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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>
1.412 ian 22: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
23: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
24: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
25: Starts with the question:
26: <blockquote>
27: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
28: <br/>
29: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
30: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
31: <br/>
32: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
33: Should we believe them?"
34: </blockquote>
35: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
36: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
37: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
38: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
39: for your mail, web and other online activities.
40: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
41: <p>
42:
43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 44: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
45: Simple Simon</a>,
46: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
47: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
48: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
49: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
50: routing/firewall, and more.
51: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
52: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
53: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
54: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
55: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
56: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
57: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
58: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
59: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
60: </blockquote>
61: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
62: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
63: <p>
64:
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 66: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
67: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 68: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 69: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 70: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
71: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
72: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 73: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 74: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
75: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
76: in spite of it
77: (registration required, but worth it).
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
81: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
82: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
83: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
84: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
85: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
86: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
87: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 88: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 89: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
90: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
91: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
92: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
93: <p>
94:
95: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 96: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
97: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
98: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
99: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
100: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
101: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
102: <blockquote>
103: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
104: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
105: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
106: a lot of analysis.
107: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
108: </blockquote>
109: <p>
110: </ul>
111:
1.400 marco 112: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
113: <ul>
114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 115: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
116: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
117: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
118: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
119: UNIX-like systems.
120: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
121: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
122: <p>
123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.406 nick 124: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature"
125: >Going further to stop hackers</a>
126: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
127: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
128: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
129: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
130: At one point, the article states:
131: <blockquote>
132: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
133: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
134: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
135: </blockquote>
136: And then quotes Theo as saying:
137: <blockquote>
138: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
139: fewer are reading or auditing code."
140: </blockquote>
141: <p>
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
143: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
144: marks its fifth birthday</a>
145: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
146: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
147: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
148: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
149: required).
150: <p>
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 152: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
153: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
154: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
155: </strong></font><br>
156: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
157: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
158: <p>
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 160: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
161: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 162: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 163: </strong></font><br>
164: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
165: <p>
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 167: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
168: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 169: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 170: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 171: 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 172: <p>
173: </ul>
174:
1.396 henning 175: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
176: <ul>
177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 178: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 179: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
180: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
181: </strong></font><br>
182: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
183: <p>
184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 185: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 186: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
187: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
188: </strong></font><br>
189: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
190: <p>
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 192: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
193: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
194: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
195: </strong></font><br>
196: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
197: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
198: <p>
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 200: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
201: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
202: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
203: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
204: <p>
205: </ul>
206:
1.405 jolan 207: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
208: <ul>
209: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
210: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
211: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
212: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
213: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
214: details on how funds are dispersed.
215: <p>
216: </ul>
217:
1.393 david 218: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
219: <ul>
220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 221: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
222: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
223: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
224: </strong></font><br>
225: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
226: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
227: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
228: on inserting large number of SQL records.
229: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
230: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
231: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 235: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
236: Secure by Default</a>,
237: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
238: </strong></font><br>
239: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
240: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
244: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
245: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
246: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
247: </strong></font><br>
248: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
249: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
250: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
251: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
252: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
253: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
257: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
258: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
259: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
260: </strong></font><br>
261: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
262: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
263: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
267: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
268: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
269: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
270: </strong></font><br>
271: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
272: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
273: <p>
274: </ul>
275:
1.388 mcbride 276: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
277: <ul>
1.394 jolan 278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
280: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
281: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
282: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
283: </strong></font><br>
284: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
285: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
286: available for sparc64.
287: <p>
288:
1.390 beck 289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 290: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
291: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
292: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
293: </strong></font><br>
294: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
295: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
296: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
297: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
298: <p>
299:
300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 301: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
302: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 303: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 304: </strong></font><br>
305: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
306: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
307: it does: CARP provides sharing
308: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
309: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
310: detail to get you started using it.
311: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
312: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
313: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
314: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
315: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
316: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
317: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 318: <p>
1.391 ian 319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 321: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 322: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
323: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 324: </strong></font><br>
325: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 326: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 327: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 328: <p>
1.388 mcbride 329:
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
331: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
332: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 333: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 334: </strong></font><br>
335: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
336: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
337: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
338: unencumbered by patents.
339: <p>
340: </ul>
341:
1.378 henning 342: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
343: <ul>
1.384 jose 344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 346: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
347: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
348: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
349: </strong></font><br>
350: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
351: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
352: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
353: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
354: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
355: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
356: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
357: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
358: in the page tables."
359: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 363: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
364: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
365: </strong></font><br>
366: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
367: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
368: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
369: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 370: <p>
1.384 jose 371:
1.378 henning 372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 373: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
374: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 375: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
376: </strong></font><br>
377: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
378: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
379: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
380: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
381: (quote:
382: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
383: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 384: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 385: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
386: the other developers for their work on the system.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 390: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
391: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
392: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 393: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 394: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
395: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
396: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
397: too.
398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 401: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
402: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 403: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 404: OpenBSD source code using
405: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
406: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
407: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
408: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
409: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
410: <p>
411: </ul>
412:
1.374 jose 413: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
414: <ul>
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 416: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 417: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
418: </strong></font><br>
419: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
420: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
421: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
422: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
423: it."
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 427: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
428: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
429: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
430: </strong></font><br/>
431: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
432: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
433: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
434: <p>
435: </ul>
436:
1.369 ian 437: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
438: <ul>
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 440: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
441: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
442: </strong></font><br/>
443: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
444: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
445: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
446: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 450: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
451: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
452: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
453: </strong></font><br/>
454: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
455: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
456: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
457: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
458: form factor.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
463: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
464: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
465: Features</a>,
466: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
467: </strong></font><br/>
468: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
469: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
470: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
471: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
472: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
473: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
474: <p>
475: This article can also be found online at:
476: <ul>
477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 478: <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 479: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
480: </strong></font>
481: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
482: </ul>
483: <p>
1.392 david 484:
1.371 jose 485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 486: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
487: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 488: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
489: </strong></font><br/>
490: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
491: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
492: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 493: <p>
1.371 jose 494:
495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 496: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 497: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 498: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 499: </strong></font><br/>
500: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
501: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
502: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
503: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
504: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
505: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
506: and its history with OpenBSD.
507: </ul>
508:
1.368 henning 509: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
510: <ul>
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 512: [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 513: </strong></font><br>
514: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
515: </ul>
516:
1.364 jose 517: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
518: <ul>
519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 520: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
521: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
522: UNIX Review,
523: July, 2003.
524: </strong></font><br>
525: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
526: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
527: who want more information.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 531: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
532: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
533: Government Computer News,
534: July 22, 2003.
535: </strong></font><br>
536: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
537: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
538: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
539: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
540: <p>
541:
542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
543: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
544: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
545: SANS Institute,
546: July 22, 2003.
547: </strong></font><br>
548: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 549: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 550: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
551: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
552: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
553: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
554: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
555: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
556: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
557: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
558: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
559: <p>
560:
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
563: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
564: OnLamp.com,
565: July 17, 2003.
566: </strong></font><br>
567: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
568: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
569: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
570: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
571: have been working on.
572:
573: </ul>
574:
1.356 jose 575: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 576: <ul>
577:
578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 579: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
580: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
581: UNIX Review,
582: June, 2003.
583: </strong></font><br>
584: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
585: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
586: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
587: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 591: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
592: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
593: eWeek,
594: June 23, 2003.
595: </strong></font><br>
596: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
597: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
598: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
599: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
600: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
601: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 605: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
606: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
607: Software Development Online,
608: June, 2003.
609: </strong></font><br>
610: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
611: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
612: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
613: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
614: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
615: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
616: current activities.
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 620: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
621: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 622: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
623: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
624: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
625: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 ! deraadt 626: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 627: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
628: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
629: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 630: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 631: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
632: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 ! deraadt 633: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 634: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
635: decisions.
636: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
637: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 ! deraadt 638: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 639: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 643: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
644: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
645: Page 58, eWeek,
646: June 2, 2003.
647: </strong></font><br>
648: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
649: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
650: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
651: been addressed in -current.
652: <p>
653:
1.356 jose 654: </ul>
655:
656: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
657: <ul>
658:
1.355 jose 659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 660: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
661: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
662: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
663: </strong></font><br>
664: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
665: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
666: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
667: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
668: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
669: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
670: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
671: <p>
672:
673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 674: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
675: Beyond Linux</a>,
676: InfoWorld,
677: May 23, 2003.
678: </strong></font><br>
679: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
680: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
681: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
682: compared to the GPL.
683: <p>
684:
685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 686: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
687: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
688: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 689: May 17, 2003.
690: </strong></font><br>
691: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
692: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
693: the business section and half of another page inside
694: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
695: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
696: in talking about the project's history and goals.
697: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
698: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
699: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
700: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 701: <br>
702: This article can also be found online at:
703: <ul>
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
705: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
706: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
707: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
708: May 17, 2003
709: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 710: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
712: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
713: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
714: Montreal Gazette,
715: May 21, 2003
716: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 717: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 718: <p>
1.346 ian 719:
720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 721: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 722: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 723: May 7, 2003.
724: </strong></font><br>
725: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
726: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
727: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
728: <p>
729:
730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 731: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
732: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
733: OsOpinion,
734: May 6, 2003.
735: </strong></font><br>
736: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
737: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
738: <br>
739: This article can also be found online at:
740: <ul>
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
742: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
743: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
744: NewsFactor Network.
745: </strong></font>
746: </ul>
747: <p>
748:
749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 750: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 751: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
752: ITBusiness,
753: May 2, 2003.
754: </strong></font><br>
755: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
756: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
757: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
758: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
759: <p>
760:
761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 762: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
763: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
764: InfoWorld,
765: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 766: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 767: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
768: <br>
769: This article can also be found online at:
770: <ul>
771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
772: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
773: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
774: IDG Singapore.
775: </strong></font>
776: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 777: <p>
778:
1.339 jose 779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
780: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
781: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 782: ZDNet,
783: May 1, 2003.
784: </strong></font><br>
785: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 786: someone using parts from previous articles.
787: <br>
1.341 deraadt 788: This article can also be found online at:
789: <ul>
790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
791: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
792: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
793: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 794: </strong></font>
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
796: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
797: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
798: CNET News.com.
799: </strong></font>
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
801: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
802: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
803: ZDNet UK.
804: </strong></font>
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
806: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
807: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
808: Help Net Security, Croatia.
809: </strong></font>
810: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 811: <p>
1.339 jose 812:
1.341 deraadt 813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 814: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 815: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
816: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
817: May 1, 2003.
818: </strong></font><br>
819: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
820: that have been added
821: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
822: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
823: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 824: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 825: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
826: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
827: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 828: <p>
829:
830: </ul>
831:
1.253 ian 832: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
833: <ul>
1.255 ian 834:
1.260 ian 835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 836: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 837: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
838: TechRepublic,
839: April 28, 2003.
840: </strong></font><br>
841: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
842: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 843: work.<br>
844: Can also be found online at:
845: <ul>
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
847: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
848: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
849: ZDNet UK.
850: </strong></font>
851: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 852: <p>
853:
854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 855: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
856: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
857: IDG,
858: April 24, 2003.
859: </strong></font><br>
860: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
861: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
862: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
863: Can also be found online at:
864: <ul>
865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
866: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
867: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 868: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 869: </strong></font>
870: </ul>
871: <p>
872:
873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
874: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 875: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 876: Slate,
877: April 24, 2003.
878: </strong></font><br>
879: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
880: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
881: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
882: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
883: <p>
884:
885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 886: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
887: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
888: April 24, 2003.
889: </strong></font><br>
890: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
891: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
892: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
893: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
894: <p>
895:
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 897: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
898: April 24, 2003.
899: </strong></font><br>
900: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
901: the free software community".
902: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
903: other articles.
904: <p>
905:
906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 907: <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 908: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
909: </strong></font><br>
910: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
911: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
912: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
913: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
914: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
915: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
916: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 ! deraadt 917: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 918: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
919: <br/>
920: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
921: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
922: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
923: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 924: <br>
925: Can also be found online at:
926: <ul>
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
928: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
929: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
930: Common Dreams NewsCenter
931: </strong></font>
932: </ul>
1.324 ian 933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
936: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
937: Wired, April 24, 2003.
938: </strong></font><br>
939: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
940: article above.
941: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
942: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
943: wasting them."
1.332 ian 944: <br>
945: Can also be found online at:
946: <ul>
947: <li>
948: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
949: </strong></font>
950: </ul>
1.324 ian 951: <p>
952:
953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 954: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
955: </strong></font><br>
956: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
957: <p>
958:
959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 960: <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.
961: </strong></font><br>
962: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
963: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 967: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
968: April 23, 2003.
969: </strong></font><br>
970: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
971: <p>
972:
973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 974: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 975: April 22, 2003.
976: </strong></font><br>
977: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
978: <p>
979:
980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 981: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
982: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
983: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 984: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 985: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
986: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
987: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
988: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
989: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
990: Can also be found online at:
991: <ul>
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
993: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 994: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
995: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 996: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
998: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 999: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1000: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1001: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1002: </ul>
1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1006: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1007: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1008: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1009: </strong></font><br>
1010: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1011: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1012: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1013: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1014: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1015: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1016: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1020: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1021: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1022: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1023: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1024: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1025: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1026: at UPenn and DARPA.
1027: <p>
1028:
1029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1030: [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,
1031: France
1.315 deraadt 1032: April 18, 2003.
1033: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1034: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1035: <p>
1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1038: [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 1039: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1040: </strong></font><br>
1041: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1045: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1046: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1047: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1048: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1049: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1050: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1051: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1052: <p>
1053:
1054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1055: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1056: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1057: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1058: </strong></font><br>
1059: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1060: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1061: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1062: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1066: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1067: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1068: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1069: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1070: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1071: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1072: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1073: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1074: Can also be found online at:
1075: <ul>
1076: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1077: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1078: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1079: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1080: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1084: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1085: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1086: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1087: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1088: </strong></font><br>
1089: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1090: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1091: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1092: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1093: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1094:
1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1096: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1097: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1098: New York Times.
1099: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1100:
1.273 deraadt 1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1102: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1103: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1104: ABC News.
1105: </strong></font>
1106:
1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1108: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1109: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1110: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1111: </strong></font>
1112:
1113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1114: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1115: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1116: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1117: </strong></font>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1120: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1121: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1122: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1123: </strong></font>
1124:
1125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1126: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1127: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1128: Times Daily, AL.
1129: </strong></font>
1130:
1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1132: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1133: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1134: Boston.com, MA.
1135: </strong></font>
1136:
1137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1138: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1139: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1140: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1141: </strong></font>
1142:
1143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1144: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1145: [Article was pulled]</a>
1146: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1147: </strong></font>
1148:
1149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1150: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1151: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1152: Infoshop News.
1153: </strong></font>
1154:
1155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1156: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1157: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1158: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1159: </strong></font>
1160:
1161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1162: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1163: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1164: Raleigh News, NC.
1165: </strong></font>
1166:
1167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1168: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1169: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1170: Napa News, CA.
1171: </strong></font>
1172:
1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1174: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1175: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1176: NEPA News, PA.
1177: </strong></font>
1178:
1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1180: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1181: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1182: Wired News.
1183: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1184: <br>
1185: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1186: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1187: [JAPANESE]
1188: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1189: Wired News Japan</a>
1190: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1191:
1.271 deraadt 1192: </ul>
1193: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1194: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1195: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1196: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1197: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1198: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1199: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1200: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1201: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1202: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1203: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1204: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1205: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1206: <p>
1207: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1208:
1209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1210: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1211: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1212: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1213: </strong></font>
1214:
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1216: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1217: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1218: Miami Herald, FL.
1219: </strong></font>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1222: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1223: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1224: </strong></font>
1225:
1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1227: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1228: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1229: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1230: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1231:
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1233: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1234: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1235: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1236: ABC News.
1237: </strong></font>
1238:
1.276 deraadt 1239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1240: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1241: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1242: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1243: </strong></font>
1244:
1.286 dhartmei 1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1246: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1247: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1248: Wilmington Star, NC.
1249: </strong></font>
1250:
1.300 jose 1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1252: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1253: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1254: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1255: </strong></font>
1256:
1.309 jose 1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1258: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1259: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1260: Globe Technology.
1261: </strong></font>
1262:
1.263 deraadt 1263: </ul>
1.262 beck 1264: <p>
1265:
1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1267: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1268: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1269: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1270: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1271: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1272: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1273: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1277: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1278: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1279: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1280: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1281: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1282: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1283: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1284: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1285: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1286: and simply restates other press reports.
1287: <p>
1288:
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1290: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1291: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1292: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1293: </strong></font><br>
1294: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1295: <p>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1298: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1299: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1300: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1301: </strong></font><br>
1302: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1303: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1304: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1305: <p>
1306:
1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1308: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1309: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1310: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1311: April 17, 2003.
1312: </strong></font><br>
1313: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1314: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1315: Tech Anthems</a>
1316: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1317: 4 so far.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1321: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1322: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1323: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1324: </strong></font><br>
1325: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1326: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1327: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1328: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1329: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1330: Goes on to say:
1331: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1332: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1333: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1334: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1335: This article is also found online at:
1336: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1338: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1339: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1340: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1341: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1343: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1344: ZDnet</a>,
1345: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1346: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1348: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1349: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1350: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1351: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1352: </ul>
1.260 ian 1353: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1354:
1.260 ian 1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1356: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1357: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1358: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1359: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1360: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1361: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1362: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1363: without notice or justification.
1364: <p>
1365:
1366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1367: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1368: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1369: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1370: </strong></font><br>
1371: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1372: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1373: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1374: effective today, without any warning..."
1375: <p>
1.257 ian 1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1378: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1379: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1380: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1381: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1382: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1383: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1384: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1385: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1386: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1387: <p>
1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1390: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1391: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1392: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1393: </strong></font><br>
1394: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1395: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1396: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1397: quoting two of them:
1398: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1399: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1400: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1401: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1402: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1403: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1404: <p>
1405:
1.255 ian 1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1407: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1408: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1409: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1410: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1411: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1415: [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 1416: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1417: </strong></font><br>
1418: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1419: <p>
1420:
1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1422: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1423: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1424: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1425: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1426: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1427: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1428: security experts for more than three decades."
1429: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1430: <p>
1.261 ian 1431:
1.254 drahn 1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1433: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1434: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1435: </strong></font><br>
1436: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1437: <p>
1438:
1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1440: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1441: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1442: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1443: </strong></font><br>
1444: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1445: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1446: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1447: <p>
1448:
1449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1450: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1451: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1452: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1453: </strong></font><br>
1454: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1455: from US DARPA.
1456: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1457: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1458: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1459: the BSD license.
1460: <p>
1461: </ul>
1462:
1.251 ian 1463: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1464: <ul>
1465:
1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1467: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1468: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1469: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1470: </strong></font><br>
1471:
1472: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1473: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1474: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1475: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1476: <p>
1477:
1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1479: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1480: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1481: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1482: </strong></font><br>
1483: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1484: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1485: Mentions
1486: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1487: and
1488: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1489: programs.
1490: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1491: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1492: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1493: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1494: <p>
1.325 ian 1495: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1496: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1497:
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1499: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1500: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1501: </strong></font><br>
1502: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1503: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1504: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1505: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1506: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1507: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1508: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1509: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1510: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1511: put into service."
1512: <p>
1513: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1514: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1515: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1516: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1517: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1518: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1519: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1520: computers with security features."
1521: <p>
1.329 ian 1522:
1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1524: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1525: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1526: Slate,
1527: March 3, 2003.
1528: </strong></font><br>
1.413 ! deraadt 1529: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1530: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1531: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1532: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1533: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1534: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1535: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1536: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1537: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1538: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1539: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1540: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1541: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1542: of more secure open-source solutions like
1543: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1544: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1545: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1546: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1547: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1548: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1549: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1550: the Beltway."
1551: <p>
1.251 ian 1552: </ul>
1553:
1.249 jufi 1554: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1555: <ul>
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1557: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1558: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1559: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1560: </strong></font><br>
1561: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1562: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1563: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1564: <p>
1.334 ian 1565:
1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1567: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1568: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1569: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1570: </strong></font><br>
1571: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1572: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1573: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1574: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1575: "... the hypothetical question ...
1576: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1577: <br>
1578: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1579: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1580: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1581: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1582: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1583: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1584: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1585: support network security.
1586: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1587: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1588: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1589: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1590: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1591: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1592: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1593: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1594: <br>
1595: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1596: <p>
1597:
1.249 jufi 1598: </ul>
1599:
1.246 jufi 1600: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1601: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1602:
1.247 jufi 1603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1604: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1605: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1606: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1607: </strong></font><br>
1608: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1609: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1610: <p>
1611:
1.247 jufi 1612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1613: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1614: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1615: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1616: </strong></font><br>
1617: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1618: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1619: <p>
1620:
1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1622: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1623: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1624: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1625: </strong></font><br>
1626: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1627: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1628: <p>
1.247 jufi 1629: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1630:
1.244 jufi 1631: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1632: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1633:
1.247 jufi 1634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1635: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1636: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1637: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1638: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1639: </strong></font><br>
1640: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1641: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1642: md5 digests.
1643: <p>
1644:
1.247 jufi 1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1646: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1647: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1648: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1649: </strong></font><br>
1650: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1651: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1652: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1653: right the first time."
1654: <p>
1.247 jufi 1655: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1656:
1657:
1658: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1659: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1662: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1663: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1664: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1665: </strong></font><br>
1666: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1667: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1668: part 6</a>.
1669: <p>
1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1672: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1673: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1674: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1675: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1676: </strong></font><br>
1677: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1678: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1679: <p>
1.301 jose 1680:
1681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1682: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1683: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1684: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1685: </strong></font><br>
1686:
1687: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1688: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1689: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1690: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1691: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1692: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1693: <i>Here's the
1694: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1695: <p>
1.247 jufi 1696: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1697:
1698: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1699: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1700:
1.247 jufi 1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1702: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1703: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1704: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1705: </strong></font><br>
1706: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1707: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1708: <p>
1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1711: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1712: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1713: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1714: </strong></font><br>
1715: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1716: this time using pf.
1717: <p>
1.247 jufi 1718: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1719:
1720: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1721: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1722:
1.247 jufi 1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1724: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1725: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1726: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1727: </strong></font><br>
1728: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1729: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1730: their rotation.
1731: <p>
1732:
1.247 jufi 1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1734: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1735: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1736: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1737: </strong></font><br>
1738: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1739: <p>
1.247 jufi 1740: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1741:
1.239 jufi 1742: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1743: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1744:
1.247 jufi 1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1746: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1747: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1748: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1749: </strong></font><br>
1750: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1751: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1752: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1753: <p>
1754:
1.247 jufi 1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1756: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1757: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1758: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1759: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1760: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1761: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1762: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1763: <p>
1.247 jufi 1764: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1765:
1.235 lebel 1766: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1767: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1768:
1.239 jufi 1769:
1.247 jufi 1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1771: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1772: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1773: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1774: </strong></font><br>
1775: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1776: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1777: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1778: <p>
1.301 jose 1779:
1.247 jufi 1780: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1781:
1.228 horacio 1782: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1783: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1784:
1.247 jufi 1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1786: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1787: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1788: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1789: </strong></font><br>
1790: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1791: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1792: <p>
1793:
1.247 jufi 1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1795: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1796: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1797: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1798: </strong></font><br>
1799: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1800: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1801: <p>
1802:
1.247 jufi 1803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1804: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1805: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1806: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1807: </strong></font><br>
1808: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1809: on the desktop of his parents.
1810: <p>
1811:
1.247 jufi 1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1813: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1814: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1815: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1816: </strong></font><br>
1817: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1818: using IPFilter.
1819:
1820: <p>
1821:
1.247 jufi 1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1823: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1824: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1825: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1826: </strong></font><br>
1827: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1828: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1829: perspectives of the four OS.
1830: <br>
1831: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1832: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1833: <p>
1834:
1.247 jufi 1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1836: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1837: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1838: software and security</a>,
1839: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1840: </strong></font><br>
1841:
1842: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1843: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1844: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1845: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1846: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1847: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1848: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1849: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1850: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1851: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1852: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1853: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1854: <p>
1.247 jufi 1855: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1856:
1.225 horacio 1857: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1858: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1859:
1.247 jufi 1860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1861: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1862: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1863: Interview</a>,
1864: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1865: </strong></font><br>
1866:
1867: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1868: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1869: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1870: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1871: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1872: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1873: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1874: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1875: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1876: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1877: of choice.
1878: <p>
1.247 jufi 1879: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1880:
1881: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1882: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1883:
1.247 jufi 1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1885: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1886: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1887: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1888: </strong></font><br>
1889:
1890: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1891: <p>
1892:
1.247 jufi 1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1894: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1895: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1896: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1897: </strong></font><br>
1898:
1899: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1900: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1901: <p>
1.247 jufi 1902: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1903:
1.218 horacio 1904: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1905: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1908: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1909: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1910: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1911: </strong></font><br>
1912:
1913: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1914: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1915: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1916: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1917: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1918: subjects. Worth a read.
1919: <p>
1920:
1921:
1.247 jufi 1922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1923: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1924: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1925: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1926: </strong></font><br>
1927:
1928: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1929: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1930: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1931: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1932: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1933: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1934: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1935: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1936: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1937: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1938: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1939: on other operating systems.<br>
1940: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1941: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1942: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1943: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1944: <p>
1945:
1.247 jufi 1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1947: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1948: Operating System 2010</a>,
1949: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1950: </strong></font><br>
1951:
1952: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1953: covering the level of software integration into the core
1954: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1955: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1956: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1957: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1958: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1959: <p>
1960:
1.247 jufi 1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1962: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1963: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1964: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1965: </strong></font><br>
1966:
1967: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1968: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1969: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1970: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1971: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1972: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1973: <p>
1.247 jufi 1974: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1975:
1.210 jufi 1976: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1977: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1978:
1.247 jufi 1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1980: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1981: Already a Contender</a>,
1982: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1983: </strong></font><br>
1984:
1985: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1986: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1987: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1988: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1989: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1990: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1991: <p>
1992:
1.247 jufi 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1994: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1995: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1996: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1997: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1998:
1.224 horacio 1999: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2000: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2001: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2002: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2003: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2004: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2005: <p>
1.247 jufi 2006: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2007:
2008: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2009: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2010:
1.247 jufi 2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2012: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2013: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2014: Division</a>,
2015: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2016: </strong></font><br>
2017:
2018: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2019: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2020: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2021: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2022: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2023: investment</em>.<br>
2024: The implementation details can be seen on their
2025: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2026: <p>
2027:
1.247 jufi 2028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2029: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2030: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2031: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2032: </strong></font><br>
2033:
2034: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2035: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2036: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2037: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2038: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2039: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2040: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2041: <p>
2042:
2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2044: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2045: Thinking about Security</a>,
2046: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2047: </strong></font><br>
2048:
2049: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2050: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2051: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2052: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2053: to time.<br>
2054: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2055: system and just the most secure system.
2056: <p>
2057:
1.247 jufi 2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2059: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2060: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2061: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2062: </strong></font><br>
2063:
2064: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2065: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2066: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2067: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2068: choice:<br>
2069: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2070: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2071: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2072: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2073: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2074: network security devices and as such must be well
2075: armored."</em><br>
2076: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2077: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2078: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2079: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2080: <br>
2081: Bravo!
2082: <p>
1.247 jufi 2083: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2084:
1.207 ian 2085: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2086: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2089: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2090: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2091: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2092:
1.207 ian 2093: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2094: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2095: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2096: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2097: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2098: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2099: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2100: <p>
1.247 jufi 2101: </ul>
1.207 ian 2102:
1.194 jufi 2103: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2104: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2105:
1.247 jufi 2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2107: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2108: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2109: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2110: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2111:
1.240 miod 2112: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2113: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2114: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2115: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2116: <p>
2117:
1.247 jufi 2118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2119: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2120: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2121: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2122:
2123: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2124: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2125: <p>
2126:
2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2128: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2129: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2130: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2131:
2132: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2133: <p>
2134:
2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2136: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2137: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2138: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2139: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2140:
1.240 miod 2141: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2142: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2143: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2144: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 ! deraadt 2145: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2146: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2147: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2148: <br>
1.413 ! deraadt 2149: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2150: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2151: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2152: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2153: <p>
2154:
1.247 jufi 2155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2156: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2157: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2158: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2159: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2160:
1.194 jufi 2161: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2162: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2163: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2164: <br>
2165: The new
2166: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2167: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2168: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2169: <p>
1.247 jufi 2170: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2171:
1.190 horacio 2172: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2173: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2176:
2177: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2178: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2179:
1.301 jose 2180:
1.191 jufi 2181: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2182: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2183:
2184: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2185: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2186:
1.212 horacio 2187: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2188: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2189: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2190:
1.211 horacio 2191: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2192: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2193: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2194:
1.247 jufi 2195: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2196: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2197:
1.247 jufi 2198: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2199: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2200:
1.212 horacio 2201: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2202: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2203: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2204:
2205: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2206: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2207:
2208: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2209: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2210:
1.301 jose 2211: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2212: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2213:
1.191 jufi 2214: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2215: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2216:
2217: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2218: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2219:
1.192 jufi 2220: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2221: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2222: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2223:
1.193 deraadt 2224: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2225: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2226: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2227:
1.247 jufi 2228: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2229: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2232: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2233: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2234:
1.213 horacio 2235: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2236: 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 2237: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2238:
1.190 horacio 2239: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2240: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2241: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2242: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2243: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2244: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2245: <p>
1.190 horacio 2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2248: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2249: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2250: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2251: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2252:
1.195 jufi 2253: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2254: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2255: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2256: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2257: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2258: <p>
2259:
1.247 jufi 2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2261: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2262: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2263: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2264: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2265:
1.191 jufi 2266: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2267: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2268: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2269: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2270: <p>
2271:
2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2273: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2274: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2275: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2276:
2277: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2278: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2279: <p>
1.247 jufi 2280: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2281:
1.191 jufi 2282:
1.186 jufi 2283: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2284: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2287: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2288: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2289: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2290: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2291:
1.188 jufi 2292: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2293: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2294: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2295: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2296: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2297: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2298: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2299: <p>
2300:
1.301 jose 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2302: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2303: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2304: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2305:
2306: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2307: <p>
1.191 jufi 2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2310: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2311: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2312: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2313: </strong></font><br>
2314:
2315: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2316: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2317: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2318: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2319: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2320: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2321: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2322: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2323: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2324: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2325: familiar?
2326: <p>
1.247 jufi 2327: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2328:
1.178 louis 2329: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2330: <ul>
1.178 louis 2331:
1.247 jufi 2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2333: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2334: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2335: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2336: </strong></font><br>
2337:
2338: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2339: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2340: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2341: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2342: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2343: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2344: <p>
2345:
1.247 jufi 2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2347: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2348: Open source under the hood</a>,
2349: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2353: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2354: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2355: <p>
2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2358: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2359: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2360: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2361: </strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2364: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2365: <p>
1.247 jufi 2366: </ul>
1.179 louis 2367:
1.174 louis 2368:
1.175 louis 2369: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2370: <ul>
1.175 louis 2371:
1.247 jufi 2372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2373: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2374: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2375: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2376: </strong></font><br>
2377:
2378: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2379: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2380: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2381: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2382: <p>
2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2385: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2386: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2387: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2388: </strong></font><br>
2389:
2390: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2391: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2392: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2393: <p>
1.247 jufi 2394: </ul>
1.175 louis 2395:
1.176 louis 2396:
1.172 mickey 2397: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2398: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2399:
1.247 jufi 2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2401: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2402: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2403: </strong></font><br>
2404:
2405: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2406: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2407: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2408: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2409: <p>
2410:
1.247 jufi 2411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2412: <a
1.269 deraadt 2413: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2414: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2415: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2419: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2420: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2421: <p>
2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2424: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2425: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2426: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
2429: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2430: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2431: <p>
2432:
1.247 jufi 2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2434: <a
1.269 deraadt 2435: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2436: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2437: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2438: </strong></font><br>
2439:
2440: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2441: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2442: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2443: our own Theo de Raadt.
2444: <p>
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2447: <a
1.269 deraadt 2448: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2449: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2450: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2451: </strong></font><br>
2452:
2453: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2454: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2455: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2456: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2457: shut down.]
2458: <p>
2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2461: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2462: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2463: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2464: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2465: </strong></font><br>
2466:
2467: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2468: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2469: <p>
1.247 jufi 2470: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2471:
1.161 louis 2472: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2473: <ul>
1.161 louis 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2476: <a
1.269 deraadt 2477: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2478: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2479: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2480: </strong></font><br>
2481:
2482: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2483: by John Wolley
2484: <p>
2485:
1.247 jufi 2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2487: <a
1.269 deraadt 2488: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2489: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2490: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2491: </strong></font><br>
2492:
2493: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2494: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2495: OpenBSD).
2496: <p>
2497:
1.247 jufi 2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2499: <a
1.247 jufi 2500: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2501: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2505: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2506: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2507: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2508: and hindsight.
2509: <p>
2510:
1.247 jufi 2511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2512: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2513: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2514: </strong></font><br>
2515:
2516: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2517: <p>
2518:
1.247 jufi 2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2520: <a
1.168 provos 2521: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2522: December 7, 2000
2523: </strong></font><br>
2524:
2525: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2526: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2527: us explain.
2528: <p>
2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2531: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2532: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2533: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2534: December 6, 2000
2535: </strong></font><br>
2536:
2537: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2538: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2539: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2540: <p>
2541:
1.247 jufi 2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2543: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2544: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2545: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2549: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2550: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2551: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2552: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2553: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2554: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2555: <p>
2556:
2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2558: <a
1.226 horacio 2559: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2560: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2561: </strong></font><br>
2562:
2563: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2564: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2565: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2566: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2567: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2568: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2569: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2570: <p>
1.162 millert 2571:
1.247 jufi 2572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2573: <a
1.161 louis 2574: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2575: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2576: </strong></font><br>
2577:
2578: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2579: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2580: <p>
2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2583: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2584: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2585: </strong></font><br>
2586:
2587: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2588: <p>
2589:
2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2592: <a
1.226 horacio 2593: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2594: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2595: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2596: </strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2599: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2600: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2601: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2602: <p>
1.247 jufi 2603: </ul>
1.169 louis 2604:
1.158 louis 2605: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2606: <ul>
1.147 louis 2607:
1.247 jufi 2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2609: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2610: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2611: </strong></font><br>
2612:
2613: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2614: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2615: <p>
2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2618: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2619: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2620: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2621: </strong></font><br>
2622: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2623: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2624: <p>
2625:
1.247 jufi 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2627: <a
2628: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2629: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2630: </strong></font><br>
2631:
2632: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2633: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2634: <p>
2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2637: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2638: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2639: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2640:
1.213 horacio 2641: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2642: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2643: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2644: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2645: <p>
1.215 horacio 2646:
1.247 jufi 2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2648: <a
2649: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2650: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2651: </strong></font><br>
2652:
2653: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2654: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2655: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2656: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2657: much of the attitude too).
2658: <p>
1.161 louis 2659:
1.247 jufi 2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2661: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2662: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2663: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2664:
1.157 louis 2665: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2666: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2667: <p>
1.247 jufi 2668: </ul>
1.157 louis 2669:
2670: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2671: <ul>
1.157 louis 2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2674: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2675: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2676: </strong></font><br>
2677:
2678: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2679: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2680: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2681: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2682: <p>
2683:
1.247 jufi 2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2685: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2686: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2687: </strong></font><br>
2688:
2689: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2690: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2691: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2692: it because they love coding...
2693: <p>
2694:
1.247 jufi 2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2696: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2697: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2698: </strong></font><br>
2699:
2700: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2701: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2702: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2703: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2704: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2705: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2706: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2707: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2708: <p>
2709:
1.247 jufi 2710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2711: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2712: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2713: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2714: </strong></font><br>
2715:
2716: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2717: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2718: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2719: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2720: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2721: the pizza.
2722: <p>
2723:
1.247 jufi 2724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2725: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2726: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2727: </strong></font><br>
2728:
2729: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2730: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2731: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2732: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2733: problems.
2734: <p>
2735:
1.247 jufi 2736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2737: <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 2738: </strong></font><br>
2739:
1.222 miod 2740: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2741: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2742: - whether they like it or not.
2743: <p>
2744:
1.247 jufi 2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2746: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2747: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2748: </strong></font><br>
2749:
2750: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2751: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2752: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2753: <p>
1.148 aaron 2754:
1.247 jufi 2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2756: <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 2757: </strong></font><br>
2758:
2759: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2760: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2761: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2762: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2763: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2764: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2765: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2766: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2767: <p>
2768:
1.247 jufi 2769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2770: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2771: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2772: </strong></font><br>
2773:
2774: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2775: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 ! deraadt 2776: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2777: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2778: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2779: <p>
1.247 jufi 2780: </ul>
1.147 louis 2781:
1.138 louis 2782: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2783: <ul>
1.138 louis 2784:
1.247 jufi 2785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2786: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2787: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2788: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2789: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2790: </strong></font><br>
2791:
1.227 horacio 2792: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2793: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2794: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2795: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2796: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2797: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2798: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2799: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2800: <p>
2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2803: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2804: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2805: </strong></font><br>
2806:
2807: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2808: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2809: groups, and even Linux.
2810: <p>
2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2813: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2814: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2815: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2816: </strong></font><br>
2817:
2818: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2819: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2820: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2821: library after installing the OS.
2822: <p>
2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2825: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2826: Sys Admin, September 2000
2827: </strong></font><br>
2828:
2829: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2830: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2831: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2832: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2833: (<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>,
2834: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2835: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2836: <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 2837: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2838: out of the system.
2839: <p>
2840:
1.247 jufi 2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2842: <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
2843: </strong></font><br>
2844:
2845: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 ! deraadt 2846: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 2847: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2848: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2849: the IP filtering and address translation.
2850: <p>
1.301 jose 2851:
2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2853: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2854: </strong></font><br>
2855:
2856: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2857: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2858: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2859: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2860: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2861: <p>
1.247 jufi 2862: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2863:
1.131 louis 2864: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2865: <ul>
1.131 louis 2866:
1.247 jufi 2867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2868: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2869: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2870: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2871: </strong></font><br>
2872:
2873: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2874: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2875: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2876: <p>
2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2879: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2880: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2884: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2885: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2886: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2887: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2888: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2889: note of"</i>.
2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2893: <a
1.247 jufi 2894: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2895: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2896: </strong></font><br>
2897:
2898: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2899: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2900: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2901: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2902: <p>
2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2905: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2906: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2907: </strong></font><br>
2908:
2909: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2910: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2911: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2912: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2913: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2914: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2915: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2916: <p>
2917:
1.247 jufi 2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2919: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2920: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2921: 2000
2922: </strong></font><br>
2923:
2924: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2925: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2926: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2927: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2928: against current industry practices.
2929: <p>
2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2932: <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
2933: </strong></font><br>
2934:
2935: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2936: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2937: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2938: <p>
2939:
1.247 jufi 2940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2941: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2942: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2943: </strong></font><br>
2944:
2945: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2946: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2947: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2948: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2949: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2950: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2951: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2955: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2956: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2957: </strong></font><br>
2958:
2959: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2960: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2961: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2962: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2963: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2964: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2965: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2966: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2967: <p>
1.247 jufi 2968: </ul>
1.131 louis 2969:
1.118 louis 2970: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2971: <ul>
1.118 louis 2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2974: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2975: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2976: </strong></font><br>
2977:
2978: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2979: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2980: about time. The article mentions that
2981: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2982: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2983: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2984: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2985: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2986: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2987: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2988: <p>
2989:
1.247 jufi 2990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2991: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2992: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2993: </strong></font><br>
2994:
2995: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2996: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2997: of OpenSSH.
2998: <p>
2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3001: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3002: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3003: </strong></font><br>
3004:
3005: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3006: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3007: bridging.
3008: <p>
3009:
1.247 jufi 3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3011: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3012: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3013: </strong></font><br>
3014:
1.121 deraadt 3015: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3016: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3017: <p>
3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3020: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3021: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3022: </strong></font><br>
3023:
3024: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3025: <p>
3026:
1.247 jufi 3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3028: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3029: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3030: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3031: </strong></font><br>
3032:
1.120 deraadt 3033: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3034: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3035: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3036: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3037: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3038: <p>
3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3041: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3042: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3043: </strong></font><br>
3044:
1.222 miod 3045: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3046: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3047: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3048: protocols and their quirks.
3049: <p>
3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3052: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3053: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055:
3056: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3057: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3058: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3059: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3060: <p>
3061:
1.247 jufi 3062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3063: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3064: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3065: </strong></font><br>
3066:
3067: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3068: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3069: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3070: <p>
3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3073: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3074: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3075: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3076: </strong></font><br>
3077:
3078: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3079: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3080: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3081: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3082: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3083: <p>
1.247 jufi 3084: </ul>
1.118 louis 3085:
1.104 louis 3086: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3087: <ul>
1.104 louis 3088:
1.247 jufi 3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3090: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3091: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3092: </strong></font><br>
3093:
3094: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3095: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3096: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3097: be a bit dry.
3098: <p>
3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3101: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3102: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3103: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3104: </strong></font><br>
3105: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3106: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3107: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3108: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3109: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3110: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3111: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3112: <p>
3113:
1.247 jufi 3114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3115: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3116: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3117: 2000
1.128 louis 3118: </strong></font><br>
3119:
3120: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3121: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3122: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3123: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3124: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3125: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3126: <p>
3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3129: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3130: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3131: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3132:
3133: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3134: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3135: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3136: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3137: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3138: <p>
1.110 louis 3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3141: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3142: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3143: </strong></font><br>
3144:
3145: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3146: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3147: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3148: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3149: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3150: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3151: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3152: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3153: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3154: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3155: <p>
3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3158: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3159: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3160:
3161: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3162: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3163: <p>
1.108 louis 3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3166: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3167: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3168: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3169:
3170: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3171: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3172: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3173: <p>
1.106 louis 3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3176: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3177: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3178: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3179:
3180: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3181: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3182: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3183: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3184: <p>
1.107 louis 3185:
1.247 jufi 3186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3187: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3188: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3189: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3190:
3191: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3192: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3193: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3194: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3195: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3196: <p>
1.105 louis 3197:
1.247 jufi 3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3199: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3200: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3201: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3202:
1.113 naddy 3203: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3204: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3205: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3206: <p>
1.104 louis 3207:
1.247 jufi 3208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3209: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3210: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3211: </strong></font><br>
3212:
3213: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3214: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3215: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3216: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3217: <p>
1.301 jose 3218:
3219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3220: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3221: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3222: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3223:
3224: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3225: hardware-supported cryptography.
3226: <p>
1.247 jufi 3227: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3228:
1.85 louis 3229: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3230: <ul>
1.85 louis 3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3233: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3234: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3235: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3236:
3237: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3238: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3239: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3240: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3241: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3242: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3243: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3244: <p>
1.99 louis 3245:
1.247 jufi 3246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3247: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3248: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3249: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3250:
3251: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3252: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3253: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3254: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3255: <p>
1.100 louis 3256:
1.247 jufi 3257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3258: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3259: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3260: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3261:
3262: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3263: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3264: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3265: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3266: <p>
1.95 louis 3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3269: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3270: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3271: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3272:
3273: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3274: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3275: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3276: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3277: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3278: <p>
1.92 louis 3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3281: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3282: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3283: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3284:
3285: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3286: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3287: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3288: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3289: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3290: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3291: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3292: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3293: <p>
1.91 louis 3294:
1.247 jufi 3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3296: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3297: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3298: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3299:
3300: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3301: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3302: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3303: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3304: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3305: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3306: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3307: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3308: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3309: <p>
1.90 louis 3310:
1.247 jufi 3311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3312: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3313: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3314: </strong></font><br>
3315: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3316: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3317: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3318: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3319: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3320: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3321: <p>
3322:
1.247 jufi 3323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3324: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3325: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3326: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3327:
1.113 naddy 3328: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3329: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3330: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3331: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3332: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3333: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3334: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3335: <p>
1.87 louis 3336:
1.247 jufi 3337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3338: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3339: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3340: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3341:
3342: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3343: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3344: <p>
1.85 louis 3345:
1.247 jufi 3346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3347: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3348: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3349: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3350:
3351: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3352: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3353: <p>
3354:
3355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3356: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3357: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3358: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3359:
3360: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3361: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3362: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3363: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3364: <p>
1.89 louis 3365:
1.247 jufi 3366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3367: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3368: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3369: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3370:
3371: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3372: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3373: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3374: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3375: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3376: </ul>
1.85 louis 3377:
1.78 deraadt 3378: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3379: <ul>
1.74 louis 3380:
1.247 jufi 3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3382: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3383: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3384: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3386:
3387: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3388: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3389: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3390: <p>
1.83 louis 3391:
1.247 jufi 3392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3393: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3394: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3395: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3396:
3397: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3398: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3399: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3400: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3401: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3402: <p>
1.93 louis 3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3405: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3406: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3407: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3408: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3409:
1.83 louis 3410: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3411: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3412: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3413: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3414: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3415: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3416: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3417: <p>
1.82 aaron 3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3420: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3421: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3422: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3423:
1.83 louis 3424: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3425: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3426: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3427: <p>
1.80 louis 3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3430: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3431: Bad Press</a>,
3432: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3433: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3434:
3435: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3436: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3437: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3438: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3439: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.247 jufi 3441: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3442:
3443: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3444: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3447: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3448: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3449: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3450: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3451:
3452: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3453: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3454: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3455: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3456: <p>
1.74 louis 3457:
1.247 jufi 3458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3459: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3460: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3461: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3462:
1.219 horacio 3463: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3464: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3465: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3466: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3467: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3468: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3469: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3470: <p>
1.88 louis 3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3473: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3474: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3475: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3476:
3477: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3478: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3479: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3480: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3481: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3482: <p>
1.81 louis 3483:
1.247 jufi 3484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3485: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3486: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3487: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3488:
3489: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3490: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3491: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3492: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3493: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3494: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3495: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3496: <p>
1.90 louis 3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3499: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3500: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3501: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3502:
3503: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3504: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3505: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3506: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3507: <p>
1.247 jufi 3508: </ul>
1.71 louis 3509:
1.69 deraadt 3510: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3511: <ul>
1.70 louis 3512:
1.247 jufi 3513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3514: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3515: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3516: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3517:
3518: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3519: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3520: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3521: <p>
1.70 louis 3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3524: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3525: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3526: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3527:
3528: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3529: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3530: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3531: <p>
1.68 louis 3532:
1.247 jufi 3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3534: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3535: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3536: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3537: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3538:
1.111 jufi 3539: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3540: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3541: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3542: "secure by default" installation.
3543: <p>
1.64 louis 3544:
1.247 jufi 3545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3546: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3547: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3548: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3549:
1.113 naddy 3550: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3551: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3552: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3553: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3554: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3555: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3556: <p>
1.66 louis 3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3559: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3560: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3561: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3562:
3563: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3564: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3565: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3566: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3567: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3568: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3569: <p>
1.83 louis 3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3572: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3573: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3574: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3575:
3576: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3577: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3578: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3579: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3580: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3581: <p>
1.64 louis 3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3584: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3585: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3586: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3587:
3588: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3589: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3590: <p>
1.301 jose 3591:
3592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3593: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3594: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3595: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3596: </strong></font><br>
3597:
3598: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3599: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3600: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3601: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3602: Giving way to
3603: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3604: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3605: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3606: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3607: <p>
1.247 jufi 3608: </ul>
1.65 louis 3609:
1.69 deraadt 3610: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3611: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3612:
1.247 jufi 3613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3614: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3615: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3616: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3617:
3618: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3619: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3620: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3621: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3622: <p>
1.88 louis 3623:
1.247 jufi 3624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3625: <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 3626: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3627:
3628: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3629: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3630: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3631: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3632: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3633: <p>
1.60 louis 3634:
1.247 jufi 3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3636: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3637: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3638: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3639: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3640:
3641: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3642: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3643: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3644: <p>
1.58 louis 3645:
1.247 jufi 3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3647: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3648: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3649:
3650: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3651: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3652: <p>
1.53 louis 3653:
1.247 jufi 3654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3655: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3656: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3657: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3658:
3659: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3660: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3661: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3662: <p>
1.99 louis 3663:
1.247 jufi 3664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3665: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3666: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3667:
3668: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3669: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3670: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3671: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3672: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3675: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3676: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3677: </strong></font><br>
3678:
3679: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3680: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3681: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3682: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3683: <p>
3684:
1.247 jufi 3685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3686: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3687: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3688: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3689:
3690: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3691: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3692: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3693:
1.247 jufi 3694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3695: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3696: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3697:
3698: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3699: in
1.247 jufi 3700: <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 3701: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3702: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3703: <p>
1.53 louis 3704:
1.247 jufi 3705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3706: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3707: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3708: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3709: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3710:
1.58 louis 3711: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3712: <p>
1.301 jose 3713:
3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3715: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3716: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3717: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3718: Informacyjny, January 2000
3719: </strong></font><br>
3720:
3721: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3722: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3723: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3724: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3725: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3726: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3727: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3728: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3729: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3730: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3731: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3732: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3733: <p>
3734:
3735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3736: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3737: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3738: </strong></font><br>
3739:
3740: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3741: <p>
3742: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3743:
1.69 deraadt 3744: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3745: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3746:
1.247 jufi 3747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3748: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3749: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3750: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3751: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3752:
1.58 louis 3753: Kurt Seifried
3754: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3755: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3756: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3757: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3758:
1.247 jufi 3759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3760: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3761: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3762: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3763:
3764: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3765: <p>
1.96 louis 3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3768: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3769: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3770: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3771: </strong></font><br>
3772:
3773: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3774: <p>
3775:
3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3777: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3778: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3779: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3780:
3781: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3782: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3783: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3784: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3785: <p>
1.247 jufi 3786: </ul>
1.86 louis 3787:
1.69 deraadt 3788: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3789: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3790:
1.247 jufi 3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3792: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3793: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3794: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3795:
3796: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3797: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3798: <p>
1.61 louis 3799:
1.247 jufi 3800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3801: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3802: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3803: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3804: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3805:
3806: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3807: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3808: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3809: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3810: right -- or at least strives to".
3811: <p>
1.48 louis 3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3814: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3815: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3816: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3817: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3818: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3819: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3820: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3821: <p>
1.61 louis 3822:
1.247 jufi 3823: <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 3824: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3825: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3826:
3827: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3828: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3829: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3830: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3831: <p>
1.46 louis 3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3834: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3835: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3836: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3837:
3838: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3839: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3840: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3843: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3844: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3845: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3846:
3847: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3848: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3849: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3850: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3851: <p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.70 louis 3853:
1.69 deraadt 3854: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3858: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3859: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3860: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3861: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3862:
3863: Kurt Seifried
3864: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3865: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3866: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3867: <p>
1.44 philen 3868:
1.247 jufi 3869: <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 3870: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3871: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3872:
3873: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3874: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3875:
1.247 jufi 3876: <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 3877: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3878: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3879:
3880: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3881: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3882:
1.247 jufi 3883: <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 3884: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3885: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3886:
3887: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3888: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3889: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3890: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3891: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3892:
1.247 jufi 3893: <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 3894: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3895: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3896:
1.36 louis 3897: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3898: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3899:
1.247 jufi 3900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3901: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3902: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3903: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3904:
3905: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3906: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3907: </ul>
1.38 louis 3908:
1.69 deraadt 3909: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3910: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3911:
1.247 jufi 3912: <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 3913: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3914: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3915:
3916: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3917: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3918: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3919:
1.113 naddy 3920: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3921: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3922: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3923: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3924:
3925: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3926: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3927: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3928: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3929: <blockquote>
3930: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3931: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3932: <br>
3933: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3934: </code>
3935: </blockquote>
3936: <p>
3937:
1.247 jufi 3938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3939: <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 3940: <p>
3941:
3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3943: <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 3944: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3945:
3946: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3947: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3948: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3949: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3952: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3953: Sept. 28, 1999
3954: </strong></font><br>
3955:
3956: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3957: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3958: translating and reprinting articles from
3959: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3960: <p>
3961:
3962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3963: <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 3964: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3965:
3966: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3967: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3968: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3969: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3970: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3971: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3972: <p>
1.19 louis 3973:
1.113 naddy 3974: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3975: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3976: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3977:
3978: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3979: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3980: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3981: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3982: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3983: <p>
1.16 louis 3984:
1.247 jufi 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3986: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3987: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3988: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3989:
1.57 louis 3990: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3991: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3992: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3993: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3994:
1.247 jufi 3995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3996: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3997: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3998: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3999:
1.113 naddy 4000: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4003: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4004: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4005: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4006:
1.23 louis 4007: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4008: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4009: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4010: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4011: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4012: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4013:
1.247 jufi 4014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4015: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4016: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4017: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4018:
1.199 pvalchev 4019: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4020: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4021: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4022: installation.
1.113 naddy 4023: <p>
1.47 louis 4024:
1.247 jufi 4025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4026: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4027: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4028: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4029:
1.301 jose 4030: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4031: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4032: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4033: </ul>
1.57 louis 4034:
1.69 deraadt 4035: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4036: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4037:
1.247 jufi 4038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4039: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4040: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4041: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4042:
4043: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4044: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4045: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4046: <p>
1.12 louis 4047:
1.247 jufi 4048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4049: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4050: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4051: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4052:
4053: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4054: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4055: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4056: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4057: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4058: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4059: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4060: <p>
1.247 jufi 4061: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4062:
1.69 deraadt 4063: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4064: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4065:
1.247 jufi 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4067: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4068: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4069:
4070: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4071: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4072: available."
1.113 naddy 4073: <p>
1.301 jose 4074:
4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4076: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4077: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4078: </strong></font><br>
4079:
4080: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4081: <p>
1.247 jufi 4082: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4083:
1.69 deraadt 4084: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4085: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4088: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4089: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4090:
4091: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4092: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4093: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4094: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4095: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4096: <p>
1.33 louis 4097:
1.247 jufi 4098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4099: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4100: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4101: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4102:
1.113 naddy 4103: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4104: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4105: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4106: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4107: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4108: <p>
1.247 jufi 4109: </ul>
1.57 louis 4110:
1.69 deraadt 4111: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4112: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4113:
1.247 jufi 4114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4115: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4116: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4117: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4118:
4119: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4120: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4121: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4122:
1.247 jufi 4123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4124: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4125: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4126: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4127: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4128:
4129: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4130: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4131:
1.247 jufi 4132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4133: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4134:
1.113 naddy 4135: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4138: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4139: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4140: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4141:
4142: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4143: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4144: </ul>
1.23 louis 4145:
1.69 deraadt 4146: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4147: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4148:
1.247 jufi 4149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4150: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4151: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4152:
4153: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4154: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4155: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4156:
1.247 jufi 4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4158: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4159: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4160: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4161:
4162: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4163: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4164: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4165: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4166: </ul>
1.57 louis 4167:
1.69 deraadt 4168: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4169: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4172: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4173: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4174: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4175:
4176: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4177: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4178: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4179: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4180: <p>
1.15 louis 4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4183: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4184: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4185: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4186:
4187: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4188: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4189: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4190: columns."
1.113 naddy 4191: <p>
1.247 jufi 4192: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4193:
1.69 deraadt 4194: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4195: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4196:
1.247 jufi 4197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4198: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4199: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4200: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4201:
4202: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4203: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4204:
1.113 naddy 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4206: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4207: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4208:
4209: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4210: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4211: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4212: </ul>
1.57 louis 4213:
1.69 deraadt 4214: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4215: <ul>
1.301 jose 4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4217: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4218: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4219: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4222: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4223: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4224: <p>
4225:
4226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4227: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4228: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4229: Nov 13, 1998 and
4230: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4231: Datateknik</a>,
4232: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4233:
1.380 saad 4234: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4235: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4236: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4237: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4238: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4239:
1.113 naddy 4240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4241: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4242: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4243: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4244:
1.222 miod 4245: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4246: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4247: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4248: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4249: <p>
1.247 jufi 4250: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4251:
1.69 deraadt 4252: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4253: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4254:
1.247 jufi 4255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4256: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4257: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4258:
1.69 deraadt 4259: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4260: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4261: <p>
1.247 jufi 4262: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4263:
1.69 deraadt 4264: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4265: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4268: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4269: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4270: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4271:
1.383 jcs 4272: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4273: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4274: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4275:
1.247 jufi 4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4277: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4278: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4279: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4280: <p>
1.247 jufi 4281: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4282:
1.69 deraadt 4283: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4284: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4285:
1.247 jufi 4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4287: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4288: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4289: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4290: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4291: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4292:
4293: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4294: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4295: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4296: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4297: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4298: <p>
1.247 jufi 4299: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4300:
4301: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4302: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4305: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4306: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4307:
1.69 deraadt 4308: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4309: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4310: <p>
1.112 naddy 4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4313: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4314:
1.292 camield 4315: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4316: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4317: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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