: <br>
3759: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3760: </code>
3761: </blockquote>
3762: <p>
3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3765: <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 3766: <p>
3767:
3768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3769: <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 3770: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3771:
3772: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3773: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3774: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3775: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3776:
1.247 jufi 3777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3778: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3779: Sept. 28, 1999
3780: </strong></font><br>
3781:
3782: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3783: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3784: translating and reprinting articles from
3785: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3786: <p>
3787:
3788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3789: <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 3790: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3791:
3792: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3793: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3794: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3795: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3796: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3797: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3798: <p>
1.19 louis 3799:
1.113 naddy 3800: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3801: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3802: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3803:
3804: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3805: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3806: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3807: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3808: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3809: <p>
1.16 louis 3810:
1.247 jufi 3811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3812: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3813: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3814: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3815:
1.57 louis 3816: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3817: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3818: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3819: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3822: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3823: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3824: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3825:
1.113 naddy 3826: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3827:
1.247 jufi 3828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3829: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3830: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3831: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3832:
1.23 louis 3833: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3834: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3835: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3836: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3837: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3838: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3839:
1.247 jufi 3840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3841: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3842: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3843: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3844:
1.199 pvalchev 3845: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3846: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3847: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3848: installation.
1.113 naddy 3849: <p>
1.47 louis 3850:
1.247 jufi 3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3852: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3853: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3854: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3855:
1.301 jose 3856: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3857: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3858: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3859: </ul>
1.57 louis 3860:
1.69 deraadt 3861: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3862: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3863:
1.247 jufi 3864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3865: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3866: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3867: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3868:
3869: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3870: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3871: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3872: <p>
1.12 louis 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3875: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3876: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3877: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3878:
3879: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3880: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3881: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3882: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3883: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3884: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3885: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3886: <p>
1.247 jufi 3887: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3888:
1.69 deraadt 3889: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3890: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3893: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3894: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3895:
3896: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3897: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3898: available."
1.113 naddy 3899: <p>
1.301 jose 3900:
3901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3902: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3903: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3904: </strong></font><br>
3905:
3906: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3907: <p>
1.247 jufi 3908: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3909:
1.69 deraadt 3910: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3911: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3914: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3915: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3916:
3917: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3918: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3919: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3920: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3921: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3922: <p>
1.33 louis 3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3925: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3926: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3927: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3928:
1.113 naddy 3929: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3930: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3931: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3932: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3933: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3934: <p>
1.247 jufi 3935: </ul>
1.57 louis 3936:
1.69 deraadt 3937: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3938: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3939:
1.247 jufi 3940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3941: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3942: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3943: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3944:
3945: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3946: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3947: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3948:
1.247 jufi 3949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3950: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3951: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3952: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3953: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3954:
3955: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3956: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3959: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3960:
1.113 naddy 3961: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3962:
1.247 jufi 3963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3964: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3965: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3966: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3967:
3968: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3969: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3970: </ul>
1.23 louis 3971:
1.69 deraadt 3972: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3973: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3974:
1.247 jufi 3975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 3976: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 3977: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3978:
3979: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3980: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3981: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3982:
1.247 jufi 3983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3984: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3985: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3986: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3987:
3988: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3989: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3990: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3991: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3992: </ul>
1.57 louis 3993:
1.69 deraadt 3994: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3995: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3996:
1.247 jufi 3997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3998: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3999: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4000: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4001:
4002: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4003: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4004: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4005: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4006: <p>
1.15 louis 4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4009: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4010: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4011: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4012:
4013: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4014: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4015: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4016: columns."
1.113 naddy 4017: <p>
1.247 jufi 4018: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4019:
1.69 deraadt 4020: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4021: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4022:
1.247 jufi 4023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4024: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4025: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4026: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4027:
4028: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4029: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4030:
1.113 naddy 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4032: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4033: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4034:
4035: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4036: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4037: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4038: </ul>
1.57 louis 4039:
1.69 deraadt 4040: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4041: <ul>
1.301 jose 4042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4043: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4044: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4045: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4046:
4047: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4048: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4049: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4050: <p>
4051:
4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4053: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4054: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4055: Nov 13, 1998 and
4056: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4057: Datateknik</a>,
4058: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4059:
1.380 saad 4060: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4061: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4062: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4063: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4064: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4065:
1.113 naddy 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4067: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4068: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4069: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4070:
1.222 miod 4071: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4072: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4073: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4074: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4075: <p>
1.247 jufi 4076: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4077:
1.69 deraadt 4078: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4079: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4080:
1.247 jufi 4081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4082: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4083: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4084:
1.69 deraadt 4085: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4086: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4087: <p>
1.247 jufi 4088: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4089:
1.69 deraadt 4090: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4091: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4092:
1.247 jufi 4093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4094: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4095: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4096: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4097:
1.383 jcs 4098: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4099: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4100: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4101:
1.247 jufi 4102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4103: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4104: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4105: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4106: <p>
1.247 jufi 4107: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4108:
1.69 deraadt 4109: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4110: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4113: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4114: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4115: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4116: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4117: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4118:
4119: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4120: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4121: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4122: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4123: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4124: <p>
1.247 jufi 4125: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4126:
4127: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4128: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4131: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4132: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4133:
1.69 deraadt 4134: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4135: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4136: <p>
1.112 naddy 4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4139: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4140:
1.292 camield 4141: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4142: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4143: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.398 ! henning 4144: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.397 2004/07/07 13:22:52 otto Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4145:
4146: </body>
4147: </html>
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