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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.407 henning 19: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 22: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
23: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 ! saad 24: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.408 nick 25: Amazingly detailed interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
26: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
27: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
28: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 ! saad 29: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 30: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
31: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
32: in spite of it
33: (registration required, but worth it).
34: <p>
35:
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
37: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
38: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
39: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
40: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
41: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
42: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
43: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 ! saad 44: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 45: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
46: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
47: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
48: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 52: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
53: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
54: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
55: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
56: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
57: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
58: <blockquote>
59: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
60: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
61: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
62: a lot of analysis.
63: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
64: </blockquote>
65: <p>
66: </ul>
67:
1.400 marco 68: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
69: <ul>
70: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 71: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
72: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
73: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
74: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
75: UNIX-like systems.
76: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
77: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
78: <p>
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.406 nick 80: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature"
81: >Going further to stop hackers</a>
82: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
83: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
84: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
85: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
86: At one point, the article states:
87: <blockquote>
88: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
89: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
90: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
91: </blockquote>
92: And then quotes Theo as saying:
93: <blockquote>
94: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
95: fewer are reading or auditing code."
96: </blockquote>
97: <p>
98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
99: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
100: marks its fifth birthday</a>
101: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
102: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
103: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
104: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
105: required).
106: <p>
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 108: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
109: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
110: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
111: </strong></font><br>
112: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
113: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
114: <p>
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 116: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
117: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 118: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 119: </strong></font><br>
120: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
121: <p>
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 123: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
124: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 125: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 126: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 127: 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 128: <p>
129: </ul>
130:
1.396 henning 131: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
132: <ul>
133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 134: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 135: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
136: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
137: </strong></font><br>
138: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
139: <p>
140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 141: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 142: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
143: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
144: </strong></font><br>
145: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
146: <p>
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 148: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
149: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
150: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
151: </strong></font><br>
152: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
153: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
154: <p>
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 156: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
157: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
158: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
159: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
160: <p>
161: </ul>
162:
1.405 jolan 163: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
164: <ul>
165: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
166: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
167: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
168: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
169: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
170: details on how funds are dispersed.
171: <p>
172: </ul>
173:
1.393 david 174: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
175: <ul>
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 177: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
178: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
179: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
180: </strong></font><br>
181: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
182: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
183: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
184: on inserting large number of SQL records.
185: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
186: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
187: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 191: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
192: Secure by Default</a>,
193: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
194: </strong></font><br>
195: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
196: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
200: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
201: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
202: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
203: </strong></font><br>
204: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
205: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
206: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
207: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
208: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
209: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
210: <p>
211:
212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
213: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
214: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
215: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
216: </strong></font><br>
217: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
218: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
219: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
223: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
224: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
225: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
226: </strong></font><br>
227: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
228: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
229: <p>
230: </ul>
231:
1.388 mcbride 232: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
233: <ul>
1.394 jolan 234:
235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
236: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
237: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
238: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
239: </strong></font><br>
240: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
241: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
242: available for sparc64.
243: <p>
244:
1.390 beck 245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 246: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
247: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
248: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
249: </strong></font><br>
250: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
251: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
252: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
253: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 257: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
258: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 259: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 260: </strong></font><br>
261: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
262: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
263: it does: CARP provides sharing
264: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
265: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
266: detail to get you started using it.
267: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
268: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
269: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
270: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
271: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
272: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
273: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 274: <p>
1.391 ian 275:
276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 277: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 278: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
279: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 280: </strong></font><br>
281: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 282: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 283: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 284: <p>
1.388 mcbride 285:
286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
287: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
288: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 289: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 290: </strong></font><br>
291: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
292: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
293: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
294: unencumbered by patents.
295: <p>
296: </ul>
297:
1.378 henning 298: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
299: <ul>
1.384 jose 300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 302: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
303: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
304: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
305: </strong></font><br>
306: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
307: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
308: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
309: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
310: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
311: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
312: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
313: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
314: in the page tables."
315: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
316: <p>
317:
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 319: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
320: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
321: </strong></font><br>
322: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
323: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
324: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
325: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 326: <p>
1.384 jose 327:
1.378 henning 328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
330: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 331: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
332: </strong></font><br>
333: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
334: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
335: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
336: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
337: (quote:
338: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
339: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 340: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 341: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
342: the other developers for their work on the system.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 346: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
347: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
348: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 349: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 350: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
351: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
352: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
353: too.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 357: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
358: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 359: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 360: OpenBSD source code using
361: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
362: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
363: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
364: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
365: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
366: <p>
367: </ul>
368:
1.374 jose 369: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
370: <ul>
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 372: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 373: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
374: </strong></font><br>
375: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
376: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
377: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
378: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
379: it."
380: <p>
381:
382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 383: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
384: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
385: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
386: </strong></font><br/>
387: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
388: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
389: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
390: <p>
391: </ul>
392:
1.369 ian 393: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
394: <ul>
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 396: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
397: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
398: </strong></font><br/>
399: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
400: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
401: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
402: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 406: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
407: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
408: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
409: </strong></font><br/>
410: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
411: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
412: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
413: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
414: form factor.
415: <p>
416:
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
418: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
419: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
420: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
421: Features</a>,
422: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
423: </strong></font><br/>
424: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
425: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
426: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
427: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
428: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
429: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
430: <p>
431: This article can also be found online at:
432: <ul>
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 434: <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 435: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
436: </strong></font>
437: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
438: </ul>
439: <p>
1.392 david 440:
1.371 jose 441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 442: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
443: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 444: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
445: </strong></font><br/>
446: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
447: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
448: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 449: <p>
1.371 jose 450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 452: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 453: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 454: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 455: </strong></font><br/>
456: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
457: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
458: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
459: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
460: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
461: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
462: and its history with OpenBSD.
463: </ul>
464:
1.368 henning 465: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
466: <ul>
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 468: [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 469: </strong></font><br>
470: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
471: </ul>
472:
1.364 jose 473: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
474: <ul>
475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 476: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
477: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
478: UNIX Review,
479: July, 2003.
480: </strong></font><br>
481: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
482: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
483: who want more information.
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 487: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
488: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
489: Government Computer News,
490: July 22, 2003.
491: </strong></font><br>
492: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
493: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
494: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
495: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
496: <p>
497:
498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
499: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
500: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
501: SANS Institute,
502: July 22, 2003.
503: </strong></font><br>
504: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 505: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 506: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
507: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
508: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
509: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
510: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
511: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
512: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
513: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
514: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
515: <p>
516:
517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
519: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
520: OnLamp.com,
521: July 17, 2003.
522: </strong></font><br>
523: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
524: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
525: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
526: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
527: have been working on.
528:
529: </ul>
530:
1.356 jose 531: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 532: <ul>
533:
534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 535: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
536: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
537: UNIX Review,
538: June, 2003.
539: </strong></font><br>
540: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
541: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
542: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
543: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
544: <p>
545:
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 547: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
548: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
549: eWeek,
550: June 23, 2003.
551: </strong></font><br>
552: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
553: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
554: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
555: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
556: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
557: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 561: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
562: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
563: Software Development Online,
564: June, 2003.
565: </strong></font><br>
566: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
567: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
568: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
569: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
570: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
571: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
572: current activities.
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 576: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
577: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 578: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
579: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
580: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
581: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
582: year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
583: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
584: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
585: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 586: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 587: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
588: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
589: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
590: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
591: decisions.
592: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
593: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
594: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
595: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 596: <p>
597:
598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 599: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
600: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
601: Page 58, eWeek,
602: June 2, 2003.
603: </strong></font><br>
604: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
605: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
606: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
607: been addressed in -current.
608: <p>
609:
1.356 jose 610: </ul>
611:
612: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
613: <ul>
614:
1.355 jose 615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 616: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
617: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
618: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
619: </strong></font><br>
620: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
621: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
622: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
623: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
624: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
625: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
626: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
627: <p>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 630: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
631: Beyond Linux</a>,
632: InfoWorld,
633: May 23, 2003.
634: </strong></font><br>
635: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
636: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
637: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
638: compared to the GPL.
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 642: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
643: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
644: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 645: May 17, 2003.
646: </strong></font><br>
647: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
648: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
649: the business section and half of another page inside
650: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
651: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
652: in talking about the project's history and goals.
653: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
654: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
655: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
656: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 657: <br>
658: This article can also be found online at:
659: <ul>
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
661: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
662: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
663: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
664: May 17, 2003
665: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 666: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
668: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
669: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
670: Montreal Gazette,
671: May 21, 2003
672: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 673: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 674: <p>
1.346 ian 675:
676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 677: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 678: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 679: May 7, 2003.
680: </strong></font><br>
681: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
682: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
683: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 687: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
688: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
689: OsOpinion,
690: May 6, 2003.
691: </strong></font><br>
692: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
693: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
694: <br>
695: This article can also be found online at:
696: <ul>
697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
698: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
699: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
700: NewsFactor Network.
701: </strong></font>
702: </ul>
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 706: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 707: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
708: ITBusiness,
709: May 2, 2003.
710: </strong></font><br>
711: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
712: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
713: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
714: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 718: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
719: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
720: InfoWorld,
721: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 722: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 723: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
724: <br>
725: This article can also be found online at:
726: <ul>
727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
728: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
729: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
730: IDG Singapore.
731: </strong></font>
732: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 733: <p>
734:
1.339 jose 735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
736: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
737: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 738: ZDNet,
739: May 1, 2003.
740: </strong></font><br>
741: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 742: someone using parts from previous articles.
743: <br>
1.341 deraadt 744: This article can also be found online at:
745: <ul>
746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
747: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
748: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
749: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 750: </strong></font>
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
752: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
753: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
754: CNET News.com.
755: </strong></font>
756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
757: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
758: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
759: ZDNet UK.
760: </strong></font>
761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
762: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
763: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
764: Help Net Security, Croatia.
765: </strong></font>
766: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 767: <p>
1.339 jose 768:
1.341 deraadt 769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 770: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 771: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
772: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
773: May 1, 2003.
774: </strong></font><br>
775: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
776: that have been added
777: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
778: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
779: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 780: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 781: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
782: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
783: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 784: <p>
785:
786: </ul>
787:
1.253 ian 788: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
789: <ul>
1.255 ian 790:
1.260 ian 791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 792: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 793: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
794: TechRepublic,
795: April 28, 2003.
796: </strong></font><br>
797: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
798: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 799: work.<br>
800: Can also be found online at:
801: <ul>
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
803: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
804: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
805: ZDNet UK.
806: </strong></font>
807: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 808: <p>
809:
810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 811: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
812: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
813: IDG,
814: April 24, 2003.
815: </strong></font><br>
816: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
817: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
818: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
819: Can also be found online at:
820: <ul>
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
822: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
823: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 824: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 825: </strong></font>
826: </ul>
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
830: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 831: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 832: Slate,
833: April 24, 2003.
834: </strong></font><br>
835: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
836: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
837: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
838: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
839: <p>
840:
841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 842: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
843: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
844: April 24, 2003.
845: </strong></font><br>
846: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
847: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
848: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
849: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 853: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
854: April 24, 2003.
855: </strong></font><br>
856: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
857: the free software community".
858: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
859: other articles.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 863: <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 864: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
865: </strong></font><br>
866: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
867: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
868: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
869: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
870: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
871: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
872: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
873: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
874: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
875: <br/>
876: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
877: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
878: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
879: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 880: <br>
881: Can also be found online at:
882: <ul>
883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
884: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
885: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
886: Common Dreams NewsCenter
887: </strong></font>
888: </ul>
1.324 ian 889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
892: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
893: Wired, April 24, 2003.
894: </strong></font><br>
895: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
896: article above.
897: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
898: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
899: wasting them."
1.332 ian 900: <br>
901: Can also be found online at:
902: <ul>
903: <li>
904: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
905: </strong></font>
906: </ul>
1.324 ian 907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 910: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
911: </strong></font><br>
912: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 916: <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.
917: </strong></font><br>
918: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
919: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
920: <p>
921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 923: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
924: April 23, 2003.
925: </strong></font><br>
926: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
927: <p>
928:
929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 930: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 931: April 22, 2003.
932: </strong></font><br>
933: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
934: <p>
935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 937: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
938: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
939: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 940: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 941: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
942: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
943: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
944: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
945: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
946: Can also be found online at:
947: <ul>
948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
949: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 950: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
951: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 952: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
954: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 955: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
956: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 957: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 958: </ul>
959: <p>
960:
961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 962: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
963: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 964: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 965: </strong></font><br>
966: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 967: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
968: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
969: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
970: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
971: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
972: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 973: <p>
974:
975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 976: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
977: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 978: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
979: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 980: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
981: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
982: at UPenn and DARPA.
983: <p>
984:
985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 986: [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,
987: France
1.315 deraadt 988: April 18, 2003.
989: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 990: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 991: <p>
992:
993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 994: [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 995: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 996: </strong></font><br>
997: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
998: <p>
999:
1000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1001: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1002: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1003: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1004: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1005: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1006: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1007: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1008: <p>
1009:
1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1011: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1012: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1013: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1014: </strong></font><br>
1015: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1016: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1017: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1018: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1022: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1023: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1024: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1025: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1026: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1027: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1028: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1029: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1030: Can also be found online at:
1031: <ul>
1032: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1033: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1034: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1035: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1036: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1040: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1041: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1042: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1043: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1044: </strong></font><br>
1045: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1046: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1047: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1048: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1049: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1050:
1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1052: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1053: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1054: New York Times.
1055: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1056:
1.273 deraadt 1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1058: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1059: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1060: ABC News.
1061: </strong></font>
1062:
1063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1064: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1065: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1066: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1067: </strong></font>
1068:
1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1070: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1071: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1072: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1073: </strong></font>
1074:
1075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1076: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1077: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1078: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1079: </strong></font>
1080:
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1082: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1083: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1084: Times Daily, AL.
1085: </strong></font>
1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1088: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1089: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1090: Boston.com, MA.
1091: </strong></font>
1092:
1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1094: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1095: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1096: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1097: </strong></font>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1100: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1101: [Article was pulled]</a>
1102: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1103: </strong></font>
1104:
1105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1106: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1107: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1108: Infoshop News.
1109: </strong></font>
1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1112: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1113: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1114: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1115: </strong></font>
1116:
1117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1118: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1119: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1120: Raleigh News, NC.
1121: </strong></font>
1122:
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1124: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1125: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1126: Napa News, CA.
1127: </strong></font>
1128:
1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1130: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1131: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1132: NEPA News, PA.
1133: </strong></font>
1134:
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1136: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1137: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1138: Wired News.
1139: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1140: <br>
1141: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1142: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1143: [JAPANESE]
1144: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1145: Wired News Japan</a>
1146: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1147:
1.271 deraadt 1148: </ul>
1149: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1150: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1151: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1152: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1153: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1154: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1155: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1156: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1157: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1158: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1159: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1160: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1161: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1162: <p>
1163: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1166: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1167: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1168: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1169: </strong></font>
1170:
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1172: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1173: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1174: Miami Herald, FL.
1175: </strong></font>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1178: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1179: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1180: </strong></font>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1183: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1184: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1185: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1186: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1187:
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1189: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1190: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1191: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1192: ABC News.
1193: </strong></font>
1194:
1.276 deraadt 1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1196: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1197: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1198: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1199: </strong></font>
1200:
1.286 dhartmei 1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1202: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1203: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1204: Wilmington Star, NC.
1205: </strong></font>
1206:
1.300 jose 1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1208: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1209: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1210: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1211: </strong></font>
1212:
1.309 jose 1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1214: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1215: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1216: Globe Technology.
1217: </strong></font>
1218:
1.263 deraadt 1219: </ul>
1.262 beck 1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1223: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1224: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1225: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1226: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1227: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1228: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1229: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1230: <p>
1231:
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1233: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1234: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1235: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1236: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1237: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1238: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1239: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1240: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1241: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1242: and simply restates other press reports.
1243: <p>
1244:
1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1246: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1247: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1248: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1249: </strong></font><br>
1250: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1251: <p>
1252:
1253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1254: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1255: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1256: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1257: </strong></font><br>
1258: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1259: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1260: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1261: <p>
1262:
1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1264: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1265: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1266: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1267: April 17, 2003.
1268: </strong></font><br>
1269: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1270: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1271: Tech Anthems</a>
1272: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1273: 4 so far.
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1277: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1278: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1279: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1280: </strong></font><br>
1281: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1282: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1283: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1284: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1285: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1286: Goes on to say:
1287: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1288: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1289: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1290: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1291: This article is also found online at:
1292: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1294: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1295: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1296: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1297: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1299: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1300: ZDnet</a>,
1301: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1304: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1305: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1306: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1307: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1308: </ul>
1.260 ian 1309: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1310:
1.260 ian 1311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1312: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1313: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1314: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1315: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1316: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1317: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1318: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1319: without notice or justification.
1320: <p>
1321:
1322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1323: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1324: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1325: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1326: </strong></font><br>
1327: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1328: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1329: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1330: effective today, without any warning..."
1331: <p>
1.257 ian 1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1334: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1335: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1336: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1337: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1338: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1339: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1340: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1341: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1342: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1346: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1347: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1348: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1349: </strong></font><br>
1350: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1351: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1352: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1353: quoting two of them:
1354: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1355: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1356: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1357: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1358: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1359: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1360: <p>
1361:
1.255 ian 1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1363: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1364: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1365: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1366: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1367: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1368: <p>
1369:
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1371: [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 1372: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1373: </strong></font><br>
1374: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1378: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1379: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1380: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1381: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1382: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1383: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1384: security experts for more than three decades."
1385: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1386: <p>
1.261 ian 1387:
1.254 drahn 1388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1389: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1390: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1391: </strong></font><br>
1392: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1393: <p>
1394:
1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1396: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1397: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1398: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1399: </strong></font><br>
1400: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1401: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1402: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1403: <p>
1404:
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1406: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1407: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1408: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1409: </strong></font><br>
1410: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1411: from US DARPA.
1412: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1413: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1414: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1415: the BSD license.
1416: <p>
1417: </ul>
1418:
1.251 ian 1419: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1420: <ul>
1421:
1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1423: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1424: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1425: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1426: </strong></font><br>
1427:
1428: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1429: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1430: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1431: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1432: <p>
1433:
1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1435: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1436: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1437: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1438: </strong></font><br>
1439: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1440: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1441: Mentions
1442: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1443: and
1444: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1445: programs.
1446: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1447: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1448: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1449: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1450: <p>
1.325 ian 1451: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1452: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1453:
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1455: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1456: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1457: </strong></font><br>
1458: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1459: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1460: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1461: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1462: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1463: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1464: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1465: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1466: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1467: put into service."
1468: <p>
1469: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1470: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1471: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1472: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1473: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1474: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1475: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1476: computers with security features."
1477: <p>
1.329 ian 1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1480: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1481: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1482: Slate,
1483: March 3, 2003.
1484: </strong></font><br>
1485: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
1486: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1487: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1488: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1489: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1490: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1491: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1492: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1493: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1494: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1495: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1496: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1497: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1498: of more secure open-source solutions like
1499: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1500: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1501: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1502: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1503: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1504: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1505: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1506: the Beltway."
1507: <p>
1.251 ian 1508: </ul>
1509:
1.249 jufi 1510: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1511: <ul>
1512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1513: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1514: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1515: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1516: </strong></font><br>
1517: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1518: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1519: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1520: <p>
1.334 ian 1521:
1522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1523: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1524: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1525: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1526: </strong></font><br>
1527: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1528: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1529: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1530: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1531: "... the hypothetical question ...
1532: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1533: <br>
1534: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1535: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1536: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1537: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1538: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1539: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1540: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1541: support network security.
1542: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1543: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1544: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1545: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1546: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1547: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1548: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1549: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1550: <br>
1551: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1552: <p>
1553:
1.249 jufi 1554: </ul>
1555:
1.246 jufi 1556: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1557: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1558:
1.247 jufi 1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1560: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1561: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1562: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1563: </strong></font><br>
1564: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1565: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1566: <p>
1567:
1.247 jufi 1568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1569: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1570: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1571: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1572: </strong></font><br>
1573: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1574: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1578: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1579: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1580: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1581: </strong></font><br>
1582: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1583: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1584: <p>
1.247 jufi 1585: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1586:
1.244 jufi 1587: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1588: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1589:
1.247 jufi 1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1591: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1592: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1593: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1594: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1595: </strong></font><br>
1596: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1597: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1598: md5 digests.
1599: <p>
1600:
1.247 jufi 1601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1602: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1603: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1604: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1605: </strong></font><br>
1606: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1607: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1608: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1609: right the first time."
1610: <p>
1.247 jufi 1611: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1612:
1613:
1614: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1615: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1616:
1.247 jufi 1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1618: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1619: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1620: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1621: </strong></font><br>
1622: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1623: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1624: part 6</a>.
1625: <p>
1626:
1.247 jufi 1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1628: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1629: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1630: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1631: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1632: </strong></font><br>
1633: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1634: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1635: <p>
1.301 jose 1636:
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1638: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1639: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1640: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1641: </strong></font><br>
1642:
1643: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1644: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1645: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1646: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1647: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1648: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1649: <i>Here's the
1650: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1651: <p>
1.247 jufi 1652: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1653:
1654: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1655: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1656:
1.247 jufi 1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1658: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1659: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1660: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1661: </strong></font><br>
1662: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1663: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1664: <p>
1665:
1.247 jufi 1666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1667: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1668: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1669: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1670: </strong></font><br>
1671: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1672: this time using pf.
1673: <p>
1.247 jufi 1674: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1675:
1676: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1677: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1678:
1.247 jufi 1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1680: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1681: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1682: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1683: </strong></font><br>
1684: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1685: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1686: their rotation.
1687: <p>
1688:
1.247 jufi 1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1690: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1691: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1692: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1693: </strong></font><br>
1694: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1695: <p>
1.247 jufi 1696: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1697:
1.239 jufi 1698: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1699: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1700:
1.247 jufi 1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1702: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1703: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1704: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1705: </strong></font><br>
1706: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1707: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1708: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1709: <p>
1710:
1.247 jufi 1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1712: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1713: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1714: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1715: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1716: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1717: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1718: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1719: <p>
1.247 jufi 1720: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1721:
1.235 lebel 1722: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1723: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1724:
1.239 jufi 1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1727: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1728: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1729: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1730: </strong></font><br>
1731: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1732: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1733: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1734: <p>
1.301 jose 1735:
1.247 jufi 1736: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1737:
1.228 horacio 1738: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1739: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1740:
1.247 jufi 1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1742: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1743: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1744: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1745: </strong></font><br>
1746: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1747: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1748: <p>
1749:
1.247 jufi 1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1751: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1752: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1753: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1754: </strong></font><br>
1755: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1756: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1757: <p>
1758:
1.247 jufi 1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1760: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1761: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1762: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1763: </strong></font><br>
1764: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1765: on the desktop of his parents.
1766: <p>
1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1769: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1770: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1771: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1772: </strong></font><br>
1773: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1774: using IPFilter.
1775:
1776: <p>
1777:
1.247 jufi 1778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1779: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1780: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1781: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1782: </strong></font><br>
1783: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1784: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1785: perspectives of the four OS.
1786: <br>
1787: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1788: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1789: <p>
1790:
1.247 jufi 1791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1792: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1793: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1794: software and security</a>,
1795: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797:
1798: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1799: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1800: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1801: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1802: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1803: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1804: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1805: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1806: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1807: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1808: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1809: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1810: <p>
1.247 jufi 1811: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1812:
1.225 horacio 1813: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1814: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1815:
1.247 jufi 1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1817: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1818: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1819: Interview</a>,
1820: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1821: </strong></font><br>
1822:
1823: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1824: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1825: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1826: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1827: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1828: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1829: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1830: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1831: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1832: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1833: of choice.
1834: <p>
1.247 jufi 1835: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1836:
1837: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1838: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1839:
1.247 jufi 1840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1841: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1842: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1843: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1844: </strong></font><br>
1845:
1846: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1847: <p>
1848:
1.247 jufi 1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1850: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1851: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1852: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1853: </strong></font><br>
1854:
1855: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1856: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1857: <p>
1.247 jufi 1858: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1859:
1.218 horacio 1860: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1861: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1864: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1865: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1866: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1867: </strong></font><br>
1868:
1869: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1870: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1871: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1872: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1873: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1874: subjects. Worth a read.
1875: <p>
1876:
1877:
1.247 jufi 1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1879: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1880: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1881: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1885: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1886: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1887: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1888: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1889: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1890: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1891: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1892: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1893: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1894: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1895: on other operating systems.<br>
1896: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1897: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1898: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1899: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1900: <p>
1901:
1.247 jufi 1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1903: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1904: Operating System 2010</a>,
1905: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1906: </strong></font><br>
1907:
1908: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1909: covering the level of software integration into the core
1910: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1911: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1912: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1913: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1914: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1918: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1919: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1920: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1921: </strong></font><br>
1922:
1923: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1924: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1925: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1926: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1927: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1928: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1929: <p>
1.247 jufi 1930: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1931:
1.210 jufi 1932: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1933: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1936: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1937: Already a Contender</a>,
1938: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1939: </strong></font><br>
1940:
1941: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1942: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1943: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1944: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1945: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1946: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1947: <p>
1948:
1.247 jufi 1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1950: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1951: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1952: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1953: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1954:
1.224 horacio 1955: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1956: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1957: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1958: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1959: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1960: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1961: <p>
1.247 jufi 1962: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1963:
1964: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1965: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1966:
1.247 jufi 1967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1968: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1969: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1970: Division</a>,
1971: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1972: </strong></font><br>
1973:
1974: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1975: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1976: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1977: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1978: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1979: investment</em>.<br>
1980: The implementation details can be seen on their
1981: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1982: <p>
1983:
1.247 jufi 1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1986: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1987: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1988: </strong></font><br>
1989:
1990: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1991: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1992: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1993: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1994: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1995: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1996: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1997: <p>
1998:
1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2000: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2001: Thinking about Security</a>,
2002: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2003: </strong></font><br>
2004:
2005: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2006: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2007: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2008: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2009: to time.<br>
2010: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2011: system and just the most secure system.
2012: <p>
2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2015: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2016: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2017: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2018: </strong></font><br>
2019:
2020: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2021: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2022: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2023: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2024: choice:<br>
2025: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2026: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2027: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2028: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2029: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2030: network security devices and as such must be well
2031: armored."</em><br>
2032: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2033: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2034: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2035: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2036: <br>
2037: Bravo!
2038: <p>
1.247 jufi 2039: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2040:
1.207 ian 2041: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2042: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2043:
1.247 jufi 2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2045: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2046: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2047: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2048:
1.207 ian 2049: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2050: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2051: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2052: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2053: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2054: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2055: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2056: <p>
1.247 jufi 2057: </ul>
1.207 ian 2058:
1.194 jufi 2059: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2060: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2061:
1.247 jufi 2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2063: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2064: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2065: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2066: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2067:
1.240 miod 2068: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2069: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2070: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2071: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2072: <p>
2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2075: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2076: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2077: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2078:
2079: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2080: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2081: <p>
2082:
2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2084: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2085: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2086: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2092: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2093: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2094: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2095: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2096:
1.240 miod 2097: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2098: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2099: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2100: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
2101: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2102: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2103: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2104: <br>
2105: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
2106: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2107: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2108: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2109: <p>
2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2112: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2113: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2114: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2115: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2116:
1.194 jufi 2117: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2118: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2119: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2120: <br>
2121: The new
2122: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2123: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2124: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2125: <p>
1.247 jufi 2126: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2127:
1.190 horacio 2128: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2129: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2130:
1.247 jufi 2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2132:
2133: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2134: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2135:
1.301 jose 2136:
1.191 jufi 2137: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2138: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2139:
2140: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2141: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2142:
1.212 horacio 2143: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2144: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2145: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2146:
1.211 horacio 2147: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2148: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2149: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2152: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2153:
1.247 jufi 2154: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2155: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2156:
1.212 horacio 2157: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2158: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2159: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2160:
2161: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2162: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2163:
2164: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2165: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2166:
1.301 jose 2167: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2168: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2169:
1.191 jufi 2170: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2171: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2172:
2173: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2174: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2175:
1.192 jufi 2176: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2177: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2178: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2179:
1.193 deraadt 2180: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2181: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2182: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2183:
1.247 jufi 2184: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2185: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2188: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2189: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2190:
1.213 horacio 2191: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2192: 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 2193: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2194:
1.190 horacio 2195: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2196: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2197: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2198: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2199: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2200: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2201: <p>
1.190 horacio 2202:
1.247 jufi 2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2204: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2205: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2206: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2207: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2208:
1.195 jufi 2209: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2210: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2211: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2212: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2213: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2214: <p>
2215:
1.247 jufi 2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2217: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2218: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2219: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2220: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2221:
1.191 jufi 2222: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2223: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2224: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2225: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2229: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2230: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2231: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2232:
2233: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2234: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2235: <p>
1.247 jufi 2236: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2237:
1.191 jufi 2238:
1.186 jufi 2239: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2240: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2241:
1.247 jufi 2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2243: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2244: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2245: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2246: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2247:
1.188 jufi 2248: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2249: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2250: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2251: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2252: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2253: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2254: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2255: <p>
2256:
1.301 jose 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2258: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2259: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2260: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2261:
2262: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2263: <p>
1.191 jufi 2264:
1.247 jufi 2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2266: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2267: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2268: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2269: </strong></font><br>
2270:
2271: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2272: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2273: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2274: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2275: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2276: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2277: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2278: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2279: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2280: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2281: familiar?
2282: <p>
1.247 jufi 2283: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2284:
1.178 louis 2285: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2286: <ul>
1.178 louis 2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2289: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2290: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2291: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2292: </strong></font><br>
2293:
2294: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2295: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2296: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2297: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2298: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2299: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2300: <p>
2301:
1.247 jufi 2302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2303: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2304: Open source under the hood</a>,
2305: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2306: </strong></font><br>
2307:
2308: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2309: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2310: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2311: <p>
2312:
1.247 jufi 2313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2314: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2315: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2316: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2317: </strong></font><br>
2318:
2319: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2320: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2321: <p>
1.247 jufi 2322: </ul>
1.179 louis 2323:
1.174 louis 2324:
1.175 louis 2325: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2326: <ul>
1.175 louis 2327:
1.247 jufi 2328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2329: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2330: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2331: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2332: </strong></font><br>
2333:
2334: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2335: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2336: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2337: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2338: <p>
2339:
1.247 jufi 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2341: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2342: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2343: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2344: </strong></font><br>
2345:
2346: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2347: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2348: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2349: <p>
1.247 jufi 2350: </ul>
1.175 louis 2351:
1.176 louis 2352:
1.172 mickey 2353: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2354: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2355:
1.247 jufi 2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2357: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2358: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2359: </strong></font><br>
2360:
2361: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2362: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2363: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2364: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2365: <p>
2366:
1.247 jufi 2367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2368: <a
1.269 deraadt 2369: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2370: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2371: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2372: </strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2375: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2376: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2377: <p>
2378:
1.247 jufi 2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2380: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2381: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2382: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2383: </strong></font><br>
2384:
2385: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2386: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2387: <p>
2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2390: <a
1.269 deraadt 2391: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2392: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2393: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2394: </strong></font><br>
2395:
2396: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2397: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2398: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2399: our own Theo de Raadt.
2400: <p>
2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2403: <a
1.269 deraadt 2404: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2405: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2406: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2407: </strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2410: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2411: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2412: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2413: shut down.]
2414: <p>
2415:
1.247 jufi 2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2417: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2418: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2419: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2420: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2421: </strong></font><br>
2422:
2423: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2424: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2425: <p>
1.247 jufi 2426: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2427:
1.161 louis 2428: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2429: <ul>
1.161 louis 2430:
1.247 jufi 2431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2432: <a
1.269 deraadt 2433: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2434: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2435: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2436: </strong></font><br>
2437:
2438: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2439: by John Wolley
2440: <p>
2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2443: <a
1.269 deraadt 2444: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2445: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2446: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2447: </strong></font><br>
2448:
2449: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2450: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2451: OpenBSD).
2452: <p>
2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2455: <a
1.247 jufi 2456: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2457: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2458: </strong></font><br>
2459:
2460: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2461: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2462: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2463: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2464: and hindsight.
2465: <p>
2466:
1.247 jufi 2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2468: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2469: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2470: </strong></font><br>
2471:
2472: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2473: <p>
2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2476: <a
1.168 provos 2477: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2478: December 7, 2000
2479: </strong></font><br>
2480:
2481: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2482: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2483: us explain.
2484: <p>
2485:
1.247 jufi 2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2487: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2488: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2489: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2490: December 6, 2000
2491: </strong></font><br>
2492:
2493: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2494: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2495: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2496: <p>
2497:
1.247 jufi 2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2499: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2500: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2501: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2505: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2506: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2507: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2508: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2509: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2510: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2511: <p>
2512:
2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2514: <a
1.226 horacio 2515: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2516: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2517: </strong></font><br>
2518:
2519: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2520: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2521: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2522: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2523: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2524: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2525: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2526: <p>
1.162 millert 2527:
1.247 jufi 2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2529: <a
1.161 louis 2530: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2531: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2532: </strong></font><br>
2533:
2534: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2535: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2536: <p>
2537:
1.247 jufi 2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2539: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2540: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2541: </strong></font><br>
2542:
2543: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2544: <p>
2545:
2546:
1.247 jufi 2547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2548: <a
1.226 horacio 2549: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2550: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2551: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2552: </strong></font><br>
2553:
2554: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2555: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2556: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2557: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2558: <p>
1.247 jufi 2559: </ul>
1.169 louis 2560:
1.158 louis 2561: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2562: <ul>
1.147 louis 2563:
1.247 jufi 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2565: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2566: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2567: </strong></font><br>
2568:
2569: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2570: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2571: <p>
2572:
1.247 jufi 2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2574: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2575: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2576: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2577: </strong></font><br>
2578: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2579: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2580: <p>
2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2583: <a
2584: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2585: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2586: </strong></font><br>
2587:
2588: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2589: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2590: <p>
2591:
1.247 jufi 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2593: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2594: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2595: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2596:
1.213 horacio 2597: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2598: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2599: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2600: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2601: <p>
1.215 horacio 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2604: <a
2605: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2606: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2607: </strong></font><br>
2608:
2609: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2610: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2611: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2612: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2613: much of the attitude too).
2614: <p>
1.161 louis 2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2617: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2618: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2619: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2620:
1.157 louis 2621: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2622: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2623: <p>
1.247 jufi 2624: </ul>
1.157 louis 2625:
2626: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2627: <ul>
1.157 louis 2628:
1.247 jufi 2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2630: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2631: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2632: </strong></font><br>
2633:
2634: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2635: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2636: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2637: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2638: <p>
2639:
1.247 jufi 2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2641: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2642: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2643: </strong></font><br>
2644:
2645: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2646: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2647: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2648: it because they love coding...
2649: <p>
2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2652: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2653: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2654: </strong></font><br>
2655:
2656: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2657: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2658: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2659: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2660: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2661: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2662: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2663: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2664: <p>
2665:
1.247 jufi 2666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2667: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2668: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2669: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2670: </strong></font><br>
2671:
2672: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2673: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2674: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2675: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2676: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2677: the pizza.
2678: <p>
2679:
1.247 jufi 2680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2681: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2682: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2683: </strong></font><br>
2684:
2685: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2686: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2687: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2688: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2689: problems.
2690: <p>
2691:
1.247 jufi 2692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2693: <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 2694: </strong></font><br>
2695:
1.222 miod 2696: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2697: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2698: - whether they like it or not.
2699: <p>
2700:
1.247 jufi 2701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2702: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2703: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2707: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2708: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2709: <p>
1.148 aaron 2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2712: <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 2713: </strong></font><br>
2714:
2715: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2716: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2717: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2718: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2719: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2720: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2721: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2722: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2723: <p>
2724:
1.247 jufi 2725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2726: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2727: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2728: </strong></font><br>
2729:
2730: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2731: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2732: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2733: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2734: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2735: <p>
1.247 jufi 2736: </ul>
1.147 louis 2737:
1.138 louis 2738: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2739: <ul>
1.138 louis 2740:
1.247 jufi 2741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2742: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2743: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2744: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2745: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2746: </strong></font><br>
2747:
1.227 horacio 2748: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2749: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2750: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2751: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2752: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2753: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2754: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2755: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2756: <p>
2757:
1.247 jufi 2758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2759: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2760: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2761: </strong></font><br>
2762:
2763: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2764: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2765: groups, and even Linux.
2766: <p>
2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2769: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2770: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2771: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2772: </strong></font><br>
2773:
2774: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2775: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2776: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2777: library after installing the OS.
2778: <p>
2779:
1.247 jufi 2780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2781: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2782: Sys Admin, September 2000
2783: </strong></font><br>
2784:
2785: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2786: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2787: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2788: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2789: (<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>,
2790: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2791: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2792: <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 2793: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2794: out of the system.
2795: <p>
2796:
1.247 jufi 2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2798: <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
2799: </strong></font><br>
2800:
2801: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2802: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2803: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2804: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2805: the IP filtering and address translation.
2806: <p>
1.301 jose 2807:
2808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2809: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2810: </strong></font><br>
2811:
2812: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2813: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2814: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2815: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2816: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2817: <p>
1.247 jufi 2818: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2819:
1.131 louis 2820: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2821: <ul>
1.131 louis 2822:
1.247 jufi 2823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2824: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2825: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2826: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2827: </strong></font><br>
2828:
2829: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2830: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2831: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2832: <p>
2833:
1.247 jufi 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2835: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2836: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2837: </strong></font><br>
2838:
2839: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2840: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2841: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2842: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2843: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2844: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2845: note of"</i>.
2846: <p>
2847:
1.247 jufi 2848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2849: <a
1.247 jufi 2850: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2851: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2852: </strong></font><br>
2853:
2854: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2855: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2856: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2857: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2858: <p>
2859:
1.247 jufi 2860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2861: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2862: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2863: </strong></font><br>
2864:
2865: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2866: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2867: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2868: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2869: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2870: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2871: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2872: <p>
2873:
1.247 jufi 2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2875: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2876: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2877: 2000
2878: </strong></font><br>
2879:
2880: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2881: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2882: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2883: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2884: against current industry practices.
2885: <p>
2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2888: <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
2889: </strong></font><br>
2890:
2891: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2892: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2893: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2894: <p>
2895:
1.247 jufi 2896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2897: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2898: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2899: </strong></font><br>
2900:
2901: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2902: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2903: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2904: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2905: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2906: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2907: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2908: <p>
2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2911: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2912: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2913: </strong></font><br>
2914:
2915: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2916: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2917: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2918: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2919: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2920: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2921: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2922: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2923: <p>
1.247 jufi 2924: </ul>
1.131 louis 2925:
1.118 louis 2926: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2927: <ul>
1.118 louis 2928:
1.247 jufi 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2930: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2931: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2932: </strong></font><br>
2933:
2934: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2935: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2936: about time. The article mentions that
2937: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2938: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2939: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2940: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2941: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2942: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2943: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2944: <p>
2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2947: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2948: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2949: </strong></font><br>
2950:
2951: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2952: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2953: of OpenSSH.
2954: <p>
2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2957: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2958: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2959: </strong></font><br>
2960:
2961: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2962: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2963: bridging.
2964: <p>
2965:
1.247 jufi 2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2967: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2968: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2969: </strong></font><br>
2970:
1.121 deraadt 2971: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2972: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2973: <p>
2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2976: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2977: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2981: <p>
2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2984: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2985: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2986: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2987: </strong></font><br>
2988:
1.120 deraadt 2989: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2990: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2991: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2992: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2993: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2994: <p>
2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2997: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2998: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2999: </strong></font><br>
3000:
1.222 miod 3001: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3002: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3003: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3004: protocols and their quirks.
3005: <p>
3006:
1.247 jufi 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3008: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3009: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3010: </strong></font><br>
3011:
3012: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3013: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3014: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3015: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3016: <p>
3017:
1.247 jufi 3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3019: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3020: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3021: </strong></font><br>
3022:
3023: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3024: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3025: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3026: <p>
3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3029: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3030: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3031: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3032: </strong></font><br>
3033:
3034: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3035: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3036: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3037: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3038: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3039: <p>
1.247 jufi 3040: </ul>
1.118 louis 3041:
1.104 louis 3042: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3043: <ul>
1.104 louis 3044:
1.247 jufi 3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3046: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3047: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3048: </strong></font><br>
3049:
3050: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3051: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3052: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3053: be a bit dry.
3054: <p>
3055:
1.247 jufi 3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3057: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3058: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3059: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3060: </strong></font><br>
3061: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3062: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3063: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3064: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3065: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3066: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3067: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3068: <p>
3069:
1.247 jufi 3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3071: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3072: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3073: 2000
1.128 louis 3074: </strong></font><br>
3075:
3076: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3077: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3078: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3079: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3080: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3081: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3082: <p>
3083:
1.247 jufi 3084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3085: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3086: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3087: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3088:
3089: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3090: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3091: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3092: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3093: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3094: <p>
1.110 louis 3095:
1.247 jufi 3096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3097: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3098: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3099: </strong></font><br>
3100:
3101: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3102: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3103: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3104: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3105: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3106: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3107: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3108: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3109: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3110: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3111: <p>
3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3114: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3115: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3116:
3117: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3118: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3119: <p>
1.108 louis 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3122: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3123: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3124: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3125:
3126: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3127: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3128: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3129: <p>
1.106 louis 3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3132: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3133: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3134: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3135:
3136: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3137: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3138: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3139: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.107 louis 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3143: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3144: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3145: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3146:
3147: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3148: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3149: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3150: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3151: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3152: <p>
1.105 louis 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3155: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3156: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3157: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3158:
1.113 naddy 3159: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3160: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3161: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3162: <p>
1.104 louis 3163:
1.247 jufi 3164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3165: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3166: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3167: </strong></font><br>
3168:
3169: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3170: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3171: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3172: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3173: <p>
1.301 jose 3174:
3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3176: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3177: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3178: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3179:
3180: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3181: hardware-supported cryptography.
3182: <p>
1.247 jufi 3183: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3184:
1.85 louis 3185: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3186: <ul>
1.85 louis 3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3189: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3190: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3191: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3192:
3193: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3194: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3195: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3196: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3197: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3198: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3199: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3200: <p>
1.99 louis 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3203: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3204: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3205: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3206:
3207: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3208: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3209: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3210: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3211: <p>
1.100 louis 3212:
1.247 jufi 3213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3214: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3215: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3216: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3217:
3218: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3219: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3220: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3221: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3222: <p>
1.95 louis 3223:
1.247 jufi 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3225: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3226: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3227: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3228:
3229: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3230: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3231: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3232: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3233: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3234: <p>
1.92 louis 3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3237: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3238: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3239: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3240:
3241: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3242: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3243: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3244: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3245: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3246: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3247: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3248: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3249: <p>
1.91 louis 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3252: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3253: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3254: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3255:
3256: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3257: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3258: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3259: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3260: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3261: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3262: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3263: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3264: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3265: <p>
1.90 louis 3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3268: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3269: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3270: </strong></font><br>
3271: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3272: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3273: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3274: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3275: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3276: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3277: <p>
3278:
1.247 jufi 3279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3280: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3281: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3282: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3283:
1.113 naddy 3284: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3285: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3286: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3287: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3288: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3289: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3290: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3291: <p>
1.87 louis 3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3294: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3295: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3296: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3297:
3298: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3299: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3300: <p>
1.85 louis 3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3303: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3304: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3305: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3306:
3307: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3308: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3309: <p>
3310:
3311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3312: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3313: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3314: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3315:
3316: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3317: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3318: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3319: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3320: <p>
1.89 louis 3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3323: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3324: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3325: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3326:
3327: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3328: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3329: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3330: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3331: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3332: </ul>
1.85 louis 3333:
1.78 deraadt 3334: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3335: <ul>
1.74 louis 3336:
1.247 jufi 3337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3338: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3339: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3340: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3341: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3342:
3343: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3344: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3345: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3346: <p>
1.83 louis 3347:
1.247 jufi 3348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3349: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3350: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3351: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3352:
3353: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3354: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3355: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3356: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3357: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3358: <p>
1.93 louis 3359:
1.247 jufi 3360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3361: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3362: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3363: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3364: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3365:
1.83 louis 3366: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3367: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3368: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3369: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3370: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3371: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3372: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3373: <p>
1.82 aaron 3374:
1.247 jufi 3375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3376: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3377: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3378: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3379:
1.83 louis 3380: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3381: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3382: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3383: <p>
1.80 louis 3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3386: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3387: Bad Press</a>,
3388: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3389: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3390:
3391: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3392: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3393: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3394: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3395: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3396: <p>
1.247 jufi 3397: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3398:
3399: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3400: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3403: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3404: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3405: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3406: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3407:
3408: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3409: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3410: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3411: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3412: <p>
1.74 louis 3413:
1.247 jufi 3414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3415: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3416: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3417: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3418:
1.219 horacio 3419: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3420: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3421: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3422: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3423: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3424: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3425: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3426: <p>
1.88 louis 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3429: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3430: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3431: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3432:
3433: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3434: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3435: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3436: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3437: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3438: <p>
1.81 louis 3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3441: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3442: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3443: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3444:
3445: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3446: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3447: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3448: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3449: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3450: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3451: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3452: <p>
1.90 louis 3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3455: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3456: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3457: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3458:
3459: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3460: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3461: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3462: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3463: <p>
1.247 jufi 3464: </ul>
1.71 louis 3465:
1.69 deraadt 3466: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3467: <ul>
1.70 louis 3468:
1.247 jufi 3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3470: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3471: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3472: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3473:
3474: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3475: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3476: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3477: <p>
1.70 louis 3478:
1.247 jufi 3479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3480: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3481: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3482: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3483:
3484: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3485: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3486: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3487: <p>
1.68 louis 3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3490: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3491: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3492: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3493: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3494:
1.111 jufi 3495: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3496: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3497: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3498: "secure by default" installation.
3499: <p>
1.64 louis 3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3502: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3503: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3504: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3505:
1.113 naddy 3506: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3507: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3508: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3509: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3510: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3511: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3512: <p>
1.66 louis 3513:
1.247 jufi 3514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3515: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3516: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3517: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3518:
3519: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3520: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3521: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3522: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3523: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3524: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3525: <p>
1.83 louis 3526:
1.247 jufi 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3528: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3529: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3530: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3531:
3532: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3533: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3534: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3535: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3536: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3537: <p>
1.64 louis 3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3540: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3541: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3542: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3543:
3544: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3545: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3546: <p>
1.301 jose 3547:
3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3549: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3550: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3551: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3552: </strong></font><br>
3553:
3554: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3555: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3556: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3557: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3558: Giving way to
3559: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3560: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3561: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3562: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3563: <p>
1.247 jufi 3564: </ul>
1.65 louis 3565:
1.69 deraadt 3566: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3567: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3568:
1.247 jufi 3569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3570: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3571: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3572: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3573:
3574: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3575: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3576: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3577: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3578: <p>
1.88 louis 3579:
1.247 jufi 3580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3581: <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 3582: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3583:
3584: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3585: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3586: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3587: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3588: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3589: <p>
1.60 louis 3590:
1.247 jufi 3591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3592: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3593: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3594: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3595: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3596:
3597: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3598: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3599: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3600: <p>
1.58 louis 3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3603: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3604: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3605:
3606: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3607: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3608: <p>
1.53 louis 3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3611: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3612: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3613: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3614:
3615: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3616: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3617: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3618: <p>
1.99 louis 3619:
1.247 jufi 3620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3621: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3622: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3623:
3624: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3625: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3626: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3627: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3628: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3631: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3632: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3633: </strong></font><br>
3634:
3635: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3636: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3637: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3638: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3639: <p>
3640:
1.247 jufi 3641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3642: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3643: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3644: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3645:
3646: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3647: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3648: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3649:
1.247 jufi 3650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3651: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3652: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3653:
3654: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3655: in
1.247 jufi 3656: <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 3657: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3658: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3659: <p>
1.53 louis 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3662: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3663: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3664: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3665: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3666:
1.58 louis 3667: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3668: <p>
1.301 jose 3669:
3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3671: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3672: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3673: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3674: Informacyjny, January 2000
3675: </strong></font><br>
3676:
3677: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3678: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3679: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3680: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3681: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3682: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3683: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3684: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3685: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3686: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3687: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3688: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3689: <p>
3690:
3691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3692: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3693: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3694: </strong></font><br>
3695:
3696: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3697: <p>
3698: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3699:
1.69 deraadt 3700: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3701: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3704: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3705: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3706: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3707: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3708:
1.58 louis 3709: Kurt Seifried
3710: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3711: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3712: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3713: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3714:
1.247 jufi 3715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3716: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3717: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3718: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3719:
3720: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3721: <p>
1.96 louis 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3724: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3725: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3726: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3727: </strong></font><br>
3728:
3729: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3730: <p>
3731:
3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3733: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3734: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3735: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3736:
3737: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3738: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3739: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3740: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3741: <p>
1.247 jufi 3742: </ul>
1.86 louis 3743:
1.69 deraadt 3744: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3745: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3746:
1.247 jufi 3747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3748: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3749: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3750: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3751:
3752: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3753: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3754: <p>
1.61 louis 3755:
1.247 jufi 3756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3757: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3758: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3759: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3760: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3761:
3762: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3763: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3764: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3765: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3766: right -- or at least strives to".
3767: <p>
1.48 louis 3768:
1.247 jufi 3769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3770: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3771: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3772: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3773: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3774: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3775: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3776: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3777: <p>
1.61 louis 3778:
1.247 jufi 3779: <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 3780: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3781: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3782:
3783: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3784: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3785: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3786: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3787: <p>
1.46 louis 3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3790: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3791: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3792: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3793:
3794: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3795: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3796: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3797:
1.247 jufi 3798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3799: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3800: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3801: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3802:
3803: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3804: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3805: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3806: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3807: <p>
1.247 jufi 3808: </ul>
1.70 louis 3809:
1.69 deraadt 3810: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3811: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3814: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3815: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3816: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3817: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3818:
3819: Kurt Seifried
3820: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3821: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3822: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3823: <p>
1.44 philen 3824:
1.247 jufi 3825: <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 3826: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3827: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3828:
3829: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3830: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3831:
1.247 jufi 3832: <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 3833: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3834: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3835:
3836: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3837: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <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 3840: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3841: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3842:
3843: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3844: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3845: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3846: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3847: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <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 3850: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3851: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3852:
1.36 louis 3853: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3854: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3855:
1.247 jufi 3856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3857: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3858: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3859: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3860:
3861: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3862: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3863: </ul>
1.38 louis 3864:
1.69 deraadt 3865: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3866: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3867:
1.247 jufi 3868: <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 3869: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3870: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3871:
3872: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3873: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3874: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3875:
1.113 naddy 3876: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3877: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3878: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3879: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3880:
3881: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3882: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3883: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3884: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3885: <blockquote>
3886: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3887: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3888: <br>
3889: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3890: </code>
3891: </blockquote>
3892: <p>
3893:
1.247 jufi 3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3895: <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 3896: <p>
3897:
3898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3899: <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 3900: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3901:
3902: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3903: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3904: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3905: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3908: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3909: Sept. 28, 1999
3910: </strong></font><br>
3911:
3912: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3913: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3914: translating and reprinting articles from
3915: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3916: <p>
3917:
3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3919: <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 3920: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3921:
3922: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3923: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3924: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3925: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3926: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3927: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3928: <p>
1.19 louis 3929:
1.113 naddy 3930: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3931: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3932: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3933:
3934: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3935: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3936: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3937: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3938: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3939: <p>
1.16 louis 3940:
1.247 jufi 3941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3942: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3943: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3944: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3945:
1.57 louis 3946: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3947: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3948: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3949: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3952: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3953: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3954: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3955:
1.113 naddy 3956: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3959: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3960: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3961: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3962:
1.23 louis 3963: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3964: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3965: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3966: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3967: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3968: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3969:
1.247 jufi 3970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3971: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3972: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3973: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3974:
1.199 pvalchev 3975: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3976: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3977: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3978: installation.
1.113 naddy 3979: <p>
1.47 louis 3980:
1.247 jufi 3981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3982: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3983: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3984: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3985:
1.301 jose 3986: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3987: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3988: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3989: </ul>
1.57 louis 3990:
1.69 deraadt 3991: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3992: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3995: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3996: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3997: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3998:
3999: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4000: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4001: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4002: <p>
1.12 louis 4003:
1.247 jufi 4004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4005: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4006: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4007: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4008:
4009: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4010: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4011: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4012: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4013: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4014: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4015: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4016: <p>
1.247 jufi 4017: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4018:
1.69 deraadt 4019: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4020: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4021:
1.247 jufi 4022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4023: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4024: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4025:
4026: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4027: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4028: available."
1.113 naddy 4029: <p>
1.301 jose 4030:
4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4032: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4033: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4034: </strong></font><br>
4035:
4036: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4037: <p>
1.247 jufi 4038: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4039:
1.69 deraadt 4040: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4041: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4042:
1.247 jufi 4043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4044: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4045: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4046:
4047: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4048: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4049: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4050: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4051: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4052: <p>
1.33 louis 4053:
1.247 jufi 4054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4055: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4056: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4057: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4058:
1.113 naddy 4059: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4060: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4061: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4062: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4063: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4064: <p>
1.247 jufi 4065: </ul>
1.57 louis 4066:
1.69 deraadt 4067: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4068: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4069:
1.247 jufi 4070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4071: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4072: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4073: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4074:
4075: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4076: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4077: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4080: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4081: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4082: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4083: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4084:
4085: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4086: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4089: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4090:
1.113 naddy 4091: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4092:
1.247 jufi 4093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4094: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4095: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4096: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4097:
4098: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4099: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4100: </ul>
1.23 louis 4101:
1.69 deraadt 4102: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4103: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4104:
1.247 jufi 4105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4106: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4107: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4108:
4109: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4110: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4111: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4114: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4115: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4116: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4117:
4118: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4119: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4120: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4121: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4122: </ul>
1.57 louis 4123:
1.69 deraadt 4124: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4125: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4128: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4129: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4130: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4131:
4132: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4133: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4134: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4135: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4136: <p>
1.15 louis 4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4139: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4140: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4141: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4142:
4143: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4144: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4145: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4146: columns."
1.113 naddy 4147: <p>
1.247 jufi 4148: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4149:
1.69 deraadt 4150: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4151: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4154: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4155: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4156: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4157:
4158: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4159: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4160:
1.113 naddy 4161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4162: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4163: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4164:
4165: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4166: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4167: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4168: </ul>
1.57 louis 4169:
1.69 deraadt 4170: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4171: <ul>
1.301 jose 4172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4173: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4174: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4175: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4176:
4177: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4178: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4179: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4180: <p>
4181:
4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4183: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4184: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4185: Nov 13, 1998 and
4186: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4187: Datateknik</a>,
4188: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4189:
1.380 saad 4190: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4191: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4192: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4193: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4194: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4195:
1.113 naddy 4196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4197: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4198: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4199: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4200:
1.222 miod 4201: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4202: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4203: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4204: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4205: <p>
1.247 jufi 4206: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4207:
1.69 deraadt 4208: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4209: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4212: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4213: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4214:
1.69 deraadt 4215: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4216: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4217: <p>
1.247 jufi 4218: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4219:
1.69 deraadt 4220: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4221: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4222:
1.247 jufi 4223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4224: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4225: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4226: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4227:
1.383 jcs 4228: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4229: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4230: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4233: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4234: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4235: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4236: <p>
1.247 jufi 4237: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4238:
1.69 deraadt 4239: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4240: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4241:
1.247 jufi 4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4243: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4244: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4245: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4246: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4247: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4248:
4249: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4250: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4251: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4252: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4253: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4254: <p>
1.247 jufi 4255: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4256:
4257: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4258: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4261: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4262: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4263:
1.69 deraadt 4264: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4265: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4266: <p>
1.112 naddy 4267:
1.247 jufi 4268: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4269: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4270:
1.292 camield 4271: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4272: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4273: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.409 ! saad 4274: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.408 2004/10/08 03:06:45 nick Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4275:
4276: </body>
4277: </html>