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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.400 marco 19: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 ! marco 22: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
! 23: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
! 24: Computer Business Review Online September 2, 2004
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
! 27: <p>
! 28:
! 29: </ul>
! 30: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
! 31: <ul>
! 32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 33: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
34: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
35: Computer Business Review Online September 2, 2004
36: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 37: Very positive article that highlights things as OpenBSD ships SMP capable kernel on amd64 6 months ahead of SUN and other vendors. It also discusses the new possibilities to deploy OpenBSD in a bigger iron playground.
1.400 marco 38: <p>
39: </ul>
40:
1.396 henning 41: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
42: <ul>
43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.398 henning 44: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
45: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
46: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
47: </strong></font><br>
48: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
49: <p>
50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.399 henning 51: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
52: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
53: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
54: </strong></font><br>
55: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
56: <p>
57: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 58: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
59: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
60: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
61: </strong></font><br>
62: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
63: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
64: <p>
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 66: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
67: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
68: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
69: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
70: <p>
71: </ul>
72:
1.393 david 73: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
74: <ul>
75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 76: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
77: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
78: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
79: </strong></font><br>
80: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
81: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
82: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
83: on inserting large number of SQL records.
84: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
85: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
86: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 90: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
91: Secure by Default</a>,
92: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
93: </strong></font><br>
94: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
95: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
96: <p>
97:
98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
99: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
100: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
101: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
102: </strong></font><br>
103: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
104: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
105: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
106: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
107: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
108: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
112: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
113: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
114: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
115: </strong></font><br>
116: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
117: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
118: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
119: <p>
120:
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
122: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
123: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
124: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
125: </strong></font><br>
126: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
127: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
128: <p>
129: </ul>
130:
1.388 mcbride 131: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
132: <ul>
1.394 jolan 133:
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
135: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
136: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
137: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
138: </strong></font><br>
139: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
140: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
141: available for sparc64.
142: <p>
143:
1.390 beck 144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 145: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
146: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
147: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
148: </strong></font><br>
149: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
150: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
151: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
152: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
153: <p>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 156: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
157: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 158: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 159: </strong></font><br>
160: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
161: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
162: it does: CARP provides sharing
163: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
164: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
165: detail to get you started using it.
166: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
167: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
168: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
169: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
170: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
171: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
172: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 173: <p>
1.391 ian 174:
175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 176: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 177: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
178: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 179: </strong></font><br>
180: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 181: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 182: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 183: <p>
1.388 mcbride 184:
185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
186: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
187: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 188: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 189: </strong></font><br>
190: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
191: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
192: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
193: unencumbered by patents.
194: <p>
195: </ul>
196:
1.378 henning 197: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
198: <ul>
1.384 jose 199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 201: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
202: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
203: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
204: </strong></font><br>
205: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
206: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
207: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
208: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
209: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
210: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
211: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
212: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
213: in the page tables."
214: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 218: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
219: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
220: </strong></font><br>
221: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
222: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
223: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
224: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 225: <p>
1.384 jose 226:
1.378 henning 227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 228: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
229: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 230: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
231: </strong></font><br>
232: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
233: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
234: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
235: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
236: (quote:
237: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
238: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 239: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 240: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
241: the other developers for their work on the system.
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 245: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
246: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
247: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 248: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 249: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
250: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
251: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
252: too.
253: <p>
254:
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 256: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
257: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 258: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 259: OpenBSD source code using
260: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
261: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
262: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
263: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
264: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
265: <p>
266: </ul>
267:
1.374 jose 268: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
269: <ul>
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 271: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 272: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
273: </strong></font><br>
274: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
275: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
276: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
277: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
278: it."
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 282: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
283: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
284: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
285: </strong></font><br/>
286: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
287: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
288: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
289: <p>
290: </ul>
291:
1.369 ian 292: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
293: <ul>
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 295: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
296: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
297: </strong></font><br/>
298: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
299: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
300: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
301: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 305: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
306: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
307: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
308: </strong></font><br/>
309: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
310: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
311: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
312: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
313: form factor.
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
317: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
318: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
319: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
320: Features</a>,
321: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
322: </strong></font><br/>
323: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
324: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
325: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
326: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
327: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
328: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
329: <p>
330: This article can also be found online at:
331: <ul>
332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 333: <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 334: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
335: </strong></font>
336: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
337: </ul>
338: <p>
1.392 david 339:
1.371 jose 340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 341: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
342: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 343: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
344: </strong></font><br/>
345: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
346: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
347: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 348: <p>
1.371 jose 349:
350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 351: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 352: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 353: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 354: </strong></font><br/>
355: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
356: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
357: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
358: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
359: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
360: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
361: and its history with OpenBSD.
362: </ul>
363:
1.368 henning 364: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
365: <ul>
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 367: [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 368: </strong></font><br>
369: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
370: </ul>
371:
1.364 jose 372: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
373: <ul>
374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 375: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
376: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
377: UNIX Review,
378: July, 2003.
379: </strong></font><br>
380: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
381: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
382: who want more information.
383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 386: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
387: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
388: Government Computer News,
389: July 22, 2003.
390: </strong></font><br>
391: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
392: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
393: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
394: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
398: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
399: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
400: SANS Institute,
401: July 22, 2003.
402: </strong></font><br>
403: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 404: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 405: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
406: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
407: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
408: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
409: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
410: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
411: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
412: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
413: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 417: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
418: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
419: OnLamp.com,
420: July 17, 2003.
421: </strong></font><br>
422: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
423: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
424: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
425: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
426: have been working on.
427:
428: </ul>
429:
1.356 jose 430: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 431: <ul>
432:
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 434: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
435: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
436: UNIX Review,
437: June, 2003.
438: </strong></font><br>
439: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
440: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
441: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
442: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
443: <p>
444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 446: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
447: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
448: eWeek,
449: June 23, 2003.
450: </strong></font><br>
451: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
452: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
453: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
454: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
455: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
456: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
457: <p>
458:
459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 460: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
461: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
462: Software Development Online,
463: June, 2003.
464: </strong></font><br>
465: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
466: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
467: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
468: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
469: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
470: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
471: current activities.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 475: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
476: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 477: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
478: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
479: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
480: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
481: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
482: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
483: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
484: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 485: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 486: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
487: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
488: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
489: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
490: decisions.
491: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
492: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
493: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
494: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 495: <p>
496:
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 498: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
499: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
500: Page 58, eWeek,
501: June 2, 2003.
502: </strong></font><br>
503: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
504: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
505: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
506: been addressed in -current.
507: <p>
508:
1.356 jose 509: </ul>
510:
511: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
512: <ul>
513:
1.355 jose 514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 515: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
516: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
517: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
518: </strong></font><br>
519: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
520: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
521: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
522: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
523: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
524: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
525: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 529: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
530: Beyond Linux</a>,
531: InfoWorld,
532: May 23, 2003.
533: </strong></font><br>
534: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
535: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
536: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
537: compared to the GPL.
538: <p>
539:
540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 541: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
542: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
543: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 544: May 17, 2003.
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
547: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
548: the business section and half of another page inside
549: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
550: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
551: in talking about the project's history and goals.
552: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
553: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
554: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
555: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 556: <br>
557: This article can also be found online at:
558: <ul>
559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
560: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
561: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
562: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
563: May 17, 2003
564: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 565: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
567: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
568: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
569: Montreal Gazette,
570: May 21, 2003
571: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 572: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 573: <p>
1.346 ian 574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 576: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 577: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 578: May 7, 2003.
579: </strong></font><br>
580: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
581: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
582: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
583: <p>
584:
585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 586: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
587: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
588: OsOpinion,
589: May 6, 2003.
590: </strong></font><br>
591: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
592: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
593: <br>
594: This article can also be found online at:
595: <ul>
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
597: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
598: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
599: NewsFactor Network.
600: </strong></font>
601: </ul>
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 605: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 606: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
607: ITBusiness,
608: May 2, 2003.
609: </strong></font><br>
610: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
611: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
612: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
613: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
614: <p>
615:
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 617: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
618: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
619: InfoWorld,
620: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 621: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 622: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
623: <br>
624: This article can also be found online at:
625: <ul>
626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
627: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
628: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
629: IDG Singapore.
630: </strong></font>
631: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 632: <p>
633:
1.339 jose 634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
635: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
636: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 637: ZDNet,
638: May 1, 2003.
639: </strong></font><br>
640: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 641: someone using parts from previous articles.
642: <br>
1.341 deraadt 643: This article can also be found online at:
644: <ul>
645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
646: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
647: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
648: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 649: </strong></font>
650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
651: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
652: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
653: CNET News.com.
654: </strong></font>
655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
656: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
657: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
658: ZDNet UK.
659: </strong></font>
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
661: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
662: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
663: Help Net Security, Croatia.
664: </strong></font>
665: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 666: <p>
1.339 jose 667:
1.341 deraadt 668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 669: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 670: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
671: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
672: May 1, 2003.
673: </strong></font><br>
674: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
675: that have been added
676: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
677: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
678: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 679: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 680: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
681: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
682: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 683: <p>
684:
685: </ul>
686:
1.253 ian 687: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
688: <ul>
1.255 ian 689:
1.260 ian 690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 691: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 692: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
693: TechRepublic,
694: April 28, 2003.
695: </strong></font><br>
696: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
697: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 698: work.<br>
699: Can also be found online at:
700: <ul>
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
702: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
703: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
704: ZDNet UK.
705: </strong></font>
706: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 710: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
711: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
712: IDG,
713: April 24, 2003.
714: </strong></font><br>
715: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
716: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
717: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
718: Can also be found online at:
719: <ul>
720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
721: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
722: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 723: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 724: </strong></font>
725: </ul>
726: <p>
727:
728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
729: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 730: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 731: Slate,
732: April 24, 2003.
733: </strong></font><br>
734: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
735: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
736: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
737: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
738: <p>
739:
740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 741: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
742: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
743: April 24, 2003.
744: </strong></font><br>
745: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
746: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
747: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
748: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
749: <p>
750:
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 752: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
753: April 24, 2003.
754: </strong></font><br>
755: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
756: the free software community".
757: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
758: other articles.
759: <p>
760:
761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 762: <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 763: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
764: </strong></font><br>
765: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
766: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
767: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
768: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
769: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
770: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
771: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
772: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
773: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
774: <br/>
775: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
776: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
777: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
778: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 779: <br>
780: Can also be found online at:
781: <ul>
782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
783: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
784: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
785: Common Dreams NewsCenter
786: </strong></font>
787: </ul>
1.324 ian 788: <p>
789:
790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
791: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
792: Wired, April 24, 2003.
793: </strong></font><br>
794: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
795: article above.
796: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
797: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
798: wasting them."
1.332 ian 799: <br>
800: Can also be found online at:
801: <ul>
802: <li>
803: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
804: </strong></font>
805: </ul>
1.324 ian 806: <p>
807:
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 809: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
810: </strong></font><br>
811: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 815: <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.
816: </strong></font><br>
817: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
818: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 822: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
823: April 23, 2003.
824: </strong></font><br>
825: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 829: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 830: April 22, 2003.
831: </strong></font><br>
832: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
833: <p>
834:
835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 836: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
837: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
838: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 839: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 840: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
841: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
842: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
843: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
844: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
845: Can also be found online at:
846: <ul>
847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
848: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 849: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
850: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 851: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
853: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 854: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
855: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 856: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 857: </ul>
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 861: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
862: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 863: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 864: </strong></font><br>
865: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 866: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
867: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
868: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
869: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
870: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
871: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 872: <p>
873:
874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 875: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
876: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 877: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
878: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 879: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
880: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
881: at UPenn and DARPA.
882: <p>
883:
884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 885: [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,
886: France
1.315 deraadt 887: April 18, 2003.
888: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 889: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 890: <p>
891:
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 893: [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 894: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 895: </strong></font><br>
896: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
897: <p>
898:
899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 900: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
901: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
902: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 903: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 904: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
905: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
906: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 910: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
911: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 912: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 913: </strong></font><br>
914: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
915: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
916: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 917: American century.
1.267 deraadt 918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 921: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
922: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 923: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 924: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 925: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
926: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
927: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
928: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
929: Can also be found online at:
930: <ul>
931: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
932: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 933: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 934: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 935: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 939: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 940: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 941: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 942: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 943: </strong></font><br>
944: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 945: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
946: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
947: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
948: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 949:
950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
951: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
952: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
953: New York Times.
954: </strong></font>(free registration required)
955:
1.273 deraadt 956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
957: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 958: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 959: ABC News.
960: </strong></font>
961:
962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 963: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 964: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 965: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 966: </strong></font>
967:
968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 969: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 970: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 971: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 972: </strong></font>
973:
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 975: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
976: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 977: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 978: </strong></font>
979:
980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 981: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 982: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 983: Times Daily, AL.
984: </strong></font>
985:
986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
987: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
988: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
989: Boston.com, MA.
990: </strong></font>
991:
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 993: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 994: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 995: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
996: </strong></font>
997:
998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 999: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1000: [Article was pulled]</a>
1001: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1002: </strong></font>
1003:
1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1005: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1006: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1007: Infoshop News.
1008: </strong></font>
1009:
1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1011: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1012: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1013: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1014: </strong></font>
1015:
1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1017: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1018: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1019: Raleigh News, NC.
1020: </strong></font>
1021:
1022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1023: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1024: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1025: Napa News, CA.
1026: </strong></font>
1027:
1028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1029: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1030: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1031: NEPA News, PA.
1032: </strong></font>
1033:
1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1035: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1036: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1037: Wired News.
1038: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1039: <br>
1040: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1041: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1042: [JAPANESE]
1043: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1044: Wired News Japan</a>
1045: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1046:
1.271 deraadt 1047: </ul>
1048: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1049: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1050: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1051: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1052: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1053: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1054: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1055: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1056: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1057: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1058: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1059: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1060: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1061: <p>
1062: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1063:
1064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1065: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1066: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1067: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1068: </strong></font>
1069:
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1071: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1072: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1073: Miami Herald, FL.
1074: </strong></font>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1077: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1078: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1079: </strong></font>
1080:
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1082: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1083: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1084: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1085: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1088: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1089: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1090: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1091: ABC News.
1092: </strong></font>
1093:
1.276 deraadt 1094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1095: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1096: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1097: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1098: </strong></font>
1099:
1.286 dhartmei 1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1101: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1102: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1103: Wilmington Star, NC.
1104: </strong></font>
1105:
1.300 jose 1106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1107: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1108: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1109: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1110: </strong></font>
1111:
1.309 jose 1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1113: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1114: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1115: Globe Technology.
1116: </strong></font>
1117:
1.263 deraadt 1118: </ul>
1.262 beck 1119: <p>
1120:
1121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1122: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1123: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1124: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1125: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1126: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1127: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1128: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1132: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1133: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1134: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1135: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1136: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1137: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1138: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1139: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1140: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1141: and simply restates other press reports.
1142: <p>
1143:
1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1145: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1146: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1147: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1148: </strong></font><br>
1149: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1150: <p>
1151:
1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1153: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1154: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1155: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1156: </strong></font><br>
1157: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1158: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1159: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1160: <p>
1161:
1162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1163: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1164: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1165: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1166: April 17, 2003.
1167: </strong></font><br>
1168: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1169: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1170: Tech Anthems</a>
1171: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1172: 4 so far.
1173: <p>
1174:
1175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1176: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1177: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1178: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1181: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1182: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1183: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1184: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1185: Goes on to say:
1186: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1187: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1188: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1189: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1190: This article is also found online at:
1191: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1194: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1195: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1196: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1199: ZDnet</a>,
1200: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1201: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1203: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1204: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1205: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1206: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1207: </ul>
1.260 ian 1208: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1209:
1.260 ian 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1211: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1212: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1213: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1214: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1215: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1216: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1217: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1218: without notice or justification.
1219: <p>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1222: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1223: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1224: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1225: </strong></font><br>
1226: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1227: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1228: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1229: effective today, without any warning..."
1230: <p>
1.257 ian 1231:
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1233: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1234: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1235: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1236: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1237: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1238: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1239: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1240: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1241: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1242: <p>
1243:
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1245: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1246: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1247: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1248: </strong></font><br>
1249: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1250: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1251: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1252: quoting two of them:
1253: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1254: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1255: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1256: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1257: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1258: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1259: <p>
1260:
1.255 ian 1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1262: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1263: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1264: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1265: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1266: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1270: [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 1271: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1272: </strong></font><br>
1273: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1277: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1278: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1279: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1280: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1281: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1282: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1283: security experts for more than three decades."
1284: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1285: <p>
1.261 ian 1286:
1.254 drahn 1287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1288: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1289: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1290: </strong></font><br>
1291: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1295: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1296: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1297: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1298: </strong></font><br>
1299: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1300: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1301: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1302: <p>
1303:
1304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1305: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1306: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1307: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1308: </strong></font><br>
1309: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1310: from US DARPA.
1311: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1312: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1313: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1314: the BSD license.
1315: <p>
1316: </ul>
1317:
1.251 ian 1318: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1319: <ul>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1322: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1323: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1324: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1325: </strong></font><br>
1326:
1327: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1328: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1329: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1330: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1331: <p>
1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1334: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1335: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1336: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1337: </strong></font><br>
1338: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1339: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1340: Mentions
1341: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1342: and
1343: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1344: programs.
1345: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1346: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1347: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1348: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1349: <p>
1.325 ian 1350: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1351: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1352:
1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1354: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1355: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1356: </strong></font><br>
1357: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1358: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1359: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1360: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1361: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1362: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1363: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1364: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1365: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1366: put into service."
1367: <p>
1368: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1369: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1370: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1371: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1372: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1373: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1374: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1375: computers with security features."
1376: <p>
1.329 ian 1377:
1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1379: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1380: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1381: Slate,
1382: March 3, 2003.
1383: </strong></font><br>
1384: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1385: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1386: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1387: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1388: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1389: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1390: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1391: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1392: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1393: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1394: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1395: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1396: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1397: of more secure open-source solutions like
1398: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1399: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1400: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1401: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1402: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1403: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1404: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1405: the Beltway."
1406: <p>
1.251 ian 1407: </ul>
1408:
1.249 jufi 1409: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1410: <ul>
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1412: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1413: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1414: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1415: </strong></font><br>
1416: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1417: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1418: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1419: <p>
1.334 ian 1420:
1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1422: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1423: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1424: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1425: </strong></font><br>
1426: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1427: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1428: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1429: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1430: "... the hypothetical question ...
1431: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1432: <br>
1433: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1434: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1435: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1436: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1437: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1438: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1439: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1440: support network security.
1441: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1442: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1443: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1444: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1445: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1446: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1447: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1448: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1449: <br>
1450: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1451: <p>
1452:
1.249 jufi 1453: </ul>
1454:
1.246 jufi 1455: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1456: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1457:
1.247 jufi 1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1459: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1460: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1461: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1462: </strong></font><br>
1463: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1464: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.247 jufi 1467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1468: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1469: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1470: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1471: </strong></font><br>
1472: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1473: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1474: <p>
1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1477: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1478: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1479: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1480: </strong></font><br>
1481: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1482: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1483: <p>
1.247 jufi 1484: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1485:
1.244 jufi 1486: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1487: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1488:
1.247 jufi 1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1490: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1491: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1492: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1493: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1494: </strong></font><br>
1495: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1496: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1497: md5 digests.
1498: <p>
1499:
1.247 jufi 1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1501: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1502: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1503: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1504: </strong></font><br>
1505: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1506: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1507: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1508: right the first time."
1509: <p>
1.247 jufi 1510: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1511:
1512:
1513: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1514: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1515:
1.247 jufi 1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1517: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1518: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1519: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1520: </strong></font><br>
1521: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1522: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1523: part 6</a>.
1524: <p>
1525:
1.247 jufi 1526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1527: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1528: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1529: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1530: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1531: </strong></font><br>
1532: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1533: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1534: <p>
1.301 jose 1535:
1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1537: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1538: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1539: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1540: </strong></font><br>
1541:
1542: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1543: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1544: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1545: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1546: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1547: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1548: <i>Here's the
1549: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1550: <p>
1.247 jufi 1551: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1552:
1553: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1554: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1555:
1.247 jufi 1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1557: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1558: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1559: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1560: </strong></font><br>
1561: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1563: <p>
1564:
1.247 jufi 1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1566: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1567: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1568: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1569: </strong></font><br>
1570: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1571: this time using pf.
1572: <p>
1.247 jufi 1573: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1574:
1575: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1576: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1577:
1.247 jufi 1578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1579: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1580: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1581: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1582: </strong></font><br>
1583: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1584: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1585: their rotation.
1586: <p>
1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1589: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1590: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1591: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1592: </strong></font><br>
1593: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1594: <p>
1.247 jufi 1595: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1596:
1.239 jufi 1597: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1598: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1599:
1.247 jufi 1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1601: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1602: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1603: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1604: </strong></font><br>
1605: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1606: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1607: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1608: <p>
1609:
1.247 jufi 1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1611: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1612: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1613: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1614: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1615: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1616: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1617: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1618: <p>
1.247 jufi 1619: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1620:
1.235 lebel 1621: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1622: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1623:
1.239 jufi 1624:
1.247 jufi 1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1626: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1627: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1628: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1629: </strong></font><br>
1630: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1631: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1632: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1633: <p>
1.301 jose 1634:
1.247 jufi 1635: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1636:
1.228 horacio 1637: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1638: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1639:
1.247 jufi 1640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1641: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1642: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1643: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1644: </strong></font><br>
1645: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1646: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1647: <p>
1648:
1.247 jufi 1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1650: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1651: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1652: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1653: </strong></font><br>
1654: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1655: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1656: <p>
1657:
1.247 jufi 1658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1659: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1660: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1661: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1662: </strong></font><br>
1663: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1664: on the desktop of his parents.
1665: <p>
1666:
1.247 jufi 1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1668: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1669: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1670: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1671: </strong></font><br>
1672: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1673: using IPFilter.
1674:
1675: <p>
1676:
1.247 jufi 1677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1678: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1679: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1680: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1681: </strong></font><br>
1682: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1683: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1684: perspectives of the four OS.
1685: <br>
1686: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1687: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1688: <p>
1689:
1.247 jufi 1690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1691: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1692: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1693: software and security</a>,
1694: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1695: </strong></font><br>
1696:
1697: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1698: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1699: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1700: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1701: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1702: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1703: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1704: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1705: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1706: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1707: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1708: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1709: <p>
1.247 jufi 1710: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1711:
1.225 horacio 1712: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1713: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1714:
1.247 jufi 1715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1716: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1717: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1718: Interview</a>,
1719: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1720: </strong></font><br>
1721:
1722: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1723: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1724: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1725: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1726: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1727: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1728: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1729: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1730: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1731: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1732: of choice.
1733: <p>
1.247 jufi 1734: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1735:
1736: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1737: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1738:
1.247 jufi 1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1740: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1741: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1742: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1743: </strong></font><br>
1744:
1745: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1746: <p>
1747:
1.247 jufi 1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1749: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1750: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1751: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1752: </strong></font><br>
1753:
1754: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1755: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1756: <p>
1.247 jufi 1757: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1758:
1.218 horacio 1759: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1760: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1761:
1.247 jufi 1762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1763: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1764: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1765: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1766: </strong></font><br>
1767:
1768: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1769: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1770: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1771: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1772: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1773: subjects. Worth a read.
1774: <p>
1775:
1776:
1.247 jufi 1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1778: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1779: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1780: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1781: </strong></font><br>
1782:
1783: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1784: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1785: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1786: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1787: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1788: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1789: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1790: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1791: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1792: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1793: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1794: on other operating systems.<br>
1795: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1796: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1797: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1798: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1799: <p>
1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1802: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1803: Operating System 2010</a>,
1804: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1805: </strong></font><br>
1806:
1807: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1808: covering the level of software integration into the core
1809: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1810: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1811: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1812: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1813: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1814: <p>
1815:
1.247 jufi 1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1817: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1818: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1819: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1820: </strong></font><br>
1821:
1822: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1823: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1824: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1825: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1826: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1827: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1828: <p>
1.247 jufi 1829: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1830:
1.210 jufi 1831: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1832: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1833:
1.247 jufi 1834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1835: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1836: Already a Contender</a>,
1837: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1838: </strong></font><br>
1839:
1840: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1841: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1842: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1843: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1844: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1845: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1846: <p>
1847:
1.247 jufi 1848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1849: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1850: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1851: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1852: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1853:
1.224 horacio 1854: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1855: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1856: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1857: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1858: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1859: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1860: <p>
1.247 jufi 1861: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1862:
1863: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1864: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1865:
1.247 jufi 1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1867: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1868: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1869: Division</a>,
1870: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1871: </strong></font><br>
1872:
1873: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1874: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1875: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1876: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1877: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1878: investment</em>.<br>
1879: The implementation details can be seen on their
1880: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1881: <p>
1882:
1.247 jufi 1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1884: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1885: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1886: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1887: </strong></font><br>
1888:
1889: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1890: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1891: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1892: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1893: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1894: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1895: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1896: <p>
1897:
1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1899: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1900: Thinking about Security</a>,
1901: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1902: </strong></font><br>
1903:
1904: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1905: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1906: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1907: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1908: to time.<br>
1909: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1910: system and just the most secure system.
1911: <p>
1912:
1.247 jufi 1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1914: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1915: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1916: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1917: </strong></font><br>
1918:
1919: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1920: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1921: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1922: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1923: choice:<br>
1924: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1925: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1926: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1927: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1928: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1929: network security devices and as such must be well
1930: armored."</em><br>
1931: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1932: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1933: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1934: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1935: <br>
1936: Bravo!
1937: <p>
1.247 jufi 1938: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1939:
1.207 ian 1940: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1941: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1942:
1.247 jufi 1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1944: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1945: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1946: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1947:
1.207 ian 1948: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1949: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1950: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1951: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1952: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1953: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1954: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1955: <p>
1.247 jufi 1956: </ul>
1.207 ian 1957:
1.194 jufi 1958: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1959: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1960:
1.247 jufi 1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1962: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1963: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1964: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1965: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1966:
1.240 miod 1967: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1968: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1969: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1970: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1971: <p>
1972:
1.247 jufi 1973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1974: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1975: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1976: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1977:
1978: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1979: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1980: <p>
1981:
1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1983: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1984: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1985: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1986:
1987: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1988: <p>
1989:
1990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1991: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1992: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1993: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1994: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1995:
1.240 miod 1996: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1997: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1998: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1999: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
2000: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2001: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2002: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2003: <br>
2004: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
2005: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2006: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2007: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2008: <p>
2009:
1.247 jufi 2010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2011: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2012: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2013: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2014: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2015:
1.194 jufi 2016: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2017: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2018: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2019: <br>
2020: The new
2021: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2022: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2023: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2024: <p>
1.247 jufi 2025: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2026:
1.190 horacio 2027: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2028: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2029:
1.247 jufi 2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2031:
2032: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2033: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2034:
1.301 jose 2035:
1.191 jufi 2036: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2037: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2038:
2039: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2040: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2041:
1.212 horacio 2042: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2043: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2044: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2045:
1.211 horacio 2046: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2047: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2048: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2051: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2052:
1.247 jufi 2053: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2054: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2055:
1.212 horacio 2056: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2057: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2058: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2059:
2060: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2061: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2062:
2063: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2064: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2065:
1.301 jose 2066: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2067: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2068:
1.191 jufi 2069: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2070: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2071:
2072: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2073: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2074:
1.192 jufi 2075: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2076: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2077: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2078:
1.193 deraadt 2079: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2080: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2081: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2082:
1.247 jufi 2083: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2084: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2085:
1.247 jufi 2086: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2087: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2088: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2089:
1.213 horacio 2090: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2091: 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 2092: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2093:
1.190 horacio 2094: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2095: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2096: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2097: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2098: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2099: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2100: <p>
1.190 horacio 2101:
1.247 jufi 2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2103: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2104: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2105: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2106: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2107:
1.195 jufi 2108: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2109: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2110: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2111: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2112: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2113: <p>
2114:
1.247 jufi 2115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2116: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2117: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2118: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2119: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2120:
1.191 jufi 2121: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2122: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2123: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2124: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2125: <p>
2126:
2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2128: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2129: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2130: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2131:
2132: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2133: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2134: <p>
1.247 jufi 2135: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2136:
1.191 jufi 2137:
1.186 jufi 2138: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2139: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2140:
1.247 jufi 2141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2142: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2143: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2144: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2145: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2146:
1.188 jufi 2147: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2148: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2149: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2150: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2151: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2152: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2153: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2154: <p>
2155:
1.301 jose 2156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2157: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2158: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2159: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2160:
2161: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2162: <p>
1.191 jufi 2163:
1.247 jufi 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2165: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2166: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2167: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2168: </strong></font><br>
2169:
2170: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2171: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2172: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2173: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2174: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2175: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2176: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2177: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2178: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2179: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2180: familiar?
2181: <p>
1.247 jufi 2182: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2183:
1.178 louis 2184: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2185: <ul>
1.178 louis 2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2188: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2189: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2190: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2191: </strong></font><br>
2192:
2193: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2194: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2195: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2196: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2197: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2198: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2199: <p>
2200:
1.247 jufi 2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2202: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2203: Open source under the hood</a>,
2204: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2205: </strong></font><br>
2206:
2207: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2208: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2209: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2210: <p>
2211:
1.247 jufi 2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2213: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2214: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2215: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2216: </strong></font><br>
2217:
2218: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2219: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2220: <p>
1.247 jufi 2221: </ul>
1.179 louis 2222:
1.174 louis 2223:
1.175 louis 2224: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2225: <ul>
1.175 louis 2226:
1.247 jufi 2227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2228: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2229: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2230: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2231: </strong></font><br>
2232:
2233: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2234: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2235: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2236: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2237: <p>
2238:
1.247 jufi 2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2240: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2241: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2242: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2243: </strong></font><br>
2244:
2245: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2246: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2247: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2248: <p>
1.247 jufi 2249: </ul>
1.175 louis 2250:
1.176 louis 2251:
1.172 mickey 2252: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2253: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2254:
1.247 jufi 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2256: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2257: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2258: </strong></font><br>
2259:
2260: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2261: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2262: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2263: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2264: <p>
2265:
1.247 jufi 2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2267: <a
1.269 deraadt 2268: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2269: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2270: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2271: </strong></font><br>
2272:
2273: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2274: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2275: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2276: <p>
2277:
1.247 jufi 2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2279: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2280: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2281: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2282: </strong></font><br>
2283:
2284: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2285: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2286: <p>
2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2289: <a
1.269 deraadt 2290: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2291: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2292: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2293: </strong></font><br>
2294:
2295: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2296: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2297: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2298: our own Theo de Raadt.
2299: <p>
2300:
1.247 jufi 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2302: <a
1.269 deraadt 2303: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2304: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2305: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2306: </strong></font><br>
2307:
2308: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2309: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2310: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2311: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2312: shut down.]
2313: <p>
2314:
1.247 jufi 2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2316: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2317: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2318: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2319: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2320: </strong></font><br>
2321:
2322: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2323: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2324: <p>
1.247 jufi 2325: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2326:
1.161 louis 2327: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2328: <ul>
1.161 louis 2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2331: <a
1.269 deraadt 2332: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2333: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2334: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2335: </strong></font><br>
2336:
2337: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2338: by John Wolley
2339: <p>
2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2342: <a
1.269 deraadt 2343: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2344: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2345: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2346: </strong></font><br>
2347:
2348: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2349: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2350: OpenBSD).
2351: <p>
2352:
1.247 jufi 2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2354: <a
1.247 jufi 2355: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2356: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2360: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2361: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2362: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2363: and hindsight.
2364: <p>
2365:
1.247 jufi 2366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2367: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2368: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2369: </strong></font><br>
2370:
2371: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2372: <p>
2373:
1.247 jufi 2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2375: <a
1.168 provos 2376: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2377: December 7, 2000
2378: </strong></font><br>
2379:
2380: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2381: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2382: us explain.
2383: <p>
2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2386: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2387: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2388: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2389: December 6, 2000
2390: </strong></font><br>
2391:
2392: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2393: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2394: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2395: <p>
2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2398: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2399: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2400: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2401: </strong></font><br>
2402:
2403: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2404: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2405: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2406: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2407: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2408: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2409: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2410: <p>
2411:
2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2413: <a
1.226 horacio 2414: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2415: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2419: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2420: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2421: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2422: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2423: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2424: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2425: <p>
1.162 millert 2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2428: <a
1.161 louis 2429: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2430: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2431: </strong></font><br>
2432:
2433: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2434: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2435: <p>
2436:
1.247 jufi 2437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2438: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2439: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2440: </strong></font><br>
2441:
2442: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2443: <p>
2444:
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2447: <a
1.226 horacio 2448: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2449: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2450: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2451: </strong></font><br>
2452:
2453: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2454: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2455: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2456: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2457: <p>
1.247 jufi 2458: </ul>
1.169 louis 2459:
1.158 louis 2460: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2461: <ul>
1.147 louis 2462:
1.247 jufi 2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2464: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2465: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2466: </strong></font><br>
2467:
2468: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2469: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2470: <p>
2471:
1.247 jufi 2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2473: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2474: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2475: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2476: </strong></font><br>
2477: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2478: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2479: <p>
2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2482: <a
2483: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2484: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2485: </strong></font><br>
2486:
2487: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2488: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2489: <p>
2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2492: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2493: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2494: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2495:
1.213 horacio 2496: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2497: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2498: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2499: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2500: <p>
1.215 horacio 2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2503: <a
2504: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2505: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2506: </strong></font><br>
2507:
2508: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2509: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2510: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2511: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2512: much of the attitude too).
2513: <p>
1.161 louis 2514:
1.247 jufi 2515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2516: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2517: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2518: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2519:
1.157 louis 2520: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2521: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2522: <p>
1.247 jufi 2523: </ul>
1.157 louis 2524:
2525: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2526: <ul>
1.157 louis 2527:
1.247 jufi 2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2529: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2530: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2531: </strong></font><br>
2532:
2533: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2534: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2535: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2536: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2537: <p>
2538:
1.247 jufi 2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2540: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2541: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2542: </strong></font><br>
2543:
2544: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2545: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2546: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2547: it because they love coding...
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2551: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2552: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2553: </strong></font><br>
2554:
2555: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2556: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2557: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2558: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2559: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2560: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2561: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2562: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2563: <p>
2564:
1.247 jufi 2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2566: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2567: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2568: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2569: </strong></font><br>
2570:
2571: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2572: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2573: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2574: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2575: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2576: the pizza.
2577: <p>
2578:
1.247 jufi 2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2580: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2581: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2582: </strong></font><br>
2583:
2584: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2585: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2586: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2587: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2588: problems.
2589: <p>
2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2592: <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 2593: </strong></font><br>
2594:
1.222 miod 2595: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2596: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2597: - whether they like it or not.
2598: <p>
2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2601: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2602: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2603: </strong></font><br>
2604:
2605: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2606: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2607: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2608: <p>
1.148 aaron 2609:
1.247 jufi 2610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2611: <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 2612: </strong></font><br>
2613:
2614: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2615: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2616: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2617: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2618: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2619: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2620: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2621: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2622: <p>
2623:
1.247 jufi 2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2625: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2626: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628:
2629: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2630: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2631: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2632: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2633: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2634: <p>
1.247 jufi 2635: </ul>
1.147 louis 2636:
1.138 louis 2637: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2638: <ul>
1.138 louis 2639:
1.247 jufi 2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2641: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2642: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2643: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2644: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2645: </strong></font><br>
2646:
1.227 horacio 2647: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2648: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2649: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2650: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2651: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2652: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2653: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2654: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2655: <p>
2656:
1.247 jufi 2657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2658: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2659: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2660: </strong></font><br>
2661:
2662: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2663: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2664: groups, and even Linux.
2665: <p>
2666:
1.247 jufi 2667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2668: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2669: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2670: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2671: </strong></font><br>
2672:
2673: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2674: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2675: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2676: library after installing the OS.
2677: <p>
2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2680: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2681: Sys Admin, September 2000
2682: </strong></font><br>
2683:
2684: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2685: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2686: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2687: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2688: (<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>,
2689: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2690: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2691: <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 2692: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2693: out of the system.
2694: <p>
2695:
1.247 jufi 2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2697: <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
2698: </strong></font><br>
2699:
2700: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2701: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2702: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2703: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2704: the IP filtering and address translation.
2705: <p>
1.301 jose 2706:
2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2708: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2709: </strong></font><br>
2710:
2711: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2712: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2713: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2714: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2715: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2716: <p>
1.247 jufi 2717: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2718:
1.131 louis 2719: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2720: <ul>
1.131 louis 2721:
1.247 jufi 2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2723: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2724: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2725: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2726: </strong></font><br>
2727:
2728: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2729: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2730: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2731: <p>
2732:
1.247 jufi 2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2734: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2735: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2736: </strong></font><br>
2737:
2738: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2739: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2740: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2741: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2742: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2743: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2744: note of"</i>.
2745: <p>
2746:
1.247 jufi 2747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2748: <a
1.247 jufi 2749: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2750: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2751: </strong></font><br>
2752:
2753: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2754: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2755: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2756: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2757: <p>
2758:
1.247 jufi 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2760: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2761: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2762: </strong></font><br>
2763:
2764: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2765: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2766: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2767: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2768: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2769: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2770: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2771: <p>
2772:
1.247 jufi 2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2774: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2775: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2776: 2000
2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
2779: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2780: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2781: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2782: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2783: against current industry practices.
2784: <p>
2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2787: <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
2788: </strong></font><br>
2789:
2790: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2791: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2792: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2793: <p>
2794:
1.247 jufi 2795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2796: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2797: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2798: </strong></font><br>
2799:
2800: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2801: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2802: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2803: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2804: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2805: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2806: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2807: <p>
2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2810: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2811: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2812: </strong></font><br>
2813:
2814: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2815: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2816: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2817: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2818: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2819: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2820: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2821: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2822: <p>
1.247 jufi 2823: </ul>
1.131 louis 2824:
1.118 louis 2825: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2826: <ul>
1.118 louis 2827:
1.247 jufi 2828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2829: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2830: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2831: </strong></font><br>
2832:
2833: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2834: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2835: about time. The article mentions that
2836: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2837: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2838: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2839: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2840: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2841: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2842: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2843: <p>
2844:
1.247 jufi 2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2846: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2847: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2848: </strong></font><br>
2849:
2850: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2851: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2852: of OpenSSH.
2853: <p>
2854:
1.247 jufi 2855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2856: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2857: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2858: </strong></font><br>
2859:
2860: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2861: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2862: bridging.
2863: <p>
2864:
1.247 jufi 2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2866: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2867: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2868: </strong></font><br>
2869:
1.121 deraadt 2870: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2871: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2872: <p>
2873:
1.247 jufi 2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2875: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2876: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2877: </strong></font><br>
2878:
2879: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2880: <p>
2881:
1.247 jufi 2882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2883: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2884: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2885: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2886: </strong></font><br>
2887:
1.120 deraadt 2888: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2889: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2890: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2891: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2892: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2893: <p>
2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2896: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2897: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2898: </strong></font><br>
2899:
1.222 miod 2900: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2901: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2902: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2903: protocols and their quirks.
2904: <p>
2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2907: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2908: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2909: </strong></font><br>
2910:
2911: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2912: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2913: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2914: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2915: <p>
2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2918: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2919: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2920: </strong></font><br>
2921:
2922: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2923: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2924: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2925: <p>
2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2928: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2929: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2930: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2931: </strong></font><br>
2932:
2933: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2934: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2935: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2936: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2937: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2938: <p>
1.247 jufi 2939: </ul>
1.118 louis 2940:
1.104 louis 2941: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2942: <ul>
1.104 louis 2943:
1.247 jufi 2944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2945: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2946: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2947: </strong></font><br>
2948:
2949: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2950: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2951: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2952: be a bit dry.
2953: <p>
2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2956: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2957: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2958: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2959: </strong></font><br>
2960: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2961: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2962: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2963: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2964: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2965: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2966: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2967: <p>
2968:
1.247 jufi 2969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2970: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2971: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2972: 2000
1.128 louis 2973: </strong></font><br>
2974:
2975: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2976: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2977: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2978: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2979: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2980: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2981: <p>
2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2984: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2985: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2986: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2987:
2988: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2989: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2990: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2991: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2992: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2993: <p>
1.110 louis 2994:
1.247 jufi 2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2996: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2997: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2998: </strong></font><br>
2999:
3000: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3001: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3002: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3003: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3004: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3005: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3006: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3007: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3008: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3009: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3010: <p>
3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3013: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3014: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3015:
3016: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3017: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3018: <p>
1.108 louis 3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3021: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3022: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3023: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3024:
3025: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3026: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3027: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3028: <p>
1.106 louis 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3031: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3032: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3033: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3034:
3035: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3036: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3037: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3038: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3039: <p>
1.107 louis 3040:
1.247 jufi 3041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3042: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3043: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3044: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3045:
3046: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3047: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3048: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3049: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3050: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3051: <p>
1.105 louis 3052:
1.247 jufi 3053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3054: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3055: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3056: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3057:
1.113 naddy 3058: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3059: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3060: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3061: <p>
1.104 louis 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3064: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3065: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3066: </strong></font><br>
3067:
3068: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3069: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3070: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3071: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3072: <p>
1.301 jose 3073:
3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3075: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3076: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3077: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3078:
3079: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3080: hardware-supported cryptography.
3081: <p>
1.247 jufi 3082: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3083:
1.85 louis 3084: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3085: <ul>
1.85 louis 3086:
1.247 jufi 3087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3088: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3089: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3090: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3091:
3092: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3093: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3094: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3095: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3096: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3097: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3098: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3099: <p>
1.99 louis 3100:
1.247 jufi 3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3102: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3103: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3104: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3105:
3106: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3107: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3108: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3109: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3110: <p>
1.100 louis 3111:
1.247 jufi 3112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3113: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3114: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3115: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3116:
3117: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3118: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3119: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3120: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3121: <p>
1.95 louis 3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3124: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3125: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3126: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3127:
3128: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3129: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3130: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3131: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3132: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3133: <p>
1.92 louis 3134:
1.247 jufi 3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3136: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3137: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3138: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3139:
3140: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3141: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3142: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3143: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3144: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3145: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3146: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3147: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3148: <p>
1.91 louis 3149:
1.247 jufi 3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3151: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3152: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3153: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3154:
3155: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3156: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3157: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3158: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3159: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3160: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3161: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3162: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3163: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3164: <p>
1.90 louis 3165:
1.247 jufi 3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3167: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3168: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3169: </strong></font><br>
3170: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3171: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3172: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3173: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3174: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3175: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3176: <p>
3177:
1.247 jufi 3178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3179: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3180: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3181: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3182:
1.113 naddy 3183: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3184: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3185: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3186: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3187: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3188: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3189: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.87 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3193: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3194: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3196:
3197: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3198: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3199: <p>
1.85 louis 3200:
1.247 jufi 3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3202: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3203: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3204: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3205:
3206: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3207: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3208: <p>
3209:
3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3211: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3212: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3213: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3214:
3215: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3216: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3217: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3218: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3219: <p>
1.89 louis 3220:
1.247 jufi 3221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3222: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3223: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3224: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3225:
3226: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3227: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3228: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3229: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3230: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3231: </ul>
1.85 louis 3232:
1.78 deraadt 3233: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3234: <ul>
1.74 louis 3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3237: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3238: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3239: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3240: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3241:
3242: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3243: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3244: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3245: <p>
1.83 louis 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3248: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3249: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3250: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3251:
3252: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3253: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3254: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3255: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3256: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3257: <p>
1.93 louis 3258:
1.247 jufi 3259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3260: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3261: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3262: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3263: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3264:
1.83 louis 3265: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3266: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3267: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3268: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3269: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3270: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3271: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3272: <p>
1.82 aaron 3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3275: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3276: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3277: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3278:
1.83 louis 3279: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3280: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3281: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3282: <p>
1.80 louis 3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3285: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3286: Bad Press</a>,
3287: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3289:
3290: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3291: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3292: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3293: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3294: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3295: <p>
1.247 jufi 3296: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3297:
3298: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3299: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3300:
1.247 jufi 3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3302: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3303: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3304: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3305: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3306:
3307: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3308: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3309: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3310: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3311: <p>
1.74 louis 3312:
1.247 jufi 3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3314: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3315: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3316: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3317:
1.219 horacio 3318: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3319: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3320: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3321: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3322: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3323: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3324: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3325: <p>
1.88 louis 3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3328: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3329: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3330: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3331:
3332: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3333: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3334: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3335: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3336: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3337: <p>
1.81 louis 3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3340: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3341: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3342: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3343:
3344: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3345: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3346: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3347: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3348: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3349: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3350: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3351: <p>
1.90 louis 3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3354: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3355: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3356: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3357:
3358: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3359: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3360: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3361: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3362: <p>
1.247 jufi 3363: </ul>
1.71 louis 3364:
1.69 deraadt 3365: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3366: <ul>
1.70 louis 3367:
1.247 jufi 3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3369: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3370: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3371: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3372:
3373: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3374: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3375: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3376: <p>
1.70 louis 3377:
1.247 jufi 3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3379: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3380: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3381: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3382:
3383: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3384: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3385: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3386: <p>
1.68 louis 3387:
1.247 jufi 3388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3389: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3390: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3391: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3392: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3393:
1.111 jufi 3394: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3395: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3396: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3397: "secure by default" installation.
3398: <p>
1.64 louis 3399:
1.247 jufi 3400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3401: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3402: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3403: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3404:
1.113 naddy 3405: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3406: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3407: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3408: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3409: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3410: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3411: <p>
1.66 louis 3412:
1.247 jufi 3413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3414: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3415: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3416: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3417:
3418: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3419: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3420: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3421: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3422: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3423: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3424: <p>
1.83 louis 3425:
1.247 jufi 3426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3427: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3428: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3429: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3430:
3431: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3432: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3433: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3434: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3435: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3436: <p>
1.64 louis 3437:
1.247 jufi 3438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3439: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3440: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3441: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3442:
3443: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3444: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3445: <p>
1.301 jose 3446:
3447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3448: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3449: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3450: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3451: </strong></font><br>
3452:
3453: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3454: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3455: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3456: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3457: Giving way to
3458: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3459: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3460: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3461: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3462: <p>
1.247 jufi 3463: </ul>
1.65 louis 3464:
1.69 deraadt 3465: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3466: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3469: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3470: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3471: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3472:
3473: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3474: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3475: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3476: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3477: <p>
1.88 louis 3478:
1.247 jufi 3479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3480: <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 3481: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3482:
3483: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3484: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3485: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3486: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3487: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3488: <p>
1.60 louis 3489:
1.247 jufi 3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3491: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3492: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3493: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3494: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3495:
3496: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3497: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3498: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3499: <p>
1.58 louis 3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3502: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3503: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3504:
3505: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3506: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3507: <p>
1.53 louis 3508:
1.247 jufi 3509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3510: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3511: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3512: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3513:
3514: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3515: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3516: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3517: <p>
1.99 louis 3518:
1.247 jufi 3519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3520: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3521: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3522:
3523: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3524: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3525: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3526: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3527: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3528:
1.247 jufi 3529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3530: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3531: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3532: </strong></font><br>
3533:
3534: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3535: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3536: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3537: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3538: <p>
3539:
1.247 jufi 3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3541: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3542: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3543: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3544:
3545: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3546: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3547: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3550: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3551: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3552:
3553: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3554: in
1.247 jufi 3555: <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 3556: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3557: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3558: <p>
1.53 louis 3559:
1.247 jufi 3560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3561: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3562: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3563: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3564: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3565:
1.58 louis 3566: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3567: <p>
1.301 jose 3568:
3569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3570: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3571: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3572: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3573: Informacyjny, January 2000
3574: </strong></font><br>
3575:
3576: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3577: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3578: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3579: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3580: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3581: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3582: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3583: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3584: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3585: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3586: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3587: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3588: <p>
3589:
3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3591: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3592: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3593: </strong></font><br>
3594:
3595: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3596: <p>
3597: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3598:
1.69 deraadt 3599: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3600: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3603: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3604: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3605: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3606: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3607:
1.58 louis 3608: Kurt Seifried
3609: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3610: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3611: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3612: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3613:
1.247 jufi 3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3615: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3616: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3617: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3618:
3619: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3620: <p>
1.96 louis 3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3623: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3624: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3625: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3626: </strong></font><br>
3627:
3628: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3629: <p>
3630:
3631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3632: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3633: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3634: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3635:
3636: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3637: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3638: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3639: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3640: <p>
1.247 jufi 3641: </ul>
1.86 louis 3642:
1.69 deraadt 3643: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3644: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3645:
1.247 jufi 3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3647: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3648: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3649: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3650:
3651: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3652: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3653: <p>
1.61 louis 3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3656: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3657: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3658: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3659: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3660:
3661: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3662: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3663: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3664: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3665: right -- or at least strives to".
3666: <p>
1.48 louis 3667:
1.247 jufi 3668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3669: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3670: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3671: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3672: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3673: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3674: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3675: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3676: <p>
1.61 louis 3677:
1.247 jufi 3678: <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 3679: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3680: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3681:
3682: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3683: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3684: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3685: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3686: <p>
1.46 louis 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3689: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3690: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3691: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3692:
3693: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3694: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3695: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3698: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3699: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3700: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3701:
3702: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3703: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3704: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3705: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3706: <p>
1.247 jufi 3707: </ul>
1.70 louis 3708:
1.69 deraadt 3709: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3710: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3713: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3714: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3715: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3716: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3717:
3718: Kurt Seifried
3719: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3720: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3721: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3722: <p>
1.44 philen 3723:
1.247 jufi 3724: <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 3725: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3726: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3727:
3728: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3729: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <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 3732: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3733: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3734:
3735: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3736: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <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 3739: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3740: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3741:
3742: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3743: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3744: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3745: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3746: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3747:
1.247 jufi 3748: <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 3749: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3750: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3751:
1.36 louis 3752: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3753: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3754:
1.247 jufi 3755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3756: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3757: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3758: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3759:
3760: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3761: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3762: </ul>
1.38 louis 3763:
1.69 deraadt 3764: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3765: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <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 3768: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3769: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3770:
3771: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3772: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3773: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3774:
1.113 naddy 3775: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3776: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3777: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3778: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3779:
3780: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3781: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3782: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3783: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3784: <blockquote>
3785: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3786: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3787: <br>
3788: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3789: </code>
3790: </blockquote>
3791: <p>
3792:
1.247 jufi 3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3794: <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 3795: <p>
3796:
3797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3798: <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 3799: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3800:
3801: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3802: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3803: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3804: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3807: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3808: Sept. 28, 1999
3809: </strong></font><br>
3810:
3811: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3812: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3813: translating and reprinting articles from
3814: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3815: <p>
3816:
3817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3818: <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 3819: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3820:
3821: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3822: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3823: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3824: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3825: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3826: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3827: <p>
1.19 louis 3828:
1.113 naddy 3829: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3830: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3831: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3832:
3833: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3834: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3835: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3836: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3837: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3838: <p>
1.16 louis 3839:
1.247 jufi 3840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3841: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3842: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3843: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3844:
1.57 louis 3845: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3846: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3847: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3848: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3849:
1.247 jufi 3850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3851: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3852: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3853: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3854:
1.113 naddy 3855: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3858: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3859: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3860: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3861:
1.23 louis 3862: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3863: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3864: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3865: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3866: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3867: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3868:
1.247 jufi 3869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3870: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3871: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3872: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3873:
1.199 pvalchev 3874: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3875: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3876: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3877: installation.
1.113 naddy 3878: <p>
1.47 louis 3879:
1.247 jufi 3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3881: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3882: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3883: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3884:
1.301 jose 3885: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3886: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3887: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3888: </ul>
1.57 louis 3889:
1.69 deraadt 3890: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3891: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3892:
1.247 jufi 3893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3894: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3895: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3896: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3897:
3898: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3899: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3900: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3901: <p>
1.12 louis 3902:
1.247 jufi 3903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3904: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3905: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3906: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3907:
3908: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3909: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3910: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3911: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3912: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3913: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3914: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3915: <p>
1.247 jufi 3916: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3917:
1.69 deraadt 3918: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3919: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3920:
1.247 jufi 3921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3922: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3923: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3924:
3925: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3926: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3927: available."
1.113 naddy 3928: <p>
1.301 jose 3929:
3930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3931: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3932: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3933: </strong></font><br>
3934:
3935: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3936: <p>
1.247 jufi 3937: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3938:
1.69 deraadt 3939: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3940: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3941:
1.247 jufi 3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3943: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3944: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3945:
3946: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3947: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3948: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3949: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3950: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3951: <p>
1.33 louis 3952:
1.247 jufi 3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3954: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3955: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3956: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3957:
1.113 naddy 3958: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3959: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3960: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3961: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3962: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3963: <p>
1.247 jufi 3964: </ul>
1.57 louis 3965:
1.69 deraadt 3966: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3967: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3968:
1.247 jufi 3969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3970: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3971: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3972: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3973:
3974: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3975: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3976: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3977:
1.247 jufi 3978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3979: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3980: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3981: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3982: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3983:
3984: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3985: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3986:
1.247 jufi 3987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3988: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3989:
1.113 naddy 3990: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3991:
1.247 jufi 3992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3993: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3994: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3995: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3996:
3997: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3998: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3999: </ul>
1.23 louis 4000:
1.69 deraadt 4001: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4002: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4003:
1.247 jufi 4004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4005: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4006: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4007:
4008: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4009: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4010: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4011:
1.247 jufi 4012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4013: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4014: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4015: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4016:
4017: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4018: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4019: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4020: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4021: </ul>
1.57 louis 4022:
1.69 deraadt 4023: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4024: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4025:
1.247 jufi 4026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4027: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4028: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4029: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4030:
4031: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4032: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4033: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4034: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4035: <p>
1.15 louis 4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4038: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4039: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4040: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4041:
4042: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4043: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4044: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4045: columns."
1.113 naddy 4046: <p>
1.247 jufi 4047: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4048:
1.69 deraadt 4049: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4050: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4053: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4054: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4055: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4056:
4057: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4058: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4059:
1.113 naddy 4060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4061: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4062: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4063:
4064: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4065: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4066: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4067: </ul>
1.57 louis 4068:
1.69 deraadt 4069: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4070: <ul>
1.301 jose 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4072: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4073: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4074: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4075:
4076: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4077: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4078: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4079: <p>
4080:
4081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4082: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4083: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4084: Nov 13, 1998 and
4085: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4086: Datateknik</a>,
4087: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4088:
1.380 saad 4089: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4090: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4091: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4092: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4093: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4094:
1.113 naddy 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4096: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4097: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4098: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4099:
1.222 miod 4100: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4101: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4102: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4103: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4104: <p>
1.247 jufi 4105: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4106:
1.69 deraadt 4107: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4108: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4109:
1.247 jufi 4110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4111: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4112: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4113:
1.69 deraadt 4114: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4115: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4116: <p>
1.247 jufi 4117: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4118:
1.69 deraadt 4119: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4120: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4121:
1.247 jufi 4122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4123: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4124: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4125: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4126:
1.383 jcs 4127: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4128: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4129: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4130:
1.247 jufi 4131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4132: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4133: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4134: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4135: <p>
1.247 jufi 4136: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4137:
1.69 deraadt 4138: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4139: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4140:
1.247 jufi 4141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4142: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4143: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4144: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4145: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4146: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4147:
4148: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4149: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4150: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4151: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4152: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4153: <p>
1.247 jufi 4154: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4155:
4156: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4157: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4158:
1.247 jufi 4159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4160: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4161: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4162:
1.69 deraadt 4163: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4164: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4165: <p>
1.112 naddy 4166:
1.247 jufi 4167: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4168: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4169:
1.292 camield 4170: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4171: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4172: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.402 ! marco 4173: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.401 2004/09/03 04:34:57 saad Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4174:
4175: </body>
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