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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.400 marco 19: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 ! jolan 22: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
! 23: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
! 24: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
! 27: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
! 28: <p>
! 29: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 30: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
31: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 32: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 33: </strong></font><br>
34: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
35: <p>
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 37: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
38: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 39: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 40: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 41: 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 42: <p>
43: </ul>
44:
1.396 henning 45: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
46: <ul>
47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.398 henning 48: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
49: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
50: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
51: </strong></font><br>
52: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
53: <p>
54: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.399 henning 55: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
56: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
57: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
58: </strong></font><br>
59: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
60: <p>
61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 62: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
63: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
64: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
65: </strong></font><br>
66: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
67: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
68: <p>
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 70: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
71: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
72: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
73: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
74: <p>
75: </ul>
76:
1.393 david 77: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
78: <ul>
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 80: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
81: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
82: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
83: </strong></font><br>
84: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
85: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
86: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
87: on inserting large number of SQL records.
88: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
89: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
90: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 94: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
95: Secure by Default</a>,
96: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
97: </strong></font><br>
98: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
99: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
103: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
104: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
105: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
106: </strong></font><br>
107: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
108: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
109: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
110: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
111: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
112: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
116: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
117: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
118: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
119: </strong></font><br>
120: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
121: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
122: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
126: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
127: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
128: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
129: </strong></font><br>
130: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
131: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
132: <p>
133: </ul>
134:
1.388 mcbride 135: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
136: <ul>
1.394 jolan 137:
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
139: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
140: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
141: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
142: </strong></font><br>
143: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
144: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
145: available for sparc64.
146: <p>
147:
1.390 beck 148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
150: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
151: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
152: </strong></font><br>
153: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
154: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
155: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
156: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 160: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
161: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 162: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 163: </strong></font><br>
164: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
165: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
166: it does: CARP provides sharing
167: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
168: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
169: detail to get you started using it.
170: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
171: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
172: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
173: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
174: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
175: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
176: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 177: <p>
1.391 ian 178:
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 180: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 181: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
182: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 183: </strong></font><br>
184: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 185: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 186: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 187: <p>
1.388 mcbride 188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
190: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
191: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 192: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 193: </strong></font><br>
194: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
195: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
196: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
197: unencumbered by patents.
198: <p>
199: </ul>
200:
1.378 henning 201: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
202: <ul>
1.384 jose 203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 205: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
206: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
207: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
208: </strong></font><br>
209: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
210: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
211: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
212: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
213: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
214: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
215: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
216: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
217: in the page tables."
218: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
219: <p>
220:
221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 222: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
223: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
224: </strong></font><br>
225: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
226: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
227: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
228: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 229: <p>
1.384 jose 230:
1.378 henning 231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 232: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
233: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 234: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
235: </strong></font><br>
236: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
237: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
238: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
239: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
240: (quote:
241: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
242: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 243: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 244: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
245: the other developers for their work on the system.
246: <p>
247:
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 249: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
250: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
251: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 252: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 253: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
254: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
255: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
256: too.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 260: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
261: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 262: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 263: OpenBSD source code using
264: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
265: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
266: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
267: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
268: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
269: <p>
270: </ul>
271:
1.374 jose 272: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
273: <ul>
274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 275: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 276: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
277: </strong></font><br>
278: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
279: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
280: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
281: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
282: it."
283: <p>
284:
285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 286: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
287: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
288: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
289: </strong></font><br/>
290: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
291: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
292: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
293: <p>
294: </ul>
295:
1.369 ian 296: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
297: <ul>
298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 299: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
300: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
301: </strong></font><br/>
302: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
303: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
304: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
305: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
306: <p>
307:
308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 309: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
310: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
311: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
312: </strong></font><br/>
313: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
314: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
315: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
316: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
317: form factor.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
321: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
322: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
323: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
324: Features</a>,
325: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
326: </strong></font><br/>
327: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
328: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
329: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
330: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
331: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
332: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
333: <p>
334: This article can also be found online at:
335: <ul>
336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 337: <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 338: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
339: </strong></font>
340: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
341: </ul>
342: <p>
1.392 david 343:
1.371 jose 344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 345: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
346: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 347: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
348: </strong></font><br/>
349: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
350: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
351: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 352: <p>
1.371 jose 353:
354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 355: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 356: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 357: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 358: </strong></font><br/>
359: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
360: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
361: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
362: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
363: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
364: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
365: and its history with OpenBSD.
366: </ul>
367:
1.368 henning 368: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
369: <ul>
370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 371: [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 372: </strong></font><br>
373: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
374: </ul>
375:
1.364 jose 376: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
377: <ul>
378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 379: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
380: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
381: UNIX Review,
382: July, 2003.
383: </strong></font><br>
384: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
385: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
386: who want more information.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 390: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
391: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
392: Government Computer News,
393: July 22, 2003.
394: </strong></font><br>
395: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
396: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
397: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
398: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
402: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
403: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
404: SANS Institute,
405: July 22, 2003.
406: </strong></font><br>
407: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 408: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 409: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
410: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
411: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
412: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
413: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
414: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
415: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
416: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
417: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 421: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
422: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
423: OnLamp.com,
424: July 17, 2003.
425: </strong></font><br>
426: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
427: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
428: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
429: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
430: have been working on.
431:
432: </ul>
433:
1.356 jose 434: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 435: <ul>
436:
437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 438: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
439: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
440: UNIX Review,
441: June, 2003.
442: </strong></font><br>
443: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
444: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
445: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
446: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 450: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
451: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
452: eWeek,
453: June 23, 2003.
454: </strong></font><br>
455: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
456: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
457: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
458: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
459: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
460: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
461: <p>
462:
463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 464: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
465: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
466: Software Development Online,
467: June, 2003.
468: </strong></font><br>
469: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
470: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
471: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
472: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
473: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
474: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
475: current activities.
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 479: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
480: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 481: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
482: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
483: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
484: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
485: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
486: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
487: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
488: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 489: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 490: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
491: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
492: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
493: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
494: decisions.
495: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
496: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
497: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
498: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 502: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
503: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
504: Page 58, eWeek,
505: June 2, 2003.
506: </strong></font><br>
507: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
508: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
509: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
510: been addressed in -current.
511: <p>
512:
1.356 jose 513: </ul>
514:
515: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
516: <ul>
517:
1.355 jose 518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 519: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
520: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
521: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
522: </strong></font><br>
523: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
524: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
525: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
526: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
527: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
528: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
529: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 533: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
534: Beyond Linux</a>,
535: InfoWorld,
536: May 23, 2003.
537: </strong></font><br>
538: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
539: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
540: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
541: compared to the GPL.
542: <p>
543:
544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 545: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
546: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
547: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 548: May 17, 2003.
549: </strong></font><br>
550: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
551: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
552: the business section and half of another page inside
553: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
554: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
555: in talking about the project's history and goals.
556: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
557: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
558: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
559: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 560: <br>
561: This article can also be found online at:
562: <ul>
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
564: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
565: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
566: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
567: May 17, 2003
568: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 569: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
571: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
572: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
573: Montreal Gazette,
574: May 21, 2003
575: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 576: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 577: <p>
1.346 ian 578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 580: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 581: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 582: May 7, 2003.
583: </strong></font><br>
584: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
585: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
586: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
587: <p>
588:
589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 590: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
591: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
592: OsOpinion,
593: May 6, 2003.
594: </strong></font><br>
595: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
596: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
597: <br>
598: This article can also be found online at:
599: <ul>
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
601: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
602: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
603: NewsFactor Network.
604: </strong></font>
605: </ul>
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 609: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 610: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
611: ITBusiness,
612: May 2, 2003.
613: </strong></font><br>
614: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
615: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
616: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
617: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
618: <p>
619:
620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 621: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
622: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
623: InfoWorld,
624: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 625: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 626: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
627: <br>
628: This article can also be found online at:
629: <ul>
630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
631: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
632: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
633: IDG Singapore.
634: </strong></font>
635: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 636: <p>
637:
1.339 jose 638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
639: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
640: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 641: ZDNet,
642: May 1, 2003.
643: </strong></font><br>
644: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 645: someone using parts from previous articles.
646: <br>
1.341 deraadt 647: This article can also be found online at:
648: <ul>
649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
650: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
651: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
652: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 653: </strong></font>
654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
655: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
656: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
657: CNET News.com.
658: </strong></font>
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
660: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
661: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
662: ZDNet UK.
663: </strong></font>
664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
665: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
666: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
667: Help Net Security, Croatia.
668: </strong></font>
669: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 670: <p>
1.339 jose 671:
1.341 deraadt 672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 673: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 674: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
675: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
676: May 1, 2003.
677: </strong></font><br>
678: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
679: that have been added
680: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
681: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
682: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 683: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 684: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
685: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
686: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 687: <p>
688:
689: </ul>
690:
1.253 ian 691: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
692: <ul>
1.255 ian 693:
1.260 ian 694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 695: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 696: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
697: TechRepublic,
698: April 28, 2003.
699: </strong></font><br>
700: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
701: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 702: work.<br>
703: Can also be found online at:
704: <ul>
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
706: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
707: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
708: ZDNet UK.
709: </strong></font>
710: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 711: <p>
712:
713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 714: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
715: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
716: IDG,
717: April 24, 2003.
718: </strong></font><br>
719: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
720: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
721: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
722: Can also be found online at:
723: <ul>
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
725: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
726: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 727: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 728: </strong></font>
729: </ul>
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
733: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 734: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 735: Slate,
736: April 24, 2003.
737: </strong></font><br>
738: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
739: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
740: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
741: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
742: <p>
743:
744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 745: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
746: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
747: April 24, 2003.
748: </strong></font><br>
749: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
750: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
751: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
752: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 756: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
757: April 24, 2003.
758: </strong></font><br>
759: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
760: the free software community".
761: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
762: other articles.
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 766: <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 767: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
768: </strong></font><br>
769: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
770: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
771: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
772: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
773: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
774: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
775: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
776: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
777: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
778: <br/>
779: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
780: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
781: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
782: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 783: <br>
784: Can also be found online at:
785: <ul>
786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
787: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
788: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
789: Common Dreams NewsCenter
790: </strong></font>
791: </ul>
1.324 ian 792: <p>
793:
794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
795: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
796: Wired, April 24, 2003.
797: </strong></font><br>
798: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
799: article above.
800: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
801: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
802: wasting them."
1.332 ian 803: <br>
804: Can also be found online at:
805: <ul>
806: <li>
807: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
808: </strong></font>
809: </ul>
1.324 ian 810: <p>
811:
812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 813: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
814: </strong></font><br>
815: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
816: <p>
817:
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 819: <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.
820: </strong></font><br>
821: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
822: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 826: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
827: April 23, 2003.
828: </strong></font><br>
829: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 833: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 834: April 22, 2003.
835: </strong></font><br>
836: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 840: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
841: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
842: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 843: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 844: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
845: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
846: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
847: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
848: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
849: Can also be found online at:
850: <ul>
851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
852: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 853: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
854: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 855: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
857: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 858: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
859: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 860: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 861: </ul>
862: <p>
863:
864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 865: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
866: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 867: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 868: </strong></font><br>
869: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 870: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
871: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
872: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
873: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
874: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
875: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 876: <p>
877:
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 879: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
880: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 881: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
882: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 883: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
884: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
885: at UPenn and DARPA.
886: <p>
887:
888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 889: [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,
890: France
1.315 deraadt 891: April 18, 2003.
892: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 893: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 894: <p>
895:
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 897: [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 898: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 899: </strong></font><br>
900: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
901: <p>
902:
903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 904: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
905: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
906: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 907: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 908: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
909: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
910: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
911: <p>
912:
913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 914: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
915: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 916: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 917: </strong></font><br>
918: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
919: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
920: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 921: American century.
1.267 deraadt 922: <p>
923:
924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 925: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
926: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 927: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 928: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 929: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
930: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
931: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
932: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
933: Can also be found online at:
934: <ul>
935: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
936: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 937: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 938: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 939: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 940: <p>
941:
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 943: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 944: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 945: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 946: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 947: </strong></font><br>
948: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 949: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
950: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
951: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
952: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 953:
954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
955: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
956: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
957: New York Times.
958: </strong></font>(free registration required)
959:
1.273 deraadt 960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
961: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 962: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 963: ABC News.
964: </strong></font>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 967: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 968: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 969: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 970: </strong></font>
971:
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 973: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 974: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 975: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 976: </strong></font>
977:
978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 979: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
980: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 981: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 982: </strong></font>
983:
984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 985: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 986: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 987: Times Daily, AL.
988: </strong></font>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
991: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
992: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
993: Boston.com, MA.
994: </strong></font>
995:
996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 997: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 998: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 999: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1000: </strong></font>
1001:
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1003: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1004: [Article was pulled]</a>
1005: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1006: </strong></font>
1007:
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1010: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1011: Infoshop News.
1012: </strong></font>
1013:
1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1015: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1016: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1017: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1018: </strong></font>
1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1021: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1022: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1023: Raleigh News, NC.
1024: </strong></font>
1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1027: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1028: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1029: Napa News, CA.
1030: </strong></font>
1031:
1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1033: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1034: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1035: NEPA News, PA.
1036: </strong></font>
1037:
1038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1039: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1040: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1041: Wired News.
1042: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1043: <br>
1044: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1045: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1046: [JAPANESE]
1047: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1048: Wired News Japan</a>
1049: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1050:
1.271 deraadt 1051: </ul>
1052: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1053: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1054: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1055: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1056: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1057: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1058: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1059: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1060: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1061: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1062: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1063: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1064: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1065: <p>
1066: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1067:
1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1069: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1070: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1071: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1072: </strong></font>
1073:
1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1075: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1076: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1077: Miami Herald, FL.
1078: </strong></font>
1079:
1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1081: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1082: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1083: </strong></font>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1086: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1087: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1088: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1089: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1090:
1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1092: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1093: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1094: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1095: ABC News.
1096: </strong></font>
1097:
1.276 deraadt 1098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1099: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1100: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1101: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1102: </strong></font>
1103:
1.286 dhartmei 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1105: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1106: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1107: Wilmington Star, NC.
1108: </strong></font>
1109:
1.300 jose 1110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1111: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1112: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1113: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1114: </strong></font>
1115:
1.309 jose 1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1117: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1118: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1119: Globe Technology.
1120: </strong></font>
1121:
1.263 deraadt 1122: </ul>
1.262 beck 1123: <p>
1124:
1125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1126: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1127: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1128: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1129: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1130: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1131: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1132: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1133: <p>
1134:
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1136: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1137: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1138: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1139: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1140: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1141: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1142: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1143: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1144: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1145: and simply restates other press reports.
1146: <p>
1147:
1148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1149: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1150: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1151: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1152: </strong></font><br>
1153: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1154: <p>
1155:
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1157: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1158: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1159: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1160: </strong></font><br>
1161: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1162: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1163: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1164: <p>
1165:
1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1167: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1168: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1169: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1170: April 17, 2003.
1171: </strong></font><br>
1172: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1173: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1174: Tech Anthems</a>
1175: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1176: 4 so far.
1177: <p>
1178:
1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1180: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1181: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1182: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1183: </strong></font><br>
1184: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1185: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1186: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1187: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1188: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1189: Goes on to say:
1190: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1191: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1192: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1193: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1194: This article is also found online at:
1195: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1197: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1198: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1199: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1200: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1202: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1203: ZDnet</a>,
1204: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1205: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1207: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1208: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1209: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1210: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1211: </ul>
1.260 ian 1212: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1213:
1.260 ian 1214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1215: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1216: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1217: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1218: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1219: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1220: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1221: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1222: without notice or justification.
1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1226: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1227: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1228: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1229: </strong></font><br>
1230: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1231: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1232: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1233: effective today, without any warning..."
1234: <p>
1.257 ian 1235:
1236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1237: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1238: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1239: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1240: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1241: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1242: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1243: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1244: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1245: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1246: <p>
1247:
1248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1249: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1250: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1251: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1252: </strong></font><br>
1253: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1254: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1255: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1256: quoting two of them:
1257: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1258: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1259: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1260: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1261: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1262: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1263: <p>
1264:
1.255 ian 1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1266: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1267: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1268: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1269: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1270: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1271: <p>
1272:
1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1274: [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 1275: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1276: </strong></font><br>
1277: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1278: <p>
1279:
1280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1281: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1282: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1283: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1284: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1285: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1286: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1287: security experts for more than three decades."
1288: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1289: <p>
1.261 ian 1290:
1.254 drahn 1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1292: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1293: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1294: </strong></font><br>
1295: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1296: <p>
1297:
1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1299: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1300: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1301: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1302: </strong></font><br>
1303: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1304: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1305: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1306: <p>
1307:
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1309: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1310: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1311: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1312: </strong></font><br>
1313: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1314: from US DARPA.
1315: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1316: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1317: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1318: the BSD license.
1319: <p>
1320: </ul>
1321:
1.251 ian 1322: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1323: <ul>
1324:
1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1326: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1327: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1328: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1329: </strong></font><br>
1330:
1331: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1332: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1333: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1334: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1335: <p>
1336:
1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1338: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1339: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1340: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1341: </strong></font><br>
1342: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1343: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1344: Mentions
1345: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1346: and
1347: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1348: programs.
1349: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1350: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1351: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1352: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1353: <p>
1.325 ian 1354: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1355: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1356:
1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1358: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1359: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1360: </strong></font><br>
1361: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1362: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1363: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1364: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1365: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1366: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1367: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1368: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1369: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1370: put into service."
1371: <p>
1372: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1373: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1374: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1375: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1376: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1377: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1378: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1379: computers with security features."
1380: <p>
1.329 ian 1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1383: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1384: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1385: Slate,
1386: March 3, 2003.
1387: </strong></font><br>
1388: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1389: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1390: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1391: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1392: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1393: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1394: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1395: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1396: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1397: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1398: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1399: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1400: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1401: of more secure open-source solutions like
1402: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1403: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1404: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1405: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1406: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1407: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1408: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1409: the Beltway."
1410: <p>
1.251 ian 1411: </ul>
1412:
1.249 jufi 1413: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1414: <ul>
1415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1416: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1417: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1418: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1419: </strong></font><br>
1420: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1421: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1422: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1423: <p>
1.334 ian 1424:
1425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1426: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1427: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1428: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1429: </strong></font><br>
1430: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1431: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1432: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1433: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1434: "... the hypothetical question ...
1435: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1436: <br>
1437: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1438: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1439: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1440: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1441: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1442: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1443: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1444: support network security.
1445: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1446: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1447: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1448: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1449: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1450: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1451: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1452: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1453: <br>
1454: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1455: <p>
1456:
1.249 jufi 1457: </ul>
1458:
1.246 jufi 1459: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1460: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1461:
1.247 jufi 1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1463: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1464: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1465: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1466: </strong></font><br>
1467: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1468: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.247 jufi 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1472: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1473: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1474: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1477: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1481: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1482: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1483: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1484: </strong></font><br>
1485: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1486: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1487: <p>
1.247 jufi 1488: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1489:
1.244 jufi 1490: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1491: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1492:
1.247 jufi 1493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1494: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1495: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1496: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1497: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1498: </strong></font><br>
1499: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1500: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1501: md5 digests.
1502: <p>
1503:
1.247 jufi 1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1505: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1506: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1507: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1508: </strong></font><br>
1509: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1510: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1511: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1512: right the first time."
1513: <p>
1.247 jufi 1514: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1515:
1516:
1517: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1518: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1519:
1.247 jufi 1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1521: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1522: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1523: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1524: </strong></font><br>
1525: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1526: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1527: part 6</a>.
1528: <p>
1529:
1.247 jufi 1530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1531: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1532: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1533: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1534: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1535: </strong></font><br>
1536: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1537: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1538: <p>
1.301 jose 1539:
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1541: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1542: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1543: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1544: </strong></font><br>
1545:
1546: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1547: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1548: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1549: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1550: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1551: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1552: <i>Here's the
1553: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1554: <p>
1.247 jufi 1555: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1556:
1557: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1558: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1559:
1.247 jufi 1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1561: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1562: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1563: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1564: </strong></font><br>
1565: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1566: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1567: <p>
1568:
1.247 jufi 1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1570: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1571: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1572: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1573: </strong></font><br>
1574: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1575: this time using pf.
1576: <p>
1.247 jufi 1577: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1578:
1579: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1580: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1581:
1.247 jufi 1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1583: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1584: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1585: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1586: </strong></font><br>
1587: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1588: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1589: their rotation.
1590: <p>
1591:
1.247 jufi 1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1593: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1594: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1595: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1596: </strong></font><br>
1597: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1598: <p>
1.247 jufi 1599: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1600:
1.239 jufi 1601: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1602: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1603:
1.247 jufi 1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1605: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1606: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1607: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1608: </strong></font><br>
1609: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1610: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1611: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1612: <p>
1613:
1.247 jufi 1614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1615: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1616: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1617: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1618: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1619: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1620: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1621: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1622: <p>
1.247 jufi 1623: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1624:
1.235 lebel 1625: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1626: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1627:
1.239 jufi 1628:
1.247 jufi 1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1630: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1631: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1632: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1633: </strong></font><br>
1634: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1635: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1636: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1637: <p>
1.301 jose 1638:
1.247 jufi 1639: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1640:
1.228 horacio 1641: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1642: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1643:
1.247 jufi 1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1645: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1646: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1647: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1648: </strong></font><br>
1649: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1650: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1651: <p>
1652:
1.247 jufi 1653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1654: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1655: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1656: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1657: </strong></font><br>
1658: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1659: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1660: <p>
1661:
1.247 jufi 1662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1663: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1664: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1665: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1666: </strong></font><br>
1667: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1668: on the desktop of his parents.
1669: <p>
1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1672: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1673: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1674: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1675: </strong></font><br>
1676: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1677: using IPFilter.
1678:
1679: <p>
1680:
1.247 jufi 1681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1682: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1683: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1684: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1685: </strong></font><br>
1686: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1687: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1688: perspectives of the four OS.
1689: <br>
1690: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1691: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1692: <p>
1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1695: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1696: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1697: software and security</a>,
1698: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1699: </strong></font><br>
1700:
1701: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1702: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1703: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1704: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1705: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1706: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1707: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1708: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1709: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1710: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1711: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1712: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1713: <p>
1.247 jufi 1714: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1715:
1.225 horacio 1716: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1717: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1718:
1.247 jufi 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1720: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1721: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1722: Interview</a>,
1723: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1724: </strong></font><br>
1725:
1726: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1727: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1728: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1729: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1730: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1731: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1732: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1733: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1734: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1735: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1736: of choice.
1737: <p>
1.247 jufi 1738: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1739:
1740: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1741: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1742:
1.247 jufi 1743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1744: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1745: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1746: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1747: </strong></font><br>
1748:
1749: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1750: <p>
1751:
1.247 jufi 1752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1753: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1754: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1755: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1756: </strong></font><br>
1757:
1758: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1759: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1760: <p>
1.247 jufi 1761: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1762:
1.218 horacio 1763: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1764: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1765:
1.247 jufi 1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1767: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1768: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1769: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1770: </strong></font><br>
1771:
1772: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1773: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1774: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1775: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1776: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1777: subjects. Worth a read.
1778: <p>
1779:
1780:
1.247 jufi 1781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1782: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1783: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1784: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1785: </strong></font><br>
1786:
1787: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1788: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1789: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1790: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1791: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1792: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1793: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1794: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1795: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1796: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1797: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1798: on other operating systems.<br>
1799: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1800: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1801: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1802: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1803: <p>
1804:
1.247 jufi 1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1806: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1807: Operating System 2010</a>,
1808: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1809: </strong></font><br>
1810:
1811: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1812: covering the level of software integration into the core
1813: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1814: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1815: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1816: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1817: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1818: <p>
1819:
1.247 jufi 1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1821: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1822: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1823: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1824: </strong></font><br>
1825:
1826: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1827: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1828: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1829: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1830: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1831: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1832: <p>
1.247 jufi 1833: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1834:
1.210 jufi 1835: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1836: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1837:
1.247 jufi 1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1839: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1840: Already a Contender</a>,
1841: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1842: </strong></font><br>
1843:
1844: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1845: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1846: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1847: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1848: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1849: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1850: <p>
1851:
1.247 jufi 1852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1853: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1854: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1855: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1856: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1857:
1.224 horacio 1858: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1859: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1860: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1861: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1862: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1863: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1864: <p>
1.247 jufi 1865: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1866:
1867: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1868: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1869:
1.247 jufi 1870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1871: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1872: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1873: Division</a>,
1874: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1875: </strong></font><br>
1876:
1877: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1878: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1879: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1880: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1881: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1882: investment</em>.<br>
1883: The implementation details can be seen on their
1884: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1885: <p>
1886:
1.247 jufi 1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1888: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1889: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1890: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1891: </strong></font><br>
1892:
1893: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1894: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1895: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1896: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1897: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1898: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1899: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1900: <p>
1901:
1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1903: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1904: Thinking about Security</a>,
1905: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1906: </strong></font><br>
1907:
1908: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1909: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1910: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1911: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1912: to time.<br>
1913: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1914: system and just the most secure system.
1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1918: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1919: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1920: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1921: </strong></font><br>
1922:
1923: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1924: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1925: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1926: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1927: choice:<br>
1928: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1929: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1930: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1931: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1932: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1933: network security devices and as such must be well
1934: armored."</em><br>
1935: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1936: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1937: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1938: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1939: <br>
1940: Bravo!
1941: <p>
1.247 jufi 1942: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1943:
1.207 ian 1944: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1945: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1946:
1.247 jufi 1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1948: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1949: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1950: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1951:
1.207 ian 1952: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1953: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1954: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1955: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1956: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1957: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1958: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1959: <p>
1.247 jufi 1960: </ul>
1.207 ian 1961:
1.194 jufi 1962: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1963: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1964:
1.247 jufi 1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1966: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1967: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1968: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1969: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1970:
1.240 miod 1971: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1972: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1973: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1974: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1975: <p>
1976:
1.247 jufi 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1978: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1979: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1980: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1981:
1982: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1983: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1984: <p>
1985:
1986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1987: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1988: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1989: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1990:
1991: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1992: <p>
1993:
1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1995: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1996: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1997: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1998: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1999:
1.240 miod 2000: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2001: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2002: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2003: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
2004: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2005: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2006: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2007: <br>
2008: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
2009: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2010: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2011: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2012: <p>
2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2015: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2016: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2017: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2018: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2019:
1.194 jufi 2020: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2021: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2022: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2023: <br>
2024: The new
2025: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2026: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2027: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2028: <p>
1.247 jufi 2029: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2030:
1.190 horacio 2031: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2032: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2033:
1.247 jufi 2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2035:
2036: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2037: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2038:
1.301 jose 2039:
1.191 jufi 2040: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2041: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2042:
2043: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2044: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2045:
1.212 horacio 2046: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2047: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2048: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2049:
1.211 horacio 2050: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2051: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2052: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2053:
1.247 jufi 2054: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2055: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2056:
1.247 jufi 2057: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2058: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2059:
1.212 horacio 2060: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2061: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2062: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2063:
2064: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2065: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2066:
2067: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2068: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2069:
1.301 jose 2070: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2071: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2072:
1.191 jufi 2073: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2074: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2075:
2076: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2077: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2078:
1.192 jufi 2079: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2080: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2081: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2082:
1.193 deraadt 2083: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2084: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2085: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2086:
1.247 jufi 2087: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2088: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2091: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2092: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2093:
1.213 horacio 2094: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2095: 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 2096: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2097:
1.190 horacio 2098: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2099: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2100: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2101: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2102: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2103: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2104: <p>
1.190 horacio 2105:
1.247 jufi 2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2107: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2108: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2109: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2110: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2111:
1.195 jufi 2112: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2113: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2114: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2115: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2116: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2117: <p>
2118:
1.247 jufi 2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2120: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2121: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2122: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2123: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2124:
1.191 jufi 2125: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2126: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2127: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2128: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2129: <p>
2130:
2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2132: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2133: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2134: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2135:
2136: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2137: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2138: <p>
1.247 jufi 2139: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2140:
1.191 jufi 2141:
1.186 jufi 2142: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2143: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2146: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2147: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2148: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2149: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2150:
1.188 jufi 2151: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2152: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2153: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2154: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2155: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2156: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2157: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2158: <p>
2159:
1.301 jose 2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2161: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2162: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2163: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2164:
2165: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2166: <p>
1.191 jufi 2167:
1.247 jufi 2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2169: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2170: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2171: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2172: </strong></font><br>
2173:
2174: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2175: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2176: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2177: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2178: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2179: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2180: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2181: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2182: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2183: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2184: familiar?
2185: <p>
1.247 jufi 2186: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2187:
1.178 louis 2188: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2189: <ul>
1.178 louis 2190:
1.247 jufi 2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2192: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2193: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2194: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2195: </strong></font><br>
2196:
2197: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2198: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2199: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2200: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2201: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2202: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2203: <p>
2204:
1.247 jufi 2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2206: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2207: Open source under the hood</a>,
2208: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2209: </strong></font><br>
2210:
2211: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2212: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2213: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2214: <p>
2215:
1.247 jufi 2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2217: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2218: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2219: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
2222: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2223: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2224: <p>
1.247 jufi 2225: </ul>
1.179 louis 2226:
1.174 louis 2227:
1.175 louis 2228: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2229: <ul>
1.175 louis 2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2232: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2233: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2234: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2235: </strong></font><br>
2236:
2237: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2238: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2239: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2240: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2241: <p>
2242:
1.247 jufi 2243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2244: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2245: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2246: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2247: </strong></font><br>
2248:
2249: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2250: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2251: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2252: <p>
1.247 jufi 2253: </ul>
1.175 louis 2254:
1.176 louis 2255:
1.172 mickey 2256: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2257: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2260: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2261: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2262: </strong></font><br>
2263:
2264: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2265: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2266: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2267: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2268: <p>
2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2271: <a
1.269 deraadt 2272: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2273: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2274: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2275: </strong></font><br>
2276:
2277: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2278: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2279: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2280: <p>
2281:
1.247 jufi 2282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2283: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2284: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2285: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2286: </strong></font><br>
2287:
2288: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2289: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2290: <p>
2291:
1.247 jufi 2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2293: <a
1.269 deraadt 2294: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2295: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2296: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2297: </strong></font><br>
2298:
2299: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2300: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2301: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2302: our own Theo de Raadt.
2303: <p>
2304:
1.247 jufi 2305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2306: <a
1.269 deraadt 2307: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2308: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2309: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2310: </strong></font><br>
2311:
2312: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2313: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2314: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2315: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2316: shut down.]
2317: <p>
2318:
1.247 jufi 2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2320: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2321: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2322: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2323: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2324: </strong></font><br>
2325:
2326: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2327: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2328: <p>
1.247 jufi 2329: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2330:
1.161 louis 2331: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2332: <ul>
1.161 louis 2333:
1.247 jufi 2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2335: <a
1.269 deraadt 2336: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2337: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2338: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2339: </strong></font><br>
2340:
2341: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2342: by John Wolley
2343: <p>
2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2346: <a
1.269 deraadt 2347: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2348: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2349: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2353: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2354: OpenBSD).
2355: <p>
2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2358: <a
1.247 jufi 2359: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2360: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2364: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2365: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2366: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2367: and hindsight.
2368: <p>
2369:
1.247 jufi 2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2371: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2372: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2373: </strong></font><br>
2374:
2375: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2376: <p>
2377:
1.247 jufi 2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2379: <a
1.168 provos 2380: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2381: December 7, 2000
2382: </strong></font><br>
2383:
2384: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2385: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2386: us explain.
2387: <p>
2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2390: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2391: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2392: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2393: December 6, 2000
2394: </strong></font><br>
2395:
2396: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2397: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2398: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2399: <p>
2400:
1.247 jufi 2401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2402: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2403: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2404: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2405: </strong></font><br>
2406:
2407: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2408: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2409: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2410: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2411: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2412: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2413: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2414: <p>
2415:
2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2417: <a
1.226 horacio 2418: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2419: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2420: </strong></font><br>
2421:
2422: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2423: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2424: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2425: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2426: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2427: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2428: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2429: <p>
1.162 millert 2430:
1.247 jufi 2431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2432: <a
1.161 louis 2433: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2434: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2435: </strong></font><br>
2436:
2437: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2438: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2439: <p>
2440:
1.247 jufi 2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2442: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2443: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2444: </strong></font><br>
2445:
2446: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2447: <p>
2448:
2449:
1.247 jufi 2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2451: <a
1.226 horacio 2452: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2453: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2454: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2455: </strong></font><br>
2456:
2457: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2458: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2459: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2460: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2461: <p>
1.247 jufi 2462: </ul>
1.169 louis 2463:
1.158 louis 2464: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2465: <ul>
1.147 louis 2466:
1.247 jufi 2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2468: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2469: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2470: </strong></font><br>
2471:
2472: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2473: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2474: <p>
2475:
1.247 jufi 2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2477: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2478: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2479: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2480: </strong></font><br>
2481: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2482: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2483: <p>
2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2486: <a
2487: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2488: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2489: </strong></font><br>
2490:
2491: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2492: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2493: <p>
2494:
1.247 jufi 2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2496: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2497: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2498: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2499:
1.213 horacio 2500: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2501: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2502: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2503: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2504: <p>
1.215 horacio 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2507: <a
2508: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2509: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2510: </strong></font><br>
2511:
2512: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2513: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2514: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2515: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2516: much of the attitude too).
2517: <p>
1.161 louis 2518:
1.247 jufi 2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2520: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2521: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2522: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2523:
1.157 louis 2524: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2525: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2526: <p>
1.247 jufi 2527: </ul>
1.157 louis 2528:
2529: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2530: <ul>
1.157 louis 2531:
1.247 jufi 2532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2533: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2534: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2535: </strong></font><br>
2536:
2537: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2538: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2539: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2540: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2541: <p>
2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2544: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2545: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2549: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2550: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2551: it because they love coding...
2552: <p>
2553:
1.247 jufi 2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2555: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2556: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2557: </strong></font><br>
2558:
2559: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2560: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2561: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2562: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2563: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2564: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2565: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2566: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2567: <p>
2568:
1.247 jufi 2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2570: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2571: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2572: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2573: </strong></font><br>
2574:
2575: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2576: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2577: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2578: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2579: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2580: the pizza.
2581: <p>
2582:
1.247 jufi 2583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2584: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2585: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2586: </strong></font><br>
2587:
2588: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2589: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2590: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2591: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2592: problems.
2593: <p>
2594:
1.247 jufi 2595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2596: <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 2597: </strong></font><br>
2598:
1.222 miod 2599: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2600: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2601: - whether they like it or not.
2602: <p>
2603:
1.247 jufi 2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2605: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2606: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2607: </strong></font><br>
2608:
2609: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2610: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2611: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2612: <p>
1.148 aaron 2613:
1.247 jufi 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2615: <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 2616: </strong></font><br>
2617:
2618: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2619: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2620: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2621: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2622: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2623: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2624: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2625: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2626: <p>
2627:
1.247 jufi 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2629: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2630: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2634: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2635: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2636: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2637: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2638: <p>
1.247 jufi 2639: </ul>
1.147 louis 2640:
1.138 louis 2641: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2642: <ul>
1.138 louis 2643:
1.247 jufi 2644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2645: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2646: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2647: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2648: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2649: </strong></font><br>
2650:
1.227 horacio 2651: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2652: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2653: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2654: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2655: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2656: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2657: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2658: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2659: <p>
2660:
1.247 jufi 2661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2662: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2663: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2664: </strong></font><br>
2665:
2666: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2667: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2668: groups, and even Linux.
2669: <p>
2670:
1.247 jufi 2671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2672: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2673: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2674: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2675: </strong></font><br>
2676:
2677: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2678: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2679: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2680: library after installing the OS.
2681: <p>
2682:
1.247 jufi 2683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2684: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2685: Sys Admin, September 2000
2686: </strong></font><br>
2687:
2688: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2689: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2690: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2691: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2692: (<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>,
2693: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2694: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2695: <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 2696: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2697: out of the system.
2698: <p>
2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2701: <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
2702: </strong></font><br>
2703:
2704: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2705: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2706: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2707: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2708: the IP filtering and address translation.
2709: <p>
1.301 jose 2710:
2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2712: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2713: </strong></font><br>
2714:
2715: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2716: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2717: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2718: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2719: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2720: <p>
1.247 jufi 2721: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2722:
1.131 louis 2723: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2724: <ul>
1.131 louis 2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2727: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2728: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2729: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2730: </strong></font><br>
2731:
2732: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2733: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2734: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2738: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2739: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2740: </strong></font><br>
2741:
2742: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2743: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2744: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2745: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2746: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2747: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2748: note of"</i>.
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2752: <a
1.247 jufi 2753: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2754: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2755: </strong></font><br>
2756:
2757: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2758: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2759: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2760: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2761: <p>
2762:
1.247 jufi 2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2764: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2765: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2766: </strong></font><br>
2767:
2768: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2769: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2770: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2771: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2772: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2773: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2774: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2775: <p>
2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2778: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2779: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2780: 2000
2781: </strong></font><br>
2782:
2783: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2784: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2785: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2786: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2787: against current industry practices.
2788: <p>
2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2791: <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
2792: </strong></font><br>
2793:
2794: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2795: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2796: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2797: <p>
2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2800: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2801: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2802: </strong></font><br>
2803:
2804: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2805: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2806: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2807: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2808: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2809: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2810: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2811: <p>
2812:
1.247 jufi 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2814: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2815: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2816: </strong></font><br>
2817:
2818: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2819: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2820: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2821: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2822: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2823: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2824: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2825: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2826: <p>
1.247 jufi 2827: </ul>
1.131 louis 2828:
1.118 louis 2829: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2830: <ul>
1.118 louis 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2833: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2834: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2835: </strong></font><br>
2836:
2837: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2838: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2839: about time. The article mentions that
2840: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2841: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2842: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2843: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2844: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2845: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2846: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2847: <p>
2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2850: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2851: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2852: </strong></font><br>
2853:
2854: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2855: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2856: of OpenSSH.
2857: <p>
2858:
1.247 jufi 2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2860: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2861: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2862: </strong></font><br>
2863:
2864: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2865: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2866: bridging.
2867: <p>
2868:
1.247 jufi 2869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2870: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2871: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2872: </strong></font><br>
2873:
1.121 deraadt 2874: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2875: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2876: <p>
2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2879: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2880: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2884: <p>
2885:
1.247 jufi 2886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2887: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2888: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2889: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2890: </strong></font><br>
2891:
1.120 deraadt 2892: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2893: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2894: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2895: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2896: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2897: <p>
2898:
1.247 jufi 2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2900: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2901: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2902: </strong></font><br>
2903:
1.222 miod 2904: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2905: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2906: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2907: protocols and their quirks.
2908: <p>
2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2911: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2912: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2913: </strong></font><br>
2914:
2915: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2916: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2917: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2918: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2919: <p>
2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2922: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2923: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2924: </strong></font><br>
2925:
2926: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2927: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2928: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2929: <p>
2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2932: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2933: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2934: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2935: </strong></font><br>
2936:
2937: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2938: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2939: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2940: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2941: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2942: <p>
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.118 louis 2944:
1.104 louis 2945: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2946: <ul>
1.104 louis 2947:
1.247 jufi 2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2949: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2950: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2951: </strong></font><br>
2952:
2953: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2954: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2955: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2956: be a bit dry.
2957: <p>
2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2960: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2961: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2962: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2963: </strong></font><br>
2964: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2965: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2966: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2967: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2968: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2969: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2970: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2971: <p>
2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2974: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2975: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2976: 2000
1.128 louis 2977: </strong></font><br>
2978:
2979: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2980: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2981: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2982: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2983: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2984: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2985: <p>
2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2988: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2989: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2990: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2991:
2992: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2993: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2994: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2995: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2996: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2997: <p>
1.110 louis 2998:
1.247 jufi 2999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3000: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3001: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3002: </strong></font><br>
3003:
3004: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3005: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3006: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3007: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3008: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3009: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3010: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3011: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3012: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3013: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3014: <p>
3015:
1.247 jufi 3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3017: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3018: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3019:
3020: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3021: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3022: <p>
1.108 louis 3023:
1.247 jufi 3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3025: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3026: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3027: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3028:
3029: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3030: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3031: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3032: <p>
1.106 louis 3033:
1.247 jufi 3034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3035: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3036: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3037: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3038:
3039: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3040: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3041: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3042: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3043: <p>
1.107 louis 3044:
1.247 jufi 3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3046: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3047: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3048: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3049:
3050: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3051: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3052: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3053: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3054: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3055: <p>
1.105 louis 3056:
1.247 jufi 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3058: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3059: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3060: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3061:
1.113 naddy 3062: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3063: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3064: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3065: <p>
1.104 louis 3066:
1.247 jufi 3067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3068: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3069: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3070: </strong></font><br>
3071:
3072: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3073: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3074: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3075: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3076: <p>
1.301 jose 3077:
3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3079: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3080: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3081: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3082:
3083: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3084: hardware-supported cryptography.
3085: <p>
1.247 jufi 3086: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3087:
1.85 louis 3088: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3089: <ul>
1.85 louis 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3092: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3093: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3094: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3095:
3096: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3097: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3098: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3099: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3100: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3101: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3102: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3103: <p>
1.99 louis 3104:
1.247 jufi 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3106: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3107: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3108: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3109:
3110: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3111: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3112: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3113: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3114: <p>
1.100 louis 3115:
1.247 jufi 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3117: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3118: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3119: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3120:
3121: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3122: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3123: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3124: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3125: <p>
1.95 louis 3126:
1.247 jufi 3127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3128: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3129: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3130: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3131:
3132: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3133: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3134: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3135: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3136: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3137: <p>
1.92 louis 3138:
1.247 jufi 3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3140: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3141: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3142: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3143:
3144: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3145: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3146: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3147: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3148: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3149: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3150: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3151: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3152: <p>
1.91 louis 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3155: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3156: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3157: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3158:
3159: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3160: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3161: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3162: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3163: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3164: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3165: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3166: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3167: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3168: <p>
1.90 louis 3169:
1.247 jufi 3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3171: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3172: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3173: </strong></font><br>
3174: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3175: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3176: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3177: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3178: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3179: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3180: <p>
3181:
1.247 jufi 3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3183: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3184: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3185: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3186:
1.113 naddy 3187: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3188: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3189: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3190: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3191: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3192: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3193: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3194: <p>
1.87 louis 3195:
1.247 jufi 3196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3197: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3198: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3199: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3200:
3201: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3202: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3203: <p>
1.85 louis 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3206: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3207: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3208: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3209:
3210: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3211: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3212: <p>
3213:
3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3215: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3216: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3217: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3218:
3219: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3220: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3221: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3222: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3223: <p>
1.89 louis 3224:
1.247 jufi 3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3226: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3227: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3228: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3229:
3230: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3231: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3232: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3233: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3234: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3235: </ul>
1.85 louis 3236:
1.78 deraadt 3237: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3238: <ul>
1.74 louis 3239:
1.247 jufi 3240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3241: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3242: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3243: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3244: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3245:
3246: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3247: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3248: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3249: <p>
1.83 louis 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3252: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3253: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3254: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3255:
3256: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3257: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3258: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3259: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3260: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3261: <p>
1.93 louis 3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3264: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3265: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3266: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3267: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3268:
1.83 louis 3269: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3270: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3271: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3272: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3273: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3274: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3275: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3276: <p>
1.82 aaron 3277:
1.247 jufi 3278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3279: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3280: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3281: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3282:
1.83 louis 3283: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3284: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3285: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3286: <p>
1.80 louis 3287:
1.247 jufi 3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3289: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3290: Bad Press</a>,
3291: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3292: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3293:
3294: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3295: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3296: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3297: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3298: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3299: <p>
1.247 jufi 3300: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3301:
3302: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3303: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3306: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3307: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3308: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3309: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3310:
3311: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3312: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3313: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3314: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3315: <p>
1.74 louis 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3318: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3319: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3321:
1.219 horacio 3322: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3323: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3324: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3325: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3326: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3327: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3328: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3329: <p>
1.88 louis 3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3332: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3333: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3334: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3335:
3336: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3337: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3338: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3339: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3340: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3341: <p>
1.81 louis 3342:
1.247 jufi 3343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3344: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3345: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3346: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3347:
3348: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3349: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3350: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3351: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3352: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3353: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3354: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3355: <p>
1.90 louis 3356:
1.247 jufi 3357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3358: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3359: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3360: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3361:
3362: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3363: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3364: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3365: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3366: <p>
1.247 jufi 3367: </ul>
1.71 louis 3368:
1.69 deraadt 3369: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3370: <ul>
1.70 louis 3371:
1.247 jufi 3372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3373: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3374: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3375: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3376:
3377: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3378: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3379: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3380: <p>
1.70 louis 3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3383: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3384: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3386:
3387: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3388: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3389: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3390: <p>
1.68 louis 3391:
1.247 jufi 3392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3393: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3394: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3395: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3396: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3397:
1.111 jufi 3398: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3399: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3400: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3401: "secure by default" installation.
3402: <p>
1.64 louis 3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3405: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3406: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3407: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3408:
1.113 naddy 3409: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3410: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3411: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3412: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3413: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3414: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3415: <p>
1.66 louis 3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3418: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3419: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3420: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3421:
3422: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3423: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3424: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3425: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3426: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3427: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3428: <p>
1.83 louis 3429:
1.247 jufi 3430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3431: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3432: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3433: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3434:
3435: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3436: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3437: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3438: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3439: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.64 louis 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3443: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3444: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3445: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3446:
3447: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3448: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3449: <p>
1.301 jose 3450:
3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3452: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3453: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3454: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3455: </strong></font><br>
3456:
3457: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3458: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3459: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3460: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3461: Giving way to
3462: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3463: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3464: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3465: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3466: <p>
1.247 jufi 3467: </ul>
1.65 louis 3468:
1.69 deraadt 3469: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3470: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3473: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3474: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3475: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3476:
3477: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3478: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3479: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3480: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3481: <p>
1.88 louis 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3484: <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 3485: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3486:
3487: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3488: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3489: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3490: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3491: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3492: <p>
1.60 louis 3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3495: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3496: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3497: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3498: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3499:
3500: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3501: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3502: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3503: <p>
1.58 louis 3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3506: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3507: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3508:
3509: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3510: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3511: <p>
1.53 louis 3512:
1.247 jufi 3513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3514: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3515: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3516: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3517:
3518: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3519: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3520: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3521: <p>
1.99 louis 3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3524: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3525: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3526:
3527: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3528: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3529: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3530: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3531: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3532:
1.247 jufi 3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3534: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3535: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3536: </strong></font><br>
3537:
3538: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3539: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3540: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3541: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3542: <p>
3543:
1.247 jufi 3544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3545: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3546: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3547: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3548:
3549: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3550: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3551: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3552:
1.247 jufi 3553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3554: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3555: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3556:
3557: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3558: in
1.247 jufi 3559: <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 3560: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3561: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3562: <p>
1.53 louis 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3565: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3566: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3567: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3568: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3569:
1.58 louis 3570: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3571: <p>
1.301 jose 3572:
3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3574: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3575: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3576: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3577: Informacyjny, January 2000
3578: </strong></font><br>
3579:
3580: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3581: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3582: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3583: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3584: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3585: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3586: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3587: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3588: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3589: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3590: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3591: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3592: <p>
3593:
3594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3595: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3596: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3597: </strong></font><br>
3598:
3599: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3600: <p>
3601: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3602:
1.69 deraadt 3603: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3604: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3605:
1.247 jufi 3606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3607: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3608: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3609: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3610: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3611:
1.58 louis 3612: Kurt Seifried
3613: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3614: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3615: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3616: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3619: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3620: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3621: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3622:
3623: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3624: <p>
1.96 louis 3625:
1.247 jufi 3626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3627: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3628: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3629: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3630: </strong></font><br>
3631:
3632: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3633: <p>
3634:
3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3636: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3637: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3638: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3639:
3640: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3641: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3642: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3643: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3644: <p>
1.247 jufi 3645: </ul>
1.86 louis 3646:
1.69 deraadt 3647: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3648: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3649:
1.247 jufi 3650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3651: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3652: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3653: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3654:
3655: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3656: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3657: <p>
1.61 louis 3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3660: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3661: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3662: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3663: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3664:
3665: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3666: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3667: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3668: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3669: right -- or at least strives to".
3670: <p>
1.48 louis 3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3673: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3674: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3675: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3676: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3677: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3678: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3679: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3680: <p>
1.61 louis 3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <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 3683: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3684: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3685:
3686: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3687: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3688: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3689: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3690: <p>
1.46 louis 3691:
1.247 jufi 3692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3693: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3694: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3695: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3696:
3697: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3698: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3699: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3700:
1.247 jufi 3701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3702: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3703: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3704: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3705:
3706: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3707: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3708: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3709: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3710: <p>
1.247 jufi 3711: </ul>
1.70 louis 3712:
1.69 deraadt 3713: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3714: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3715:
1.247 jufi 3716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3717: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3718: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3719: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3720: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3721:
3722: Kurt Seifried
3723: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3724: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3725: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3726: <p>
1.44 philen 3727:
1.247 jufi 3728: <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 3729: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3730: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3731:
3732: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3733: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3734:
1.247 jufi 3735: <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 3736: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3737: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3738:
3739: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3740: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3741:
1.247 jufi 3742: <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 3743: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3744: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3745:
3746: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3747: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3748: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3749: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3750: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3751:
1.247 jufi 3752: <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 3753: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3754: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3755:
1.36 louis 3756: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3757: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3758:
1.247 jufi 3759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3760: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3761: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3762: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3763:
3764: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3765: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3766: </ul>
1.38 louis 3767:
1.69 deraadt 3768: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3769: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3770:
1.247 jufi 3771: <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 3772: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3773: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3774:
3775: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3776: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3777: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3778:
1.113 naddy 3779: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3780: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3781: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3782: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3783:
3784: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3785: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3786: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3787: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3788: <blockquote>
3789: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3790: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3791: <br>
3792: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3793: </code>
3794: </blockquote>
3795: <p>
3796:
1.247 jufi 3797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3798: <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 3799: <p>
3800:
3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3802: <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 3803: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3804:
3805: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3806: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3807: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3808: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3811: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3812: Sept. 28, 1999
3813: </strong></font><br>
3814:
3815: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3816: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3817: translating and reprinting articles from
3818: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3819: <p>
3820:
3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3822: <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 3823: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3824:
3825: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3826: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3827: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3828: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3829: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3830: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3831: <p>
1.19 louis 3832:
1.113 naddy 3833: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3834: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3835: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3836:
3837: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3838: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3839: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3840: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3841: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3842: <p>
1.16 louis 3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3845: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3846: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3847: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3848:
1.57 louis 3849: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3850: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3851: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3852: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3853:
1.247 jufi 3854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3855: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3856: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3857: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3858:
1.113 naddy 3859: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3860:
1.247 jufi 3861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3862: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3863: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3864: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3865:
1.23 louis 3866: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3867: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3868: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3869: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3870: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3871: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3874: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3875: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3876: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3877:
1.199 pvalchev 3878: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3879: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3880: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3881: installation.
1.113 naddy 3882: <p>
1.47 louis 3883:
1.247 jufi 3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3885: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3886: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3887: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3888:
1.301 jose 3889: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3890: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3891: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3892: </ul>
1.57 louis 3893:
1.69 deraadt 3894: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3895: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3896:
1.247 jufi 3897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3898: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3899: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3900: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3901:
3902: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3903: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3904: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3905: <p>
1.12 louis 3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3908: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3909: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3910: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3911:
3912: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3913: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3914: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3915: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3916: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3917: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3918: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3919: <p>
1.247 jufi 3920: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3921:
1.69 deraadt 3922: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3923: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3924:
1.247 jufi 3925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3926: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3927: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3928:
3929: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3930: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3931: available."
1.113 naddy 3932: <p>
1.301 jose 3933:
3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3935: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3936: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3940: <p>
1.247 jufi 3941: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3942:
1.69 deraadt 3943: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3944: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3945:
1.247 jufi 3946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3947: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3948: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3949:
3950: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3951: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3952: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3953: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3954: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3955: <p>
1.33 louis 3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3958: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3959: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3960: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3961:
1.113 naddy 3962: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3963: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3964: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3965: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3966: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3967: <p>
1.247 jufi 3968: </ul>
1.57 louis 3969:
1.69 deraadt 3970: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3971: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3972:
1.247 jufi 3973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3974: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3975: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3976: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3977:
3978: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3979: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3980: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3981:
1.247 jufi 3982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3983: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3984: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3985: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3986: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3987:
3988: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3989: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3990:
1.247 jufi 3991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3992: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3993:
1.113 naddy 3994: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3995:
1.247 jufi 3996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3997: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3998: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3999: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4000:
4001: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4002: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4003: </ul>
1.23 louis 4004:
1.69 deraadt 4005: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4006: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4009: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4010: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4011:
4012: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4013: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4014: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4015:
1.247 jufi 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4017: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4018: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4019: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4020:
4021: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4022: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4023: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4024: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4025: </ul>
1.57 louis 4026:
1.69 deraadt 4027: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4028: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4029:
1.247 jufi 4030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4031: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4032: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4033: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4034:
4035: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4036: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4037: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4038: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4039: <p>
1.15 louis 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4042: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4043: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4044: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4045:
4046: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4047: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4048: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4049: columns."
1.113 naddy 4050: <p>
1.247 jufi 4051: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4052:
1.69 deraadt 4053: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4054: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4055:
1.247 jufi 4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4057: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4058: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4059: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4060:
4061: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4062: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4063:
1.113 naddy 4064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4065: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4066: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4067:
4068: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4069: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4070: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4071: </ul>
1.57 louis 4072:
1.69 deraadt 4073: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4074: <ul>
1.301 jose 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4076: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4077: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4078: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4079:
4080: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4081: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4082: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4083: <p>
4084:
4085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4086: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4087: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4088: Nov 13, 1998 and
4089: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4090: Datateknik</a>,
4091: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4092:
1.380 saad 4093: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4094: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4095: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4096: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4097: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4098:
1.113 naddy 4099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4100: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4101: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4102: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4103:
1.222 miod 4104: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4105: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4106: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4107: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4108: <p>
1.247 jufi 4109: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4110:
1.69 deraadt 4111: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4112: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4113:
1.247 jufi 4114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4115: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4116: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4117:
1.69 deraadt 4118: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4119: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4120: <p>
1.247 jufi 4121: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4122:
1.69 deraadt 4123: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4124: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4125:
1.247 jufi 4126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4127: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4128: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4129: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4130:
1.383 jcs 4131: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4132: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4133: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4134:
1.247 jufi 4135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4136: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4137: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4138: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4139: <p>
1.247 jufi 4140: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4141:
1.69 deraadt 4142: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4143: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4144:
1.247 jufi 4145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4146: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4147: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4148: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4149: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4150: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4151:
4152: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4153: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4154: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4155: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4156: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4157: <p>
1.247 jufi 4158: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4159:
4160: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4161: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4162:
1.247 jufi 4163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4164: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4165: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4166:
1.69 deraadt 4167: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4168: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4169: <p>
1.112 naddy 4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4172: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4173:
1.292 camield 4174: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4175: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4176: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.404 ! jolan 4177: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.403 2004/09/05 21:09:34 saad Exp $</small>
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