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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>
1.405 ! jolan 48: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 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>
1.405 ! jolan 55: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 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:
1.405 ! jolan 77: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
! 78: <ul>
! 79: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
! 80: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
! 81: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
! 82: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
! 83: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
! 84: details on how funds are dispersed.
! 85: <p>
! 86: </ul>
! 87:
1.393 david 88: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
89: <ul>
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 91: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
92: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
93: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
94: </strong></font><br>
95: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
96: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
97: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
98: on inserting large number of SQL records.
99: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
100: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
101: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
102: <p>
103:
104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 105: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
106: Secure by Default</a>,
107: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
108: </strong></font><br>
109: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
110: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
111: <p>
112:
113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
114: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
115: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
116: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
117: </strong></font><br>
118: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
119: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
120: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
121: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
122: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
123: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
127: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
128: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
129: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
130: </strong></font><br>
131: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
132: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
133: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
137: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
138: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
139: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
140: </strong></font><br>
141: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
142: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
143: <p>
144: </ul>
145:
1.388 mcbride 146: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
147: <ul>
1.394 jolan 148:
149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
150: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
151: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
152: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
153: </strong></font><br>
154: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
155: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
156: available for sparc64.
157: <p>
158:
1.390 beck 159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 160: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
161: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
162: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
163: </strong></font><br>
164: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
165: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
166: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
167: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 171: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
172: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 173: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 174: </strong></font><br>
175: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
176: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
177: it does: CARP provides sharing
178: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
179: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
180: detail to get you started using it.
181: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
182: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
183: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
184: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
185: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
186: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
187: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 188: <p>
1.391 ian 189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 191: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 192: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
193: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 194: </strong></font><br>
195: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 196: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 197: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 198: <p>
1.388 mcbride 199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
201: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
202: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 203: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 204: </strong></font><br>
205: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
206: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
207: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
208: unencumbered by patents.
209: <p>
210: </ul>
211:
1.378 henning 212: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
213: <ul>
1.384 jose 214:
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 216: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
217: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
218: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
219: </strong></font><br>
220: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
221: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
222: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
223: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
224: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
225: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
226: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
227: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
228: in the page tables."
229: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 233: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
234: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
235: </strong></font><br>
236: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
237: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
238: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
239: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 240: <p>
1.384 jose 241:
1.378 henning 242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 243: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
244: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 245: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
246: </strong></font><br>
247: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
248: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
249: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
250: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
251: (quote:
252: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
253: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 254: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 255: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
256: the other developers for their work on the system.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 260: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
261: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
262: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 263: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 264: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
265: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
266: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
267: too.
268: <p>
269:
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 271: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
272: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 273: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 274: OpenBSD source code using
275: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
276: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
277: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
278: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
279: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
280: <p>
281: </ul>
282:
1.374 jose 283: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
284: <ul>
285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 286: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 287: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
288: </strong></font><br>
289: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
290: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
291: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
292: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
293: it."
294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 297: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
298: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
299: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
300: </strong></font><br/>
301: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
302: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
303: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
304: <p>
305: </ul>
306:
1.369 ian 307: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
308: <ul>
309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 310: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
311: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
312: </strong></font><br/>
313: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
314: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
315: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
316: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
317: <p>
318:
319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 320: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
321: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
322: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
323: </strong></font><br/>
324: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
325: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
326: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
327: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
328: form factor.
329: <p>
330:
331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
332: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
333: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
334: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
335: Features</a>,
336: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
337: </strong></font><br/>
338: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
339: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
340: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
341: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
342: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
343: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
344: <p>
345: This article can also be found online at:
346: <ul>
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 348: <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 349: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
350: </strong></font>
351: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
352: </ul>
353: <p>
1.392 david 354:
1.371 jose 355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 356: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
357: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 358: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
359: </strong></font><br/>
360: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
361: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
362: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 363: <p>
1.371 jose 364:
365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 366: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 367: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 368: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 369: </strong></font><br/>
370: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
371: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
372: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
373: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
374: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
375: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
376: and its history with OpenBSD.
377: </ul>
378:
1.368 henning 379: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
380: <ul>
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 382: [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 383: </strong></font><br>
384: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
385: </ul>
386:
1.364 jose 387: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
388: <ul>
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 390: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
391: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
392: UNIX Review,
393: July, 2003.
394: </strong></font><br>
395: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
396: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
397: who want more information.
398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 401: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
402: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
403: Government Computer News,
404: July 22, 2003.
405: </strong></font><br>
406: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
407: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
408: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
409: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
410: <p>
411:
412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
413: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
414: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
415: SANS Institute,
416: July 22, 2003.
417: </strong></font><br>
418: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 419: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 420: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
421: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
422: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
423: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
424: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
425: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
426: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
427: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
428: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
429: <p>
430:
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 432: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
433: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
434: OnLamp.com,
435: July 17, 2003.
436: </strong></font><br>
437: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
438: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
439: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
440: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
441: have been working on.
442:
443: </ul>
444:
1.356 jose 445: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 446: <ul>
447:
448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 449: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
450: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
451: UNIX Review,
452: June, 2003.
453: </strong></font><br>
454: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
455: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
456: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
457: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 461: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
462: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
463: eWeek,
464: June 23, 2003.
465: </strong></font><br>
466: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
467: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
468: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
469: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
470: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
471: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 475: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
476: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
477: Software Development Online,
478: June, 2003.
479: </strong></font><br>
480: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
481: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
482: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
483: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
484: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
485: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
486: current activities.
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 490: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
491: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 492: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
493: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
494: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
495: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
496: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
497: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
498: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
499: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 500: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 501: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
502: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
503: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
504: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
505: decisions.
506: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
507: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
508: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
509: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 510: <p>
511:
512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 513: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
514: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
515: Page 58, eWeek,
516: June 2, 2003.
517: </strong></font><br>
518: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
519: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
520: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
521: been addressed in -current.
522: <p>
523:
1.356 jose 524: </ul>
525:
526: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
527: <ul>
528:
1.355 jose 529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 530: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
531: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
532: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
533: </strong></font><br>
534: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
535: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
536: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
537: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
538: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
539: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
540: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 544: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
545: Beyond Linux</a>,
546: InfoWorld,
547: May 23, 2003.
548: </strong></font><br>
549: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
550: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
551: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
552: compared to the GPL.
553: <p>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 556: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
557: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
558: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 559: May 17, 2003.
560: </strong></font><br>
561: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
562: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
563: the business section and half of another page inside
564: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
565: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
566: in talking about the project's history and goals.
567: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
568: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
569: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
570: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 571: <br>
572: This article can also be found online at:
573: <ul>
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
575: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
576: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
577: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
578: May 17, 2003
579: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 580: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
582: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
583: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
584: Montreal Gazette,
585: May 21, 2003
586: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 587: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 588: <p>
1.346 ian 589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 591: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 592: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 593: May 7, 2003.
594: </strong></font><br>
595: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
596: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
597: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
598: <p>
599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 601: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
602: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
603: OsOpinion,
604: May 6, 2003.
605: </strong></font><br>
606: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
607: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
608: <br>
609: This article can also be found online at:
610: <ul>
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
612: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
613: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
614: NewsFactor Network.
615: </strong></font>
616: </ul>
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 620: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 621: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
622: ITBusiness,
623: May 2, 2003.
624: </strong></font><br>
625: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
626: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
627: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
628: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
629: <p>
630:
631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 632: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
633: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
634: InfoWorld,
635: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 636: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 637: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
638: <br>
639: This article can also be found online at:
640: <ul>
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
642: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
643: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
644: IDG Singapore.
645: </strong></font>
646: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 647: <p>
648:
1.339 jose 649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
650: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
651: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 652: ZDNet,
653: May 1, 2003.
654: </strong></font><br>
655: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 656: someone using parts from previous articles.
657: <br>
1.341 deraadt 658: This article can also be found online at:
659: <ul>
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
661: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
662: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
663: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 664: </strong></font>
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
666: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
667: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
668: CNET News.com.
669: </strong></font>
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
671: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
672: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
673: ZDNet UK.
674: </strong></font>
675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
676: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
677: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
678: Help Net Security, Croatia.
679: </strong></font>
680: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 681: <p>
1.339 jose 682:
1.341 deraadt 683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 684: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 685: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
686: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
687: May 1, 2003.
688: </strong></font><br>
689: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
690: that have been added
691: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
692: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
693: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 694: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 695: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
696: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
697: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 698: <p>
699:
700: </ul>
701:
1.253 ian 702: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
703: <ul>
1.255 ian 704:
1.260 ian 705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 706: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 707: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
708: TechRepublic,
709: April 28, 2003.
710: </strong></font><br>
711: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
712: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 713: work.<br>
714: Can also be found online at:
715: <ul>
716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
717: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
718: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
719: ZDNet UK.
720: </strong></font>
721: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 722: <p>
723:
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 725: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
726: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
727: IDG,
728: April 24, 2003.
729: </strong></font><br>
730: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
731: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
732: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
733: Can also be found online at:
734: <ul>
735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
736: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
737: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 738: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 739: </strong></font>
740: </ul>
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
744: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 745: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 746: Slate,
747: April 24, 2003.
748: </strong></font><br>
749: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
750: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
751: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
752: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 756: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
757: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
758: April 24, 2003.
759: </strong></font><br>
760: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
761: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
762: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
763: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
764: <p>
765:
766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 767: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
768: April 24, 2003.
769: </strong></font><br>
770: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
771: the free software community".
772: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
773: other articles.
774: <p>
775:
776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 777: <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 778: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
779: </strong></font><br>
780: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
781: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
782: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
783: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
784: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
785: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
786: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
787: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
788: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
789: <br/>
790: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
791: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
792: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
793: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 794: <br>
795: Can also be found online at:
796: <ul>
797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
798: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
799: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
800: Common Dreams NewsCenter
801: </strong></font>
802: </ul>
1.324 ian 803: <p>
804:
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
806: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
807: Wired, April 24, 2003.
808: </strong></font><br>
809: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
810: article above.
811: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
812: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
813: wasting them."
1.332 ian 814: <br>
815: Can also be found online at:
816: <ul>
817: <li>
818: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
819: </strong></font>
820: </ul>
1.324 ian 821: <p>
822:
823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 824: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
825: </strong></font><br>
826: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 830: <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.
831: </strong></font><br>
832: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
833: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
834: <p>
835:
836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 837: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
838: April 23, 2003.
839: </strong></font><br>
840: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 844: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 845: April 22, 2003.
846: </strong></font><br>
847: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
848: <p>
849:
850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 851: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
852: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
853: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 854: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 855: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
856: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
857: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
858: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
859: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
860: Can also be found online at:
861: <ul>
862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
863: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 864: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
865: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 866: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
868: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 869: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
870: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 871: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 872: </ul>
873: <p>
874:
875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 876: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
877: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 878: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 879: </strong></font><br>
880: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 881: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
882: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
883: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
884: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
885: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
886: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 890: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
891: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 892: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
893: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 894: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
895: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
896: at UPenn and DARPA.
897: <p>
898:
899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 900: [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,
901: France
1.315 deraadt 902: April 18, 2003.
903: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 904: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 908: [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 909: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 910: </strong></font><br>
911: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
912: <p>
913:
914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 915: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
916: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
917: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 918: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 919: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
920: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
921: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
922: <p>
923:
924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 925: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
926: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 927: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 928: </strong></font><br>
929: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
930: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
931: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 932: American century.
1.267 deraadt 933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 936: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
937: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 938: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 939: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 940: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
941: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
942: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
943: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
944: Can also be found online at:
945: <ul>
946: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
947: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 948: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 949: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 950: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 951: <p>
952:
953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 954: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 955: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 956: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 957: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 958: </strong></font><br>
959: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 960: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
961: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
962: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
963: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 964:
965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
966: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
967: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
968: New York Times.
969: </strong></font>(free registration required)
970:
1.273 deraadt 971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
972: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 973: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 974: ABC News.
975: </strong></font>
976:
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 978: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 979: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 980: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 981: </strong></font>
982:
983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 984: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 985: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 986: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 987: </strong></font>
988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 990: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
991: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 992: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 993: </strong></font>
994:
995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 996: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 997: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 998: Times Daily, AL.
999: </strong></font>
1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1002: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1003: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1004: Boston.com, MA.
1005: </strong></font>
1006:
1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1008: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1009: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1010: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1011: </strong></font>
1012:
1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1014: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1015: [Article was pulled]</a>
1016: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1017: </strong></font>
1018:
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1020: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1021: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1022: Infoshop News.
1023: </strong></font>
1024:
1025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1026: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1027: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1028: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1029: </strong></font>
1030:
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1032: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1033: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1034: Raleigh News, NC.
1035: </strong></font>
1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1038: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1039: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1040: Napa News, CA.
1041: </strong></font>
1042:
1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1044: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1045: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1046: NEPA News, PA.
1047: </strong></font>
1048:
1049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1050: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1051: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1052: Wired News.
1053: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1054: <br>
1055: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1056: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1057: [JAPANESE]
1058: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1059: Wired News Japan</a>
1060: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1061:
1.271 deraadt 1062: </ul>
1063: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1064: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1065: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1066: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1067: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1068: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1069: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1070: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1071: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1072: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1073: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1074: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1075: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1076: <p>
1077: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1080: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1081: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1082: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1083: </strong></font>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1086: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1087: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1088: Miami Herald, FL.
1089: </strong></font>
1090:
1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1092: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1093: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1094: </strong></font>
1095:
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1097: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1098: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1099: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1100: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1101:
1102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1103: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1104: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1105: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1106: ABC News.
1107: </strong></font>
1108:
1.276 deraadt 1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1110: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1111: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1112: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1113: </strong></font>
1114:
1.286 dhartmei 1115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1116: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1117: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1118: Wilmington Star, NC.
1119: </strong></font>
1120:
1.300 jose 1121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1122: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1123: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1124: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1125: </strong></font>
1126:
1.309 jose 1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1128: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1129: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1130: Globe Technology.
1131: </strong></font>
1132:
1.263 deraadt 1133: </ul>
1.262 beck 1134: <p>
1135:
1136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1137: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1138: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1139: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1140: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1141: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1142: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1143: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1147: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1148: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1149: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1150: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1151: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1152: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1153: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1154: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1155: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1156: and simply restates other press reports.
1157: <p>
1158:
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1160: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1161: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1162: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1163: </strong></font><br>
1164: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1165: <p>
1166:
1167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1168: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1169: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1170: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1171: </strong></font><br>
1172: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1173: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1174: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1175: <p>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1178: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1179: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1180: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1181: April 17, 2003.
1182: </strong></font><br>
1183: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1184: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1185: Tech Anthems</a>
1186: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1187: 4 so far.
1188: <p>
1189:
1190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1191: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1192: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1193: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1194: </strong></font><br>
1195: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1196: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1197: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1198: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1199: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1200: Goes on to say:
1201: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1202: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1203: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1204: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1205: This article is also found online at:
1206: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1208: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1209: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1210: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1211: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1213: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1214: ZDnet</a>,
1215: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1216: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1218: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1219: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1220: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1221: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1222: </ul>
1.260 ian 1223: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1224:
1.260 ian 1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1226: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1227: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1228: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1229: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1230: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1231: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1232: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1233: without notice or justification.
1234: <p>
1235:
1236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1237: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1238: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1239: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1240: </strong></font><br>
1241: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1242: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1243: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1244: effective today, without any warning..."
1245: <p>
1.257 ian 1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1248: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1249: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1250: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1251: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1252: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1253: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1254: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1255: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1256: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1257: <p>
1258:
1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1260: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1261: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1262: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1263: </strong></font><br>
1264: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1265: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1266: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1267: quoting two of them:
1268: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1269: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1270: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1271: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1272: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1273: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1274: <p>
1275:
1.255 ian 1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1277: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1278: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1279: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1280: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1281: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1285: [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 1286: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1287: </strong></font><br>
1288: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1289: <p>
1290:
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1292: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1293: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1294: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1295: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1296: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1297: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1298: security experts for more than three decades."
1299: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1300: <p>
1.261 ian 1301:
1.254 drahn 1302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1303: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1304: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1305: </strong></font><br>
1306: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1307: <p>
1308:
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1310: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1311: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1312: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1313: </strong></font><br>
1314: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1315: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1316: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1317: <p>
1318:
1319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1320: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1321: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1322: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1323: </strong></font><br>
1324: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1325: from US DARPA.
1326: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1327: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1328: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1329: the BSD license.
1330: <p>
1331: </ul>
1332:
1.251 ian 1333: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1334: <ul>
1335:
1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1337: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1338: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1339: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1340: </strong></font><br>
1341:
1342: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1343: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1344: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1345: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1346: <p>
1347:
1348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1349: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1350: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1351: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1352: </strong></font><br>
1353: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1354: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1355: Mentions
1356: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1357: and
1358: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1359: programs.
1360: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1361: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1362: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1363: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1364: <p>
1.325 ian 1365: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1366: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1367:
1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1369: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1370: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1371: </strong></font><br>
1372: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1373: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1374: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1375: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1376: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1377: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1378: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1379: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1380: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1381: put into service."
1382: <p>
1383: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1384: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1385: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1386: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1387: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1388: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1389: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1390: computers with security features."
1391: <p>
1.329 ian 1392:
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1394: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1395: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1396: Slate,
1397: March 3, 2003.
1398: </strong></font><br>
1399: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1400: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1401: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1402: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1403: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1404: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1405: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1406: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1407: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1408: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1409: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1410: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1411: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1412: of more secure open-source solutions like
1413: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1414: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1415: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1416: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1417: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1418: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1419: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1420: the Beltway."
1421: <p>
1.251 ian 1422: </ul>
1423:
1.249 jufi 1424: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1425: <ul>
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1427: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1428: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1429: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1430: </strong></font><br>
1431: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1432: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1433: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1434: <p>
1.334 ian 1435:
1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1437: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1438: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1439: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1440: </strong></font><br>
1441: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1442: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1443: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1444: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1445: "... the hypothetical question ...
1446: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1447: <br>
1448: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1449: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1450: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1451: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1452: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1453: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1454: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1455: support network security.
1456: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1457: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1458: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1459: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1460: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1461: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1462: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1463: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1464: <br>
1465: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1466: <p>
1467:
1.249 jufi 1468: </ul>
1469:
1.246 jufi 1470: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1471: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1472:
1.247 jufi 1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1474: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1475: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1476: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1477: </strong></font><br>
1478: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1479: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1480: <p>
1481:
1.247 jufi 1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1483: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1484: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1485: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1486: </strong></font><br>
1487: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1488: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1489: <p>
1490:
1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1492: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1493: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1494: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1495: </strong></font><br>
1496: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1497: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1498: <p>
1.247 jufi 1499: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1500:
1.244 jufi 1501: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1502: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1503:
1.247 jufi 1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1506: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1507: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1508: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1509: </strong></font><br>
1510: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1511: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1512: md5 digests.
1513: <p>
1514:
1.247 jufi 1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1516: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1517: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1518: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1519: </strong></font><br>
1520: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1521: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1522: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1523: right the first time."
1524: <p>
1.247 jufi 1525: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1526:
1527:
1528: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1529: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1532: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1533: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1534: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1535: </strong></font><br>
1536: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1538: part 6</a>.
1539: <p>
1540:
1.247 jufi 1541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1542: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1543: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1544: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1545: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1546: </strong></font><br>
1547: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1548: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1549: <p>
1.301 jose 1550:
1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1552: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1553: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1554: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1555: </strong></font><br>
1556:
1557: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1558: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1559: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1560: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1561: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1562: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1563: <i>Here's the
1564: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1565: <p>
1.247 jufi 1566: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1567:
1568: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1569: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1570:
1.247 jufi 1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1572: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1573: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1574: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1575: </strong></font><br>
1576: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1577: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1578: <p>
1579:
1.247 jufi 1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1581: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1582: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1583: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1584: </strong></font><br>
1585: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1586: this time using pf.
1587: <p>
1.247 jufi 1588: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1589:
1590: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1591: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1592:
1.247 jufi 1593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1594: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1595: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1596: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1597: </strong></font><br>
1598: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1599: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1600: their rotation.
1601: <p>
1602:
1.247 jufi 1603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1604: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1605: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1606: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1607: </strong></font><br>
1608: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1609: <p>
1.247 jufi 1610: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1611:
1.239 jufi 1612: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1613: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1614:
1.247 jufi 1615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1616: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1617: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1618: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1619: </strong></font><br>
1620: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1621: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1622: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1623: <p>
1624:
1.247 jufi 1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1626: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1627: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1628: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1629: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1630: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1631: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1632: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1633: <p>
1.247 jufi 1634: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1635:
1.235 lebel 1636: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1637: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1638:
1.239 jufi 1639:
1.247 jufi 1640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1641: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1642: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1643: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1644: </strong></font><br>
1645: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1646: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1647: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1648: <p>
1.301 jose 1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1651:
1.228 horacio 1652: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1653: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1654:
1.247 jufi 1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1656: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1657: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1658: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1659: </strong></font><br>
1660: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1661: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1662: <p>
1663:
1.247 jufi 1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1665: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1666: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1667: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1668: </strong></font><br>
1669: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1670: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1671: <p>
1672:
1.247 jufi 1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1674: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1675: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1676: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1677: </strong></font><br>
1678: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1679: on the desktop of his parents.
1680: <p>
1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1683: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1684: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1685: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1686: </strong></font><br>
1687: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1688: using IPFilter.
1689:
1690: <p>
1691:
1.247 jufi 1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1693: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1694: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1695: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1696: </strong></font><br>
1697: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1698: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1699: perspectives of the four OS.
1700: <br>
1701: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1702: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1703: <p>
1704:
1.247 jufi 1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1706: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1707: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1708: software and security</a>,
1709: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1710: </strong></font><br>
1711:
1712: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1713: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1714: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1715: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1716: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1717: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1718: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1719: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1720: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1721: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1722: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1723: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1724: <p>
1.247 jufi 1725: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1726:
1.225 horacio 1727: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1728: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1729:
1.247 jufi 1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1731: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1732: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1733: Interview</a>,
1734: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1735: </strong></font><br>
1736:
1737: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1738: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1739: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1740: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1741: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1742: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1743: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1744: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1745: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1746: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1747: of choice.
1748: <p>
1.247 jufi 1749: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1750:
1751: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1752: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1753:
1.247 jufi 1754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1755: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1756: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1757: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1758: </strong></font><br>
1759:
1760: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1761: <p>
1762:
1.247 jufi 1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1764: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1765: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1766: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1767: </strong></font><br>
1768:
1769: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1770: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1771: <p>
1.247 jufi 1772: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1773:
1.218 horacio 1774: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1775: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1776:
1.247 jufi 1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1778: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1779: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1780: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1781: </strong></font><br>
1782:
1783: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1784: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1785: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1786: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1787: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1788: subjects. Worth a read.
1789: <p>
1790:
1791:
1.247 jufi 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1793: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1794: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1795: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797:
1798: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1799: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1800: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1801: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1802: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1803: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1804: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1805: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1806: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1807: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1808: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1809: on other operating systems.<br>
1810: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1811: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1812: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1813: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1814: <p>
1815:
1.247 jufi 1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1817: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1818: Operating System 2010</a>,
1819: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1820: </strong></font><br>
1821:
1822: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1823: covering the level of software integration into the core
1824: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1825: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1826: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1827: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1828: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1829: <p>
1830:
1.247 jufi 1831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1832: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1833: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1834: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1835: </strong></font><br>
1836:
1837: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1838: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1839: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1840: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1841: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1842: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1843: <p>
1.247 jufi 1844: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1845:
1.210 jufi 1846: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1847: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1848:
1.247 jufi 1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1850: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1851: Already a Contender</a>,
1852: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1853: </strong></font><br>
1854:
1855: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1856: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1857: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1858: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1859: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1860: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1861: <p>
1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1864: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1865: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1866: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1867: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1868:
1.224 horacio 1869: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1870: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1871: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1872: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1873: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1874: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1875: <p>
1.247 jufi 1876: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1877:
1878: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1879: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1880:
1.247 jufi 1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1882: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1883: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1884: Division</a>,
1885: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1886: </strong></font><br>
1887:
1888: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1889: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1890: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1891: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1892: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1893: investment</em>.<br>
1894: The implementation details can be seen on their
1895: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1896: <p>
1897:
1.247 jufi 1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1899: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1900: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1901: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1902: </strong></font><br>
1903:
1904: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1905: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1906: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1907: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1908: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1909: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1910: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1911: <p>
1912:
1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1914: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1915: Thinking about Security</a>,
1916: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1917: </strong></font><br>
1918:
1919: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1920: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1921: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1922: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1923: to time.<br>
1924: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1925: system and just the most secure system.
1926: <p>
1927:
1.247 jufi 1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1929: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1930: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1931: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1932: </strong></font><br>
1933:
1934: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1935: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1936: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1937: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1938: choice:<br>
1939: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1940: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1941: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1942: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1943: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1944: network security devices and as such must be well
1945: armored."</em><br>
1946: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1947: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1948: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1949: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1950: <br>
1951: Bravo!
1952: <p>
1.247 jufi 1953: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1954:
1.207 ian 1955: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1956: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1957:
1.247 jufi 1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1959: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1960: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1961: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1962:
1.207 ian 1963: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1964: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1965: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1966: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1967: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1968: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1969: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1970: <p>
1.247 jufi 1971: </ul>
1.207 ian 1972:
1.194 jufi 1973: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1974: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1977: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1978: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1979: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1980: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1981:
1.240 miod 1982: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1983: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1984: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1985: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1986: <p>
1987:
1.247 jufi 1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1989: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1990: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1991: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1992:
1993: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1994: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1995: <p>
1996:
1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1998: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1999: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2000: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2001:
2002: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2003: <p>
2004:
2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2006: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2007: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2008: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2009: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2010:
1.240 miod 2011: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2012: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2013: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2014: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
2015: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2016: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2017: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2018: <br>
2019: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
2020: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2021: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2022: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2023: <p>
2024:
1.247 jufi 2025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2026: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2027: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2028: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2029: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2030:
1.194 jufi 2031: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2032: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2033: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2034: <br>
2035: The new
2036: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2037: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2038: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2039: <p>
1.247 jufi 2040: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2041:
1.190 horacio 2042: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2043: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2044:
1.247 jufi 2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2046:
2047: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2048: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2049:
1.301 jose 2050:
1.191 jufi 2051: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2052: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2053:
2054: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2055: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2056:
1.212 horacio 2057: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2058: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2059: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2060:
1.211 horacio 2061: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2062: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2063: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2064:
1.247 jufi 2065: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2066: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2067:
1.247 jufi 2068: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2069: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2070:
1.212 horacio 2071: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2072: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2073: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2074:
2075: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2076: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2077:
2078: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2079: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2080:
1.301 jose 2081: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2082: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2083:
1.191 jufi 2084: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2085: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2086:
2087: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2088: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2089:
1.192 jufi 2090: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2091: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2092: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2093:
1.193 deraadt 2094: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2095: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2096: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2097:
1.247 jufi 2098: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2099: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2100:
1.247 jufi 2101: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2102: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2103: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2104:
1.213 horacio 2105: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2106: 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 2107: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2108:
1.190 horacio 2109: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2110: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2111: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2112: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2113: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2114: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2115: <p>
1.190 horacio 2116:
1.247 jufi 2117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2118: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2119: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2120: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2121: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2122:
1.195 jufi 2123: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2124: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2125: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2126: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2127: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2128: <p>
2129:
1.247 jufi 2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2131: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2132: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2133: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2134: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2135:
1.191 jufi 2136: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2137: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2138: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2139: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2140: <p>
2141:
2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2143: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2144: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2145: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2146:
2147: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2148: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2149: <p>
1.247 jufi 2150: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2151:
1.191 jufi 2152:
1.186 jufi 2153: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2154: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2155:
1.247 jufi 2156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2157: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2158: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2159: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2160: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2161:
1.188 jufi 2162: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2163: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2164: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2165: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2166: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2167: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2168: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2169: <p>
2170:
1.301 jose 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2172: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2173: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2174: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2175:
2176: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2177: <p>
1.191 jufi 2178:
1.247 jufi 2179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2180: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2181: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2182: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2183: </strong></font><br>
2184:
2185: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2186: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2187: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2188: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2189: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2190: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2191: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2192: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2193: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2194: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2195: familiar?
2196: <p>
1.247 jufi 2197: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2198:
1.178 louis 2199: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2200: <ul>
1.178 louis 2201:
1.247 jufi 2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2203: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2204: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2205: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2206: </strong></font><br>
2207:
2208: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2209: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2210: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2211: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2212: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2213: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2214: <p>
2215:
1.247 jufi 2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2217: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2218: Open source under the hood</a>,
2219: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
2222: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2223: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2224: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2225: <p>
2226:
1.247 jufi 2227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2228: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2229: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2230: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2231: </strong></font><br>
2232:
2233: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2234: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2235: <p>
1.247 jufi 2236: </ul>
1.179 louis 2237:
1.174 louis 2238:
1.175 louis 2239: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2240: <ul>
1.175 louis 2241:
1.247 jufi 2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2243: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2244: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2245: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2246: </strong></font><br>
2247:
2248: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2249: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2250: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2251: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2252: <p>
2253:
1.247 jufi 2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2255: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2256: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2257: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2258: </strong></font><br>
2259:
2260: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2261: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2262: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2263: <p>
1.247 jufi 2264: </ul>
1.175 louis 2265:
1.176 louis 2266:
1.172 mickey 2267: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2268: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2271: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2272: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2273: </strong></font><br>
2274:
2275: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2276: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2277: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2278: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2279: <p>
2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2282: <a
1.269 deraadt 2283: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2284: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2285: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2286: </strong></font><br>
2287:
2288: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2289: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2290: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2291: <p>
2292:
1.247 jufi 2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2294: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2295: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2296: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2297: </strong></font><br>
2298:
2299: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2300: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2301: <p>
2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2304: <a
1.269 deraadt 2305: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2306: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2307: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2308: </strong></font><br>
2309:
2310: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2311: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2312: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2313: our own Theo de Raadt.
2314: <p>
2315:
1.247 jufi 2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2317: <a
1.269 deraadt 2318: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2319: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2320: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2321: </strong></font><br>
2322:
2323: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2324: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2325: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2326: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2327: shut down.]
2328: <p>
2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2331: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2332: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2333: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2334: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2335: </strong></font><br>
2336:
2337: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2338: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2339: <p>
1.247 jufi 2340: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2341:
1.161 louis 2342: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2343: <ul>
1.161 louis 2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2346: <a
1.269 deraadt 2347: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2348: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2349: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2353: by John Wolley
2354: <p>
2355:
1.247 jufi 2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2357: <a
1.269 deraadt 2358: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2359: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2360: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2364: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2365: OpenBSD).
2366: <p>
2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2369: <a
1.247 jufi 2370: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2371: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2375: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2376: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2377: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2378: and hindsight.
2379: <p>
2380:
1.247 jufi 2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2382: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2383: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385:
2386: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2387: <p>
2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2390: <a
1.168 provos 2391: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2392: December 7, 2000
2393: </strong></font><br>
2394:
2395: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2396: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2397: us explain.
2398: <p>
2399:
1.247 jufi 2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2401: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2402: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2403: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2404: December 6, 2000
2405: </strong></font><br>
2406:
2407: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2408: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2409: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.247 jufi 2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2413: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2414: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2415: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2419: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2420: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2421: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2422: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2423: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2424: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2425: <p>
2426:
2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2428: <a
1.226 horacio 2429: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2430: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2431: </strong></font><br>
2432:
2433: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2434: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2435: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2436: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2437: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2438: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2439: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2440: <p>
1.162 millert 2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2443: <a
1.161 louis 2444: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2445: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2446: </strong></font><br>
2447:
2448: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2449: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2450: <p>
2451:
1.247 jufi 2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2453: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2454: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2455: </strong></font><br>
2456:
2457: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2458: <p>
2459:
2460:
1.247 jufi 2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2462: <a
1.226 horacio 2463: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2464: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2465: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2466: </strong></font><br>
2467:
2468: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2469: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2470: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2471: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2472: <p>
1.247 jufi 2473: </ul>
1.169 louis 2474:
1.158 louis 2475: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2476: <ul>
1.147 louis 2477:
1.247 jufi 2478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2479: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2480: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2481: </strong></font><br>
2482:
2483: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2484: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2485: <p>
2486:
1.247 jufi 2487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2488: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2489: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2490: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2491: </strong></font><br>
2492: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2493: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2494: <p>
2495:
1.247 jufi 2496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2497: <a
2498: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2499: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2500: </strong></font><br>
2501:
2502: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2503: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2504: <p>
2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2507: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2508: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2509: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2510:
1.213 horacio 2511: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2512: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2513: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2514: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2515: <p>
1.215 horacio 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2518: <a
2519: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2520: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522:
2523: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2524: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2525: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2526: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2527: much of the attitude too).
2528: <p>
1.161 louis 2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2531: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2532: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2533: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2534:
1.157 louis 2535: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2536: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2537: <p>
1.247 jufi 2538: </ul>
1.157 louis 2539:
2540: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2541: <ul>
1.157 louis 2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2544: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2545: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2546: </strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2549: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2550: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2551: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2552: <p>
2553:
1.247 jufi 2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2555: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2556: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2557: </strong></font><br>
2558:
2559: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2560: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2561: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2562: it because they love coding...
2563: <p>
2564:
1.247 jufi 2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2566: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2567: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2568: </strong></font><br>
2569:
2570: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2571: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2572: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2573: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2574: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2575: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2576: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2577: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2578: <p>
2579:
1.247 jufi 2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2581: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2582: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2583: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2584: </strong></font><br>
2585:
2586: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2587: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2588: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2589: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2590: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2591: the pizza.
2592: <p>
2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2595: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2596: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2597: </strong></font><br>
2598:
2599: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2600: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2601: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2602: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2603: problems.
2604: <p>
2605:
1.247 jufi 2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2607: <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 2608: </strong></font><br>
2609:
1.222 miod 2610: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2611: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2612: - whether they like it or not.
2613: <p>
2614:
1.247 jufi 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2616: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2617: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2618: </strong></font><br>
2619:
2620: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2621: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2622: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2623: <p>
1.148 aaron 2624:
1.247 jufi 2625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2626: <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 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628:
2629: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2630: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2631: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2632: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2633: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2634: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2635: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2636: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2637: <p>
2638:
1.247 jufi 2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2640: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2641: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2642: </strong></font><br>
2643:
2644: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2645: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2646: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2647: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2648: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2649: <p>
1.247 jufi 2650: </ul>
1.147 louis 2651:
1.138 louis 2652: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2653: <ul>
1.138 louis 2654:
1.247 jufi 2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2656: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2657: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2658: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2659: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2660: </strong></font><br>
2661:
1.227 horacio 2662: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2663: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2664: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2665: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2666: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2667: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2668: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2669: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2670: <p>
2671:
1.247 jufi 2672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2673: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2674: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2675: </strong></font><br>
2676:
2677: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2678: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2679: groups, and even Linux.
2680: <p>
2681:
1.247 jufi 2682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2683: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2684: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2685: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2686: </strong></font><br>
2687:
2688: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2689: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2690: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2691: library after installing the OS.
2692: <p>
2693:
1.247 jufi 2694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2695: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2696: Sys Admin, September 2000
2697: </strong></font><br>
2698:
2699: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2700: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2701: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2702: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2703: (<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>,
2704: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2705: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2706: <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 2707: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2708: out of the system.
2709: <p>
2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2712: <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
2713: </strong></font><br>
2714:
2715: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2716: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2717: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2718: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2719: the IP filtering and address translation.
2720: <p>
1.301 jose 2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2723: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2724: </strong></font><br>
2725:
2726: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2727: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2728: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2729: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2730: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2731: <p>
1.247 jufi 2732: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2733:
1.131 louis 2734: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2735: <ul>
1.131 louis 2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2738: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2739: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2740: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2741: </strong></font><br>
2742:
2743: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2744: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2745: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2746: <p>
2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2749: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2750: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2751: </strong></font><br>
2752:
2753: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2754: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2755: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2756: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2757: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2758: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2759: note of"</i>.
2760: <p>
2761:
1.247 jufi 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2763: <a
1.247 jufi 2764: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2765: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2766: </strong></font><br>
2767:
2768: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2769: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2770: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2771: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2772: <p>
2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2775: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2776: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
2779: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2780: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2781: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2782: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2783: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2784: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2785: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2786: <p>
2787:
1.247 jufi 2788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2789: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2790: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2791: 2000
2792: </strong></font><br>
2793:
2794: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2795: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2796: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2797: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2798: against current industry practices.
2799: <p>
2800:
1.247 jufi 2801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2802: <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
2803: </strong></font><br>
2804:
2805: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2806: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2807: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2808: <p>
2809:
1.247 jufi 2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2811: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2812: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2813: </strong></font><br>
2814:
2815: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2816: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2817: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2818: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2819: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2820: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2821: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2822: <p>
2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2825: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2826: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2827: </strong></font><br>
2828:
2829: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2830: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2831: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2832: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2833: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2834: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2835: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2836: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2837: <p>
1.247 jufi 2838: </ul>
1.131 louis 2839:
1.118 louis 2840: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2841: <ul>
1.118 louis 2842:
1.247 jufi 2843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2844: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2845: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2846: </strong></font><br>
2847:
2848: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2849: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2850: about time. The article mentions that
2851: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2852: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2853: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2854: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2855: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2856: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2857: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2858: <p>
2859:
1.247 jufi 2860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2861: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2862: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2863: </strong></font><br>
2864:
2865: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2866: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2867: of OpenSSH.
2868: <p>
2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2871: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2872: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2873: </strong></font><br>
2874:
2875: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2876: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2877: bridging.
2878: <p>
2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2881: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2882: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2883: </strong></font><br>
2884:
1.121 deraadt 2885: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2886: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2887: <p>
2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2890: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2891: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2892: </strong></font><br>
2893:
2894: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2895: <p>
2896:
1.247 jufi 2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2898: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2899: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2900: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2901: </strong></font><br>
2902:
1.120 deraadt 2903: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2904: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2905: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2906: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2907: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2908: <p>
2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2911: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2912: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2913: </strong></font><br>
2914:
1.222 miod 2915: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2916: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2917: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2918: protocols and their quirks.
2919: <p>
2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2922: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2923: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2924: </strong></font><br>
2925:
2926: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2927: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2928: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2929: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2930: <p>
2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2933: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2934: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2935: </strong></font><br>
2936:
2937: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2938: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2939: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2940: <p>
2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2943: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2944: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2945: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2949: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2950: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2951: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2952: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2953: <p>
1.247 jufi 2954: </ul>
1.118 louis 2955:
1.104 louis 2956: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2957: <ul>
1.104 louis 2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2960: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2961: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2962: </strong></font><br>
2963:
2964: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2965: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2966: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2967: be a bit dry.
2968: <p>
2969:
1.247 jufi 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2971: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2972: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2973: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2974: </strong></font><br>
2975: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2976: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2977: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2978: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2979: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2980: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2981: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2982: <p>
2983:
1.247 jufi 2984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2985: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2986: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2987: 2000
1.128 louis 2988: </strong></font><br>
2989:
2990: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2991: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2992: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2993: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2994: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2995: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2996: <p>
2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2999: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3000: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3001: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3002:
3003: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3004: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3005: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3006: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3007: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3008: <p>
1.110 louis 3009:
1.247 jufi 3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3011: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3012: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3013: </strong></font><br>
3014:
3015: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3016: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3017: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3018: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3019: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3020: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3021: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3022: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3023: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3024: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3025: <p>
3026:
1.247 jufi 3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3028: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3029: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3030:
3031: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3032: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3033: <p>
1.108 louis 3034:
1.247 jufi 3035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3036: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3037: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3038: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3039:
3040: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3041: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3042: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3043: <p>
1.106 louis 3044:
1.247 jufi 3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3046: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3047: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3048: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3049:
3050: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3051: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3052: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3053: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3054: <p>
1.107 louis 3055:
1.247 jufi 3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3057: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3058: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3059: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3060:
3061: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3062: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3063: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3064: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3065: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3066: <p>
1.105 louis 3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3069: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3070: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3071: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3072:
1.113 naddy 3073: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3074: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3075: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3076: <p>
1.104 louis 3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3079: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3080: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3081: </strong></font><br>
3082:
3083: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3084: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3085: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3086: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3087: <p>
1.301 jose 3088:
3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3090: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3091: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3092: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3093:
3094: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3095: hardware-supported cryptography.
3096: <p>
1.247 jufi 3097: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3098:
1.85 louis 3099: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3100: <ul>
1.85 louis 3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3103: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3104: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3105: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3106:
3107: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3108: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3109: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3110: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3111: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3112: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3113: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3114: <p>
1.99 louis 3115:
1.247 jufi 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3117: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3118: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3119: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3120:
3121: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3122: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3123: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3124: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3125: <p>
1.100 louis 3126:
1.247 jufi 3127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3128: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3129: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3130: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3131:
3132: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3133: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3134: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3135: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3136: <p>
1.95 louis 3137:
1.247 jufi 3138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3139: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3140: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3141: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3142:
3143: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3144: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3145: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3146: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3147: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3148: <p>
1.92 louis 3149:
1.247 jufi 3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3151: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3152: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3153: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3154:
3155: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3156: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3157: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3158: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3159: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3160: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3161: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3162: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3163: <p>
1.91 louis 3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3166: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3167: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3168: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3169:
3170: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3171: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3172: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3173: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3174: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3175: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3176: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3177: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3178: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3179: <p>
1.90 louis 3180:
1.247 jufi 3181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3182: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3183: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3184: </strong></font><br>
3185: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3186: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3187: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3188: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3189: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3190: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3191: <p>
3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3194: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3195: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3196: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3197:
1.113 naddy 3198: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3199: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3200: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3201: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3202: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3203: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3204: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3205: <p>
1.87 louis 3206:
1.247 jufi 3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3208: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3209: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3210: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3211:
3212: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3213: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3214: <p>
1.85 louis 3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3217: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3218: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3219: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3220:
3221: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3222: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3223: <p>
3224:
3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3226: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3227: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3228: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3229:
3230: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3231: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3232: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3233: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3234: <p>
1.89 louis 3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3237: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3238: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3239: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3240:
3241: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3242: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3243: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3244: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3245: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3246: </ul>
1.85 louis 3247:
1.78 deraadt 3248: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3249: <ul>
1.74 louis 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3252: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3253: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3254: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3255: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3256:
3257: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3258: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3259: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3260: <p>
1.83 louis 3261:
1.247 jufi 3262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3263: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3264: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3265: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3266:
3267: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3268: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3269: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3270: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3271: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3272: <p>
1.93 louis 3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3275: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3276: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3277: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3278: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3279:
1.83 louis 3280: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3281: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3282: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3283: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3284: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3285: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3286: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3287: <p>
1.82 aaron 3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3290: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3291: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3292: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3293:
1.83 louis 3294: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3295: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3296: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3297: <p>
1.80 louis 3298:
1.247 jufi 3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3300: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3301: Bad Press</a>,
3302: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3303: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3304:
3305: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3306: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3307: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3308: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3309: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3310: <p>
1.247 jufi 3311: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3312:
3313: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3314: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3315:
1.247 jufi 3316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3317: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3318: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3319: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3321:
3322: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3323: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3324: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3325: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3326: <p>
1.74 louis 3327:
1.247 jufi 3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3329: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3330: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3331: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3332:
1.219 horacio 3333: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3334: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3335: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3336: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3337: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3338: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3339: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3340: <p>
1.88 louis 3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3343: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3344: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3345: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3346:
3347: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3348: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3349: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3350: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3351: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3352: <p>
1.81 louis 3353:
1.247 jufi 3354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3355: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3356: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3357: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3358:
3359: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3360: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3361: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3362: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3363: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3364: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3365: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3366: <p>
1.90 louis 3367:
1.247 jufi 3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3369: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3370: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3371: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3372:
3373: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3374: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3375: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3376: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3377: <p>
1.247 jufi 3378: </ul>
1.71 louis 3379:
1.69 deraadt 3380: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3381: <ul>
1.70 louis 3382:
1.247 jufi 3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3384: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3385: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3386: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3387:
3388: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3389: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3390: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3391: <p>
1.70 louis 3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3394: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3395: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3396: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3397:
3398: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3399: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3400: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3401: <p>
1.68 louis 3402:
1.247 jufi 3403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3404: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3405: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3406: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3407: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3408:
1.111 jufi 3409: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3410: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3411: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3412: "secure by default" installation.
3413: <p>
1.64 louis 3414:
1.247 jufi 3415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3416: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3417: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3418: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3419:
1.113 naddy 3420: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3421: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3422: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3423: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3424: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3425: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3426: <p>
1.66 louis 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3429: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3430: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3431: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3432:
3433: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3434: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3435: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3436: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3437: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3438: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3439: <p>
1.83 louis 3440:
1.247 jufi 3441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3442: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3443: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3444: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3445:
3446: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3447: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3448: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3449: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3450: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3451: <p>
1.64 louis 3452:
1.247 jufi 3453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3454: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3455: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3456: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3457:
3458: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3459: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3460: <p>
1.301 jose 3461:
3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3463: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3464: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3465: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3466: </strong></font><br>
3467:
3468: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3469: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3470: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3471: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3472: Giving way to
3473: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3474: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3475: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3476: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3477: <p>
1.247 jufi 3478: </ul>
1.65 louis 3479:
1.69 deraadt 3480: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3481: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3484: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3485: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3486: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3487:
3488: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3489: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3490: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3491: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3492: <p>
1.88 louis 3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3495: <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 3496: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3497:
3498: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3499: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3500: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3501: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3502: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3503: <p>
1.60 louis 3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3506: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3507: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3508: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3509: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3510:
3511: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3512: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3513: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3514: <p>
1.58 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3517: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3518: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3519:
3520: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3521: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3522: <p>
1.53 louis 3523:
1.247 jufi 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3525: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3526: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3527: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3528:
3529: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3530: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3531: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3532: <p>
1.99 louis 3533:
1.247 jufi 3534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3535: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3536: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3537:
3538: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3539: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3540: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3541: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3542: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3543:
1.247 jufi 3544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3545: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3546: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3547: </strong></font><br>
3548:
3549: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3550: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3551: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3552: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3553: <p>
3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3556: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3557: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3558: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3559:
3560: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3561: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3562: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3565: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3566: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3567:
3568: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3569: in
1.247 jufi 3570: <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 3571: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3572: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3573: <p>
1.53 louis 3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3576: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3577: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3578: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3579: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3580:
1.58 louis 3581: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3582: <p>
1.301 jose 3583:
3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3585: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3586: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3587: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3588: Informacyjny, January 2000
3589: </strong></font><br>
3590:
3591: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3592: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3593: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3594: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3595: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3596: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3597: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3598: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3599: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3600: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3601: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3602: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3603: <p>
3604:
3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3606: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3607: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3608: </strong></font><br>
3609:
3610: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3611: <p>
3612: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3613:
1.69 deraadt 3614: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3615: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3616:
1.247 jufi 3617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3618: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3619: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3620: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3621: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3622:
1.58 louis 3623: Kurt Seifried
3624: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3625: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3626: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3627: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3628:
1.247 jufi 3629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3630: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3631: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3632: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3633:
3634: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3635: <p>
1.96 louis 3636:
1.247 jufi 3637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3638: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3639: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3640: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3641: </strong></font><br>
3642:
3643: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3644: <p>
3645:
3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3647: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3648: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3649: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3650:
3651: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3652: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3653: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3654: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3655: <p>
1.247 jufi 3656: </ul>
1.86 louis 3657:
1.69 deraadt 3658: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3659: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3662: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3663: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3664: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3665:
3666: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3667: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3668: <p>
1.61 louis 3669:
1.247 jufi 3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3671: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3672: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3673: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3674: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3675:
3676: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3677: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3678: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3679: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3680: right -- or at least strives to".
3681: <p>
1.48 louis 3682:
1.247 jufi 3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3684: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3685: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3686: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3687: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3688: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3689: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3690: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3691: <p>
1.61 louis 3692:
1.247 jufi 3693: <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 3694: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3695: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3696:
3697: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3698: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3699: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3700: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3701: <p>
1.46 louis 3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3704: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3705: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3706: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3707:
3708: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3709: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3710: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3713: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3714: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3715: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3716:
3717: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3718: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3719: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3720: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3721: <p>
1.247 jufi 3722: </ul>
1.70 louis 3723:
1.69 deraadt 3724: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3725: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3726:
1.247 jufi 3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3728: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3729: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3730: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3731: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3732:
3733: Kurt Seifried
3734: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3735: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3736: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3737: <p>
1.44 philen 3738:
1.247 jufi 3739: <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 3740: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3741: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3742:
3743: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3744: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <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 3747: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3748: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3749:
3750: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3751: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3752:
1.247 jufi 3753: <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 3754: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3755: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3756:
3757: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3758: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3759: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3760: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3761: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3762:
1.247 jufi 3763: <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 3764: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3765: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3766:
1.36 louis 3767: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3768: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3769:
1.247 jufi 3770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3771: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3772: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3773: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3774:
3775: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3776: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3777: </ul>
1.38 louis 3778:
1.69 deraadt 3779: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3780: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3781:
1.247 jufi 3782: <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 3783: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3784: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3785:
3786: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3787: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3788: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3789:
1.113 naddy 3790: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3791: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3792: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3793: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3794:
3795: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3796: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3797: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3798: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3799: <blockquote>
3800: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3801: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3802: <br>
3803: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3804: </code>
3805: </blockquote>
3806: <p>
3807:
1.247 jufi 3808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3809: <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 3810: <p>
3811:
3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3813: <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 3814: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3815:
3816: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3817: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3818: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3819: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3822: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3823: Sept. 28, 1999
3824: </strong></font><br>
3825:
3826: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3827: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3828: translating and reprinting articles from
3829: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3830: <p>
3831:
3832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3833: <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 3834: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3835:
3836: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3837: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3838: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3839: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3840: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3841: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3842: <p>
1.19 louis 3843:
1.113 naddy 3844: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3845: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3846: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3847:
3848: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3849: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3850: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3851: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3852: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3853: <p>
1.16 louis 3854:
1.247 jufi 3855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3856: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3857: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3858: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3859:
1.57 louis 3860: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3861: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3862: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3863: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3864:
1.247 jufi 3865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3866: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3867: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3868: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3869:
1.113 naddy 3870: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3871:
1.247 jufi 3872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3873: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3874: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3875: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3876:
1.23 louis 3877: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3878: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3879: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3880: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3881: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3882: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3883:
1.247 jufi 3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3885: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3886: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3887: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3888:
1.199 pvalchev 3889: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3890: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3891: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3892: installation.
1.113 naddy 3893: <p>
1.47 louis 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3896: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3897: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3898: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3899:
1.301 jose 3900: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3901: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3902: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3903: </ul>
1.57 louis 3904:
1.69 deraadt 3905: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3906: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3909: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3910: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3911: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3912:
3913: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3914: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3915: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3916: <p>
1.12 louis 3917:
1.247 jufi 3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3919: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3920: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3921: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3922:
3923: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3924: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3925: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3926: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3927: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3928: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3929: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3930: <p>
1.247 jufi 3931: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3932:
1.69 deraadt 3933: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3934: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3935:
1.247 jufi 3936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3937: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3938: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3939:
3940: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3941: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3942: available."
1.113 naddy 3943: <p>
1.301 jose 3944:
3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3946: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3947: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3948: </strong></font><br>
3949:
3950: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3951: <p>
1.247 jufi 3952: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3953:
1.69 deraadt 3954: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3955: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3958: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3959: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3960:
3961: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3962: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3963: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3964: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3965: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3966: <p>
1.33 louis 3967:
1.247 jufi 3968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3969: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3970: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3971: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3972:
1.113 naddy 3973: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3974: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3975: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3976: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3977: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3978: <p>
1.247 jufi 3979: </ul>
1.57 louis 3980:
1.69 deraadt 3981: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3982: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3983:
1.247 jufi 3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3985: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3986: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3987: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3988:
3989: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3990: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3991: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3994: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3995: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3996: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3997: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3998:
3999: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4000: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4003: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4004:
1.113 naddy 4005: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4006:
1.247 jufi 4007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4008: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4009: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4010: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4011:
4012: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4013: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4014: </ul>
1.23 louis 4015:
1.69 deraadt 4016: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4017: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4018:
1.247 jufi 4019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4020: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4021: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4022:
4023: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4024: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4025: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4026:
1.247 jufi 4027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4028: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4029: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4030: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4031:
4032: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4033: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4034: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4035: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4036: </ul>
1.57 louis 4037:
1.69 deraadt 4038: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4039: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4042: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4043: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4044: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4045:
4046: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4047: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4048: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4049: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4050: <p>
1.15 louis 4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4053: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4054: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4055: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4056:
4057: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4058: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4059: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4060: columns."
1.113 naddy 4061: <p>
1.247 jufi 4062: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4063:
1.69 deraadt 4064: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4065: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4068: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4069: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4070: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4071:
4072: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4073: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4074:
1.113 naddy 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4076: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4077: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4078:
4079: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4080: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4081: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4082: </ul>
1.57 louis 4083:
1.69 deraadt 4084: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4085: <ul>
1.301 jose 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4087: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4088: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4089: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4090:
4091: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4092: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4093: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4094: <p>
4095:
4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4097: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4098: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4099: Nov 13, 1998 and
4100: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4101: Datateknik</a>,
4102: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4103:
1.380 saad 4104: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4105: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4106: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4107: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4108: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4109:
1.113 naddy 4110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4111: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4112: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4113: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4114:
1.222 miod 4115: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4116: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4117: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4118: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4119: <p>
1.247 jufi 4120: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4121:
1.69 deraadt 4122: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4123: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4124:
1.247 jufi 4125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4126: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4127: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4128:
1.69 deraadt 4129: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4130: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4131: <p>
1.247 jufi 4132: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4133:
1.69 deraadt 4134: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4135: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4138: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4139: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4140: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4141:
1.383 jcs 4142: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4143: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4144: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4147: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4148: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4149: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4150: <p>
1.247 jufi 4151: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4152:
1.69 deraadt 4153: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4154: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4155:
1.247 jufi 4156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4157: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4158: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4159: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4160: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4161: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4162:
4163: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4164: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4165: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4166: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4167: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4168: <p>
1.247 jufi 4169: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4170:
4171: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4172: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4175: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4176: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4177:
1.69 deraadt 4178: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4179: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4180: <p>
1.112 naddy 4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4183: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4184:
1.292 camield 4185: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4186: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4187: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.405 ! jolan 4188: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.404 2004/09/10 02:09:18 jolan Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4189:
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