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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.407 henning 19: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ! ian 22: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
! 23: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
! 24: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
! 25: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
! 26: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
! 27: overflow attacks... because
! 28: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
! 29: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
! 30: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
! 31: and propolice.
! 32: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
! 33: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
! 34: and that's when the science falls apart."
! 35: <p>
! 36:
! 37: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 38: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
39: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
40: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
41: Starts with the question:
42: <blockquote>
43: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
44: <br/>
45: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
46: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
47: <br/>
48: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
49: Should we believe them?"
50: </blockquote>
51: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
52: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
53: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
54: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
55: for your mail, web and other online activities.
56: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 60: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
61: Simple Simon</a>,
62: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
63: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
64: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
65: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
66: routing/firewall, and more.
67: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
68: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
69: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
70: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
71: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
72: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
73: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
74: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
75: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
76: </blockquote>
77: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
78: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 82: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
83: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 84: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 85: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 86: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
87: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
88: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 89: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 90: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
91: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
92: in spite of it
93: (registration required, but worth it).
94: <p>
95:
96: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
97: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
98: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
99: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
100: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
101: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
102: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
103: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 104: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 105: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
106: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
107: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
108: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 112: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
113: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
114: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
115: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
116: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
117: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
118: <blockquote>
119: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
120: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
121: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
122: a lot of analysis.
123: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
124: </blockquote>
125: <p>
126: </ul>
127:
1.400 marco 128: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
129: <ul>
130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 131: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
132: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
133: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
134: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
135: UNIX-like systems.
136: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
137: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
138: <p>
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.406 nick 140: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature"
141: >Going further to stop hackers</a>
142: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
143: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
144: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
145: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
146: At one point, the article states:
147: <blockquote>
148: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
149: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
150: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
151: </blockquote>
152: And then quotes Theo as saying:
153: <blockquote>
154: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
155: fewer are reading or auditing code."
156: </blockquote>
157: <p>
158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
159: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
160: marks its fifth birthday</a>
161: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
162: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
163: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
164: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
165: required).
166: <p>
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 168: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
169: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
170: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
171: </strong></font><br>
172: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
173: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
174: <p>
175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 176: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
177: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 178: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 179: </strong></font><br>
180: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
181: <p>
182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 183: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
184: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 185: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 186: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 187: 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 188: <p>
189: </ul>
190:
1.396 henning 191: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
192: <ul>
193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 194: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 195: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
196: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
197: </strong></font><br>
198: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
199: <p>
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 201: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 202: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
203: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
204: </strong></font><br>
205: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
206: <p>
207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 208: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
209: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
210: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
211: </strong></font><br>
212: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
213: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
214: <p>
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 216: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
217: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
218: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
219: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
220: <p>
221: </ul>
222:
1.405 jolan 223: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
224: <ul>
225: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
226: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
227: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
228: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
229: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
230: details on how funds are dispersed.
231: <p>
232: </ul>
233:
1.393 david 234: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
235: <ul>
236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 237: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
238: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
239: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
240: </strong></font><br>
241: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
242: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
243: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
244: on inserting large number of SQL records.
245: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
246: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
247: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
248: <p>
249:
250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 251: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
252: Secure by Default</a>,
253: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
254: </strong></font><br>
255: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
256: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
260: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
261: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
262: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
263: </strong></font><br>
264: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
265: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
266: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
267: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
268: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
269: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
273: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
274: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
275: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
276: </strong></font><br>
277: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
278: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
279: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
283: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
284: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
285: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
286: </strong></font><br>
287: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
288: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
289: <p>
290: </ul>
291:
1.388 mcbride 292: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
293: <ul>
1.394 jolan 294:
295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
296: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
297: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
298: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
299: </strong></font><br>
300: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
301: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
302: available for sparc64.
303: <p>
304:
1.390 beck 305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
307: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
308: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
309: </strong></font><br>
310: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
311: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
312: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
313: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 317: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
318: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 319: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 320: </strong></font><br>
321: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
322: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
323: it does: CARP provides sharing
324: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
325: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
326: detail to get you started using it.
327: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
328: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
329: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
330: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
331: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
332: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
333: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 334: <p>
1.391 ian 335:
336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 337: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 338: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
339: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 340: </strong></font><br>
341: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 342: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 343: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 344: <p>
1.388 mcbride 345:
346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
347: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
348: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 349: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 350: </strong></font><br>
351: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
352: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
353: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
354: unencumbered by patents.
355: <p>
356: </ul>
357:
1.378 henning 358: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
359: <ul>
1.384 jose 360:
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 362: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
363: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
364: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
365: </strong></font><br>
366: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
367: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
368: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
369: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
370: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
371: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
372: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
373: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
374: in the page tables."
375: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 379: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
380: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
381: </strong></font><br>
382: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
383: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
384: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
385: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 386: <p>
1.384 jose 387:
1.378 henning 388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 389: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
390: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 391: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
392: </strong></font><br>
393: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
394: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
395: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
396: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
397: (quote:
398: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
399: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 400: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 401: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
402: the other developers for their work on the system.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 406: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
407: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
408: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 409: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 410: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
411: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
412: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
413: too.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 417: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
418: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 419: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 420: OpenBSD source code using
421: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
422: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
423: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
424: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
425: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
426: <p>
427: </ul>
428:
1.374 jose 429: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
430: <ul>
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 432: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 433: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
434: </strong></font><br>
435: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
436: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
437: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
438: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
439: it."
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 443: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
444: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
445: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
446: </strong></font><br/>
447: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
448: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
449: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
450: <p>
451: </ul>
452:
1.369 ian 453: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
454: <ul>
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 456: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
457: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
458: </strong></font><br/>
459: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
460: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
461: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
462: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
463: <p>
464:
465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 466: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
467: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
468: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
469: </strong></font><br/>
470: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
471: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
472: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
473: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
474: form factor.
475: <p>
476:
477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
478: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
479: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
480: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
481: Features</a>,
482: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
483: </strong></font><br/>
484: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
485: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
486: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
487: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
488: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
489: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
490: <p>
491: This article can also be found online at:
492: <ul>
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 494: <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 495: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
496: </strong></font>
497: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
498: </ul>
499: <p>
1.392 david 500:
1.371 jose 501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 502: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
503: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 504: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
505: </strong></font><br/>
506: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
507: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
508: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 509: <p>
1.371 jose 510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 512: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 513: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 514: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 515: </strong></font><br/>
516: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
517: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
518: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
519: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
520: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
521: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
522: and its history with OpenBSD.
523: </ul>
524:
1.368 henning 525: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
526: <ul>
527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 528: [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 529: </strong></font><br>
530: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
531: </ul>
532:
1.364 jose 533: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
534: <ul>
535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 536: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
537: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
538: UNIX Review,
539: July, 2003.
540: </strong></font><br>
541: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
542: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
543: who want more information.
544: <p>
545:
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 547: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
548: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
549: Government Computer News,
550: July 22, 2003.
551: </strong></font><br>
552: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
553: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
554: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
555: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
556: <p>
557:
558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
559: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
560: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
561: SANS Institute,
562: July 22, 2003.
563: </strong></font><br>
564: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 565: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 566: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
567: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
568: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
569: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
570: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
571: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
572: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
573: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
574: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
575: <p>
576:
577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 578: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
579: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
580: OnLamp.com,
581: July 17, 2003.
582: </strong></font><br>
583: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
584: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
585: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
586: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
587: have been working on.
588:
589: </ul>
590:
1.356 jose 591: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 592: <ul>
593:
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 595: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
596: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
597: UNIX Review,
598: June, 2003.
599: </strong></font><br>
600: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
601: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
602: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
603: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
604: <p>
605:
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 607: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
608: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
609: eWeek,
610: June 23, 2003.
611: </strong></font><br>
612: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
613: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
614: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
615: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
616: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
617: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
618: <p>
619:
620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 621: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
622: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
623: Software Development Online,
624: June, 2003.
625: </strong></font><br>
626: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
627: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
628: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
629: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
630: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
631: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
632: current activities.
633: <p>
634:
635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 636: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
637: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 638: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
639: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
640: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
641: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 642: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 643: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
644: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
645: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 646: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 647: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
648: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 649: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 650: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
651: decisions.
652: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
653: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 654: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 655: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 659: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
660: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
661: Page 58, eWeek,
662: June 2, 2003.
663: </strong></font><br>
664: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
665: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
666: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
667: been addressed in -current.
668: <p>
669:
1.356 jose 670: </ul>
671:
672: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
673: <ul>
674:
1.355 jose 675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 676: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
677: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
678: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
679: </strong></font><br>
680: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
681: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
682: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
683: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
684: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
685: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
686: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 690: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
691: Beyond Linux</a>,
692: InfoWorld,
693: May 23, 2003.
694: </strong></font><br>
695: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
696: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
697: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
698: compared to the GPL.
699: <p>
700:
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 702: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
703: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
704: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 705: May 17, 2003.
706: </strong></font><br>
707: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
708: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
709: the business section and half of another page inside
710: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
711: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
712: in talking about the project's history and goals.
713: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
714: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
715: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
716: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 717: <br>
718: This article can also be found online at:
719: <ul>
720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
721: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
722: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
723: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
724: May 17, 2003
725: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 726: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
728: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
729: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
730: Montreal Gazette,
731: May 21, 2003
732: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 733: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 734: <p>
1.346 ian 735:
736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 737: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 738: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 739: May 7, 2003.
740: </strong></font><br>
741: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
742: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
743: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
744: <p>
745:
746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 747: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
748: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
749: OsOpinion,
750: May 6, 2003.
751: </strong></font><br>
752: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
753: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
754: <br>
755: This article can also be found online at:
756: <ul>
757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
758: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
759: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
760: NewsFactor Network.
761: </strong></font>
762: </ul>
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 766: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 767: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
768: ITBusiness,
769: May 2, 2003.
770: </strong></font><br>
771: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
772: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
773: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
774: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 778: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
779: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
780: InfoWorld,
781: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 782: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 783: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
784: <br>
785: This article can also be found online at:
786: <ul>
787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
788: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
789: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
790: IDG Singapore.
791: </strong></font>
792: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 793: <p>
794:
1.339 jose 795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
796: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
797: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 798: ZDNet,
799: May 1, 2003.
800: </strong></font><br>
801: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 802: someone using parts from previous articles.
803: <br>
1.341 deraadt 804: This article can also be found online at:
805: <ul>
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
807: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
808: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
809: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 810: </strong></font>
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
812: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
813: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
814: CNET News.com.
815: </strong></font>
816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
817: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
818: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
819: ZDNet UK.
820: </strong></font>
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
822: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
823: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
824: Help Net Security, Croatia.
825: </strong></font>
826: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 827: <p>
1.339 jose 828:
1.341 deraadt 829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 830: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 831: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
832: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
833: May 1, 2003.
834: </strong></font><br>
835: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
836: that have been added
837: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
838: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
839: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 840: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 841: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
842: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
843: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 844: <p>
845:
846: </ul>
847:
1.253 ian 848: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
849: <ul>
1.255 ian 850:
1.260 ian 851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 852: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 853: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
854: TechRepublic,
855: April 28, 2003.
856: </strong></font><br>
857: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
858: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 859: work.<br>
860: Can also be found online at:
861: <ul>
862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
863: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
864: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
865: ZDNet UK.
866: </strong></font>
867: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 871: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
872: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
873: IDG,
874: April 24, 2003.
875: </strong></font><br>
876: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
877: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
878: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
879: Can also be found online at:
880: <ul>
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
882: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
883: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 884: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 885: </strong></font>
886: </ul>
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
890: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 891: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 892: Slate,
893: April 24, 2003.
894: </strong></font><br>
895: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
896: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
897: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
898: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
899: <p>
900:
901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 902: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
903: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
904: April 24, 2003.
905: </strong></font><br>
906: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
907: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
908: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
909: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 913: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
914: April 24, 2003.
915: </strong></font><br>
916: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
917: the free software community".
918: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
919: other articles.
920: <p>
921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 923: <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 924: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
925: </strong></font><br>
926: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
927: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
928: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
929: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
930: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
931: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
932: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 933: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 934: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
935: <br/>
936: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
937: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
938: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
939: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 940: <br>
941: Can also be found online at:
942: <ul>
943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
944: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
945: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
946: Common Dreams NewsCenter
947: </strong></font>
948: </ul>
1.324 ian 949: <p>
950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
952: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
953: Wired, April 24, 2003.
954: </strong></font><br>
955: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
956: article above.
957: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
958: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
959: wasting them."
1.332 ian 960: <br>
961: Can also be found online at:
962: <ul>
963: <li>
964: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
965: </strong></font>
966: </ul>
1.324 ian 967: <p>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 970: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
971: </strong></font><br>
972: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
973: <p>
974:
975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 976: <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.
977: </strong></font><br>
978: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
979: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 983: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
984: April 23, 2003.
985: </strong></font><br>
986: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
987: <p>
988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 990: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 991: April 22, 2003.
992: </strong></font><br>
993: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 997: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
998: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
999: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1000: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1001: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1002: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1003: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1004: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1005: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1006: Can also be found online at:
1007: <ul>
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1010: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1011: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1012: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1014: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1015: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1016: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1017: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1018: </ul>
1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1022: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1023: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1024: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1025: </strong></font><br>
1026: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1027: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1028: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1029: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1030: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1031: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1032: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1033: <p>
1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1036: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1037: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1038: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1039: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1040: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1041: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1042: at UPenn and DARPA.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1046: [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,
1047: France
1.315 deraadt 1048: April 18, 2003.
1049: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1050: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1051: <p>
1052:
1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1054: [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 1055: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1056: </strong></font><br>
1057: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1061: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1062: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1063: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1064: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1065: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1066: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1067: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1068: <p>
1069:
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1071: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1072: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1073: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1074: </strong></font><br>
1075: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1076: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1077: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1078: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1079: <p>
1080:
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1082: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1083: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1084: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1085: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1086: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1087: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1088: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1089: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1090: Can also be found online at:
1091: <ul>
1092: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1093: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1094: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1095: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1096: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1097: <p>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1100: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1101: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1102: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1103: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1104: </strong></font><br>
1105: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1106: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1107: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1108: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1109: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1112: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1113: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1114: New York Times.
1115: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1116:
1.273 deraadt 1117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1118: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1119: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1120: ABC News.
1121: </strong></font>
1122:
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1124: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1125: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1126: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1127: </strong></font>
1128:
1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1130: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1131: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1132: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1133: </strong></font>
1134:
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1136: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1137: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1138: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1139: </strong></font>
1140:
1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1142: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1143: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1144: Times Daily, AL.
1145: </strong></font>
1146:
1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1148: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1149: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1150: Boston.com, MA.
1151: </strong></font>
1152:
1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1155: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1156: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1157: </strong></font>
1158:
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1160: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1161: [Article was pulled]</a>
1162: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1163: </strong></font>
1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1166: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1167: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1168: Infoshop News.
1169: </strong></font>
1170:
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1172: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1173: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1174: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1175: </strong></font>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1178: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1179: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1180: Raleigh News, NC.
1181: </strong></font>
1182:
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1184: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1185: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1186: Napa News, CA.
1187: </strong></font>
1188:
1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1190: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1191: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1192: NEPA News, PA.
1193: </strong></font>
1194:
1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1196: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1197: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1198: Wired News.
1199: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1200: <br>
1201: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1202: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1203: [JAPANESE]
1204: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1205: Wired News Japan</a>
1206: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1207:
1.271 deraadt 1208: </ul>
1209: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1210: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1211: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1212: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1213: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1214: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1215: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1216: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1217: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1218: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1219: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1220: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1221: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1222: <p>
1223: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1226: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1227: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1228: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1229: </strong></font>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1232: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1233: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1234: Miami Herald, FL.
1235: </strong></font>
1236:
1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1238: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1239: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1240: </strong></font>
1241:
1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1243: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1244: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1245: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1246: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1247:
1248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1249: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1250: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1251: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1252: ABC News.
1253: </strong></font>
1254:
1.276 deraadt 1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1256: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1257: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1258: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1259: </strong></font>
1260:
1.286 dhartmei 1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1262: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1263: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1264: Wilmington Star, NC.
1265: </strong></font>
1266:
1.300 jose 1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1268: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1269: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1270: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1271: </strong></font>
1272:
1.309 jose 1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1274: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1275: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1276: Globe Technology.
1277: </strong></font>
1278:
1.263 deraadt 1279: </ul>
1.262 beck 1280: <p>
1281:
1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1283: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1284: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1285: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1286: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1287: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1288: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1289: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1290: <p>
1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1293: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1294: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1295: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1296: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1297: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1298: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1299: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1300: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1301: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1302: and simply restates other press reports.
1303: <p>
1304:
1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1306: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1307: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1308: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1309: </strong></font><br>
1310: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1311: <p>
1312:
1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1314: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1315: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1316: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1317: </strong></font><br>
1318: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1319: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1320: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1321: <p>
1322:
1323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1324: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1325: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1326: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1327: April 17, 2003.
1328: </strong></font><br>
1329: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1330: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1331: Tech Anthems</a>
1332: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1333: 4 so far.
1334: <p>
1335:
1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1337: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1338: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1339: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1340: </strong></font><br>
1341: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1342: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1343: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1344: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1345: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1346: Goes on to say:
1347: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1348: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1349: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1350: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1351: This article is also found online at:
1352: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1354: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1355: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1356: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1357: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1359: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1360: ZDnet</a>,
1361: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1362: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1364: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1365: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1366: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1367: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1368: </ul>
1.260 ian 1369: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1370:
1.260 ian 1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1372: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1373: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1374: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1375: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1376: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1377: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1378: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1379: without notice or justification.
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1383: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1384: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1385: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1388: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1389: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1390: effective today, without any warning..."
1391: <p>
1.257 ian 1392:
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1394: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1395: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1396: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1397: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1398: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1399: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1400: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1401: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1402: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1403: <p>
1404:
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1406: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1407: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1408: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1409: </strong></font><br>
1410: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1411: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1412: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1413: quoting two of them:
1414: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1415: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1416: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1417: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1418: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1419: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1420: <p>
1421:
1.255 ian 1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1423: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1424: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1425: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1426: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1427: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1428: <p>
1429:
1430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1431: [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 1432: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1433: </strong></font><br>
1434: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1435: <p>
1436:
1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1438: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1439: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1440: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1441: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1442: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1443: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1444: security experts for more than three decades."
1445: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1446: <p>
1.261 ian 1447:
1.254 drahn 1448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1449: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1450: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1451: </strong></font><br>
1452: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1453: <p>
1454:
1455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1456: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1457: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1458: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1459: </strong></font><br>
1460: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1461: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1462: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1466: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1467: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1468: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1469: </strong></font><br>
1470: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1471: from US DARPA.
1472: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1473: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1474: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1475: the BSD license.
1476: <p>
1477: </ul>
1478:
1.251 ian 1479: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1480: <ul>
1481:
1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1483: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1484: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1485: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1486: </strong></font><br>
1487:
1488: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1489: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1490: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1491: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1492: <p>
1493:
1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1495: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1496: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1497: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1498: </strong></font><br>
1499: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1500: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1501: Mentions
1502: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1503: and
1504: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1505: programs.
1506: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1507: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1508: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1509: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1510: <p>
1.325 ian 1511: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1512: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1513:
1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1515: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1516: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1517: </strong></font><br>
1518: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1519: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1520: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1521: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1522: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1523: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1524: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1525: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1526: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1527: put into service."
1528: <p>
1529: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1530: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1531: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1532: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1533: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1534: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1535: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1536: computers with security features."
1537: <p>
1.329 ian 1538:
1539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1540: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1541: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1542: Slate,
1543: March 3, 2003.
1544: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1545: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1546: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1547: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1548: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1549: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1550: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1551: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1552: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1553: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1554: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1555: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1556: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1557: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1558: of more secure open-source solutions like
1559: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1560: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1561: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1562: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1563: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1564: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1565: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1566: the Beltway."
1567: <p>
1.251 ian 1568: </ul>
1569:
1.249 jufi 1570: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1571: <ul>
1572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1573: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1574: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1575: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1576: </strong></font><br>
1577: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1578: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1579: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1580: <p>
1.334 ian 1581:
1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1583: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1584: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1585: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1586: </strong></font><br>
1587: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1588: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1589: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1590: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1591: "... the hypothetical question ...
1592: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1593: <br>
1594: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1595: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1596: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1597: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1598: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1599: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1600: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1601: support network security.
1602: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1603: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1604: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1605: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1606: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1607: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1608: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1609: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1610: <br>
1611: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1612: <p>
1613:
1.249 jufi 1614: </ul>
1615:
1.246 jufi 1616: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1617: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1618:
1.247 jufi 1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1620: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1621: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1622: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1623: </strong></font><br>
1624: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1625: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1626: <p>
1627:
1.247 jufi 1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1629: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1630: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1631: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1632: </strong></font><br>
1633: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1634: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1635: <p>
1636:
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1638: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1639: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1640: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1641: </strong></font><br>
1642: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1643: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1644: <p>
1.247 jufi 1645: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1646:
1.244 jufi 1647: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1648: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1651: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1652: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1653: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1654: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1657: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1658: md5 digests.
1659: <p>
1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1662: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1663: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1664: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1665: </strong></font><br>
1666: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1667: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1668: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1669: right the first time."
1670: <p>
1.247 jufi 1671: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1672:
1673:
1674: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1675: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1676:
1.247 jufi 1677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1678: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1679: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1680: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1681: </strong></font><br>
1682: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1683: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1684: part 6</a>.
1685: <p>
1686:
1.247 jufi 1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1688: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1689: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1690: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1691: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1692: </strong></font><br>
1693: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1694: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1695: <p>
1.301 jose 1696:
1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1698: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1699: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1700: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1701: </strong></font><br>
1702:
1703: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1704: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1705: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1706: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1707: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1708: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1709: <i>Here's the
1710: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1711: <p>
1.247 jufi 1712: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1713:
1714: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1715: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1718: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1719: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1720: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1723: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1724: <p>
1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1727: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1728: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1729: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1730: </strong></font><br>
1731: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1732: this time using pf.
1733: <p>
1.247 jufi 1734: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1735:
1736: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1737: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1738:
1.247 jufi 1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1740: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1741: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1742: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1743: </strong></font><br>
1744: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1745: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1746: their rotation.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1750: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1751: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1752: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1753: </strong></font><br>
1754: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1755: <p>
1.247 jufi 1756: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1757:
1.239 jufi 1758: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1759: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1760:
1.247 jufi 1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1762: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1763: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1764: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1765: </strong></font><br>
1766: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1767: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1768: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1769: <p>
1770:
1.247 jufi 1771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1772: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1773: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1774: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1775: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1776: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1777: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1778: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1779: <p>
1.247 jufi 1780: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1781:
1.235 lebel 1782: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1783: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1784:
1.239 jufi 1785:
1.247 jufi 1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1787: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1788: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1789: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1790: </strong></font><br>
1791: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1792: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1793: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1794: <p>
1.301 jose 1795:
1.247 jufi 1796: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1797:
1.228 horacio 1798: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1799: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1802: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1803: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1804: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1805: </strong></font><br>
1806: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1807: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1808: <p>
1809:
1.247 jufi 1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1811: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1812: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1813: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1814: </strong></font><br>
1815: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1816: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1817: <p>
1818:
1.247 jufi 1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1820: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1821: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1822: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1823: </strong></font><br>
1824: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1825: on the desktop of his parents.
1826: <p>
1827:
1.247 jufi 1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1829: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1830: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1831: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1832: </strong></font><br>
1833: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1834: using IPFilter.
1835:
1836: <p>
1837:
1.247 jufi 1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1839: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1840: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1841: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1842: </strong></font><br>
1843: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1844: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1845: perspectives of the four OS.
1846: <br>
1847: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1848: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1849: <p>
1850:
1.247 jufi 1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1852: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1853: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1854: software and security</a>,
1855: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1856: </strong></font><br>
1857:
1858: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1859: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1860: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1861: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1862: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1863: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1864: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1865: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1866: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1867: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1868: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1869: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1870: <p>
1.247 jufi 1871: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1872:
1.225 horacio 1873: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1874: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1875:
1.247 jufi 1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1877: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1878: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1879: Interview</a>,
1880: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1881: </strong></font><br>
1882:
1883: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1884: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1885: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1886: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1887: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1888: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1889: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1890: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1891: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1892: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1893: of choice.
1894: <p>
1.247 jufi 1895: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1896:
1897: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1898: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1899:
1.247 jufi 1900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1901: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1902: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1903: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1904: </strong></font><br>
1905:
1906: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1907: <p>
1908:
1.247 jufi 1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1910: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1911: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1912: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1913: </strong></font><br>
1914:
1915: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1916: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1917: <p>
1.247 jufi 1918: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1919:
1.218 horacio 1920: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1921: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1922:
1.247 jufi 1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1924: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1925: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1926: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1927: </strong></font><br>
1928:
1929: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1930: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1931: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1932: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1933: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1934: subjects. Worth a read.
1935: <p>
1936:
1937:
1.247 jufi 1938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1939: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1940: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1941: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1942: </strong></font><br>
1943:
1944: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1945: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1946: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1947: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1948: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1949: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1950: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1951: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1952: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1953: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1954: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1955: on other operating systems.<br>
1956: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1957: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1958: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1959: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1960: <p>
1961:
1.247 jufi 1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1963: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1964: Operating System 2010</a>,
1965: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1966: </strong></font><br>
1967:
1968: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1969: covering the level of software integration into the core
1970: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1971: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1972: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1973: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1974: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1975: <p>
1976:
1.247 jufi 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1978: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1979: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1980: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1981: </strong></font><br>
1982:
1983: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1984: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1985: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1986: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1987: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1988: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1989: <p>
1.247 jufi 1990: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1991:
1.210 jufi 1992: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1993: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1994:
1.247 jufi 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1996: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1997: Already a Contender</a>,
1998: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1999: </strong></font><br>
2000:
2001: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2002: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2003: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2004: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2005: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2006: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2007: <p>
2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2010: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2011: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2012: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2013: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2014:
1.224 horacio 2015: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2016: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2017: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2018: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2019: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2020: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2021: <p>
1.247 jufi 2022: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2023:
2024: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2025: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2026:
1.247 jufi 2027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2028: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2029: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2030: Division</a>,
2031: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2032: </strong></font><br>
2033:
2034: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2035: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2036: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2037: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2038: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2039: investment</em>.<br>
2040: The implementation details can be seen on their
2041: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2042: <p>
2043:
1.247 jufi 2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2045: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2046: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2047: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2048: </strong></font><br>
2049:
2050: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2051: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2052: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2053: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2054: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2055: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2056: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2057: <p>
2058:
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2060: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2061: Thinking about Security</a>,
2062: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2063: </strong></font><br>
2064:
2065: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2066: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2067: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2068: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2069: to time.<br>
2070: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2071: system and just the most secure system.
2072: <p>
2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2075: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2076: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2077: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2078: </strong></font><br>
2079:
2080: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2081: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2082: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2083: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2084: choice:<br>
2085: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2086: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2087: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2088: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2089: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2090: network security devices and as such must be well
2091: armored."</em><br>
2092: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2093: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2094: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2095: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2096: <br>
2097: Bravo!
2098: <p>
1.247 jufi 2099: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2100:
1.207 ian 2101: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2102: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2103:
1.247 jufi 2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2105: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2106: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2107: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2108:
1.207 ian 2109: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2110: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2111: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2112: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2113: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2114: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2115: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2116: <p>
1.247 jufi 2117: </ul>
1.207 ian 2118:
1.194 jufi 2119: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2120: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2123: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2124: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2125: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2126: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2127:
1.240 miod 2128: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2129: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2130: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2131: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2132: <p>
2133:
1.247 jufi 2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2135: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2136: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2137: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2138:
2139: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2140: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2141: <p>
2142:
2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2144: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2145: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2146: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2147:
2148: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2149: <p>
2150:
2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2152: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2153: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2154: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2155: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2156:
1.240 miod 2157: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2158: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2159: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2160: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2161: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2162: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2163: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2164: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2165: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2166: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2167: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2168: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2169: <p>
2170:
1.247 jufi 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2172: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2173: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2174: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2175: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2176:
1.194 jufi 2177: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2178: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2179: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2180: <br>
2181: The new
2182: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2183: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2184: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2185: <p>
1.247 jufi 2186: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2187:
1.190 horacio 2188: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2189: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2190:
1.247 jufi 2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2192:
2193: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2194: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2195:
1.301 jose 2196:
1.191 jufi 2197: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2198: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2199:
2200: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2201: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2202:
1.212 horacio 2203: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2204: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2205: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2206:
1.211 horacio 2207: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2208: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2209: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2212: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2213:
1.247 jufi 2214: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2215: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2216:
1.212 horacio 2217: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2218: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2219: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2220:
2221: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2222: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2223:
2224: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2225: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2226:
1.301 jose 2227: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2228: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2229:
1.191 jufi 2230: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2231: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2232:
2233: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2234: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2235:
1.192 jufi 2236: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2237: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2238: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2239:
1.193 deraadt 2240: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2241: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2242: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2245: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2248: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2249: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2250:
1.213 horacio 2251: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2252: 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 2253: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2254:
1.190 horacio 2255: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2256: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2257: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2258: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2259: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2260: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2261: <p>
1.190 horacio 2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2264: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2265: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2266: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2267: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2268:
1.195 jufi 2269: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2270: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2271: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2272: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2273: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2274: <p>
2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2277: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2278: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2279: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2280: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2281:
1.191 jufi 2282: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2283: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2284: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2285: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2286: <p>
2287:
2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2289: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2290: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2291: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2292:
2293: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2294: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2295: <p>
1.247 jufi 2296: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2297:
1.191 jufi 2298:
1.186 jufi 2299: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2300: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2301:
1.247 jufi 2302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2303: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2304: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2305: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2306: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2307:
1.188 jufi 2308: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2309: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2310: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2311: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2312: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2313: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2314: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2315: <p>
2316:
1.301 jose 2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2318: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2319: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2320: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2321:
2322: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2323: <p>
1.191 jufi 2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2326: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2327: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2328: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2329: </strong></font><br>
2330:
2331: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2332: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2333: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2334: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2335: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2336: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2337: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2338: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2339: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2340: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2341: familiar?
2342: <p>
1.247 jufi 2343: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2344:
1.178 louis 2345: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2346: <ul>
1.178 louis 2347:
1.247 jufi 2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2349: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2350: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2351: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2352: </strong></font><br>
2353:
2354: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2355: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2356: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2357: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2358: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2359: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2360: <p>
2361:
1.247 jufi 2362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2363: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2364: Open source under the hood</a>,
2365: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2366: </strong></font><br>
2367:
2368: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2369: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2370: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2371: <p>
2372:
1.247 jufi 2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2374: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2375: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2376: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2377: </strong></font><br>
2378:
2379: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2380: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2381: <p>
1.247 jufi 2382: </ul>
1.179 louis 2383:
1.174 louis 2384:
1.175 louis 2385: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2386: <ul>
1.175 louis 2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2389: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2390: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2391: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2392: </strong></font><br>
2393:
2394: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2395: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2396: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2397: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2398: <p>
2399:
1.247 jufi 2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2401: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2402: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2403: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2404: </strong></font><br>
2405:
2406: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2407: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2408: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2409: <p>
1.247 jufi 2410: </ul>
1.175 louis 2411:
1.176 louis 2412:
1.172 mickey 2413: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2414: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2415:
1.247 jufi 2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2417: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2418: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2419: </strong></font><br>
2420:
2421: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2422: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2423: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2424: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2425: <p>
2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2428: <a
1.269 deraadt 2429: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2430: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2431: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2432: </strong></font><br>
2433:
2434: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2435: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2436: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2437: <p>
2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2440: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2441: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2442: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2443: </strong></font><br>
2444:
2445: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2446: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2447: <p>
2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2450: <a
1.269 deraadt 2451: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2452: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2453: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2454: </strong></font><br>
2455:
2456: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2457: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2458: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2459: our own Theo de Raadt.
2460: <p>
2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2463: <a
1.269 deraadt 2464: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2465: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2466: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2467: </strong></font><br>
2468:
2469: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2470: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2471: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2472: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2473: shut down.]
2474: <p>
2475:
1.247 jufi 2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2477: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2478: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2479: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2480: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2481: </strong></font><br>
2482:
2483: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2484: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2485: <p>
1.247 jufi 2486: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2487:
1.161 louis 2488: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2489: <ul>
1.161 louis 2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2492: <a
1.269 deraadt 2493: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2494: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2495: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2496: </strong></font><br>
2497:
2498: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2499: by John Wolley
2500: <p>
2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2503: <a
1.269 deraadt 2504: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2505: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2506: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2507: </strong></font><br>
2508:
2509: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2510: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2511: OpenBSD).
2512: <p>
2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2515: <a
1.247 jufi 2516: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2517: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2518: </strong></font><br>
2519:
2520: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2521: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2522: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2523: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2524: and hindsight.
2525: <p>
2526:
1.247 jufi 2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2528: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2529: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2530: </strong></font><br>
2531:
2532: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2533: <p>
2534:
1.247 jufi 2535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2536: <a
1.168 provos 2537: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2538: December 7, 2000
2539: </strong></font><br>
2540:
2541: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2542: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2543: us explain.
2544: <p>
2545:
1.247 jufi 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2547: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2548: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2549: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2550: December 6, 2000
2551: </strong></font><br>
2552:
2553: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2554: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2555: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2556: <p>
2557:
1.247 jufi 2558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2559: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2560: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2561: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2562: </strong></font><br>
2563:
2564: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2565: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2566: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2567: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2568: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2569: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2570: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2571: <p>
2572:
2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2574: <a
1.226 horacio 2575: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2576: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2577: </strong></font><br>
2578:
2579: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2580: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2581: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2582: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2583: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2584: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2585: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2586: <p>
1.162 millert 2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2589: <a
1.161 louis 2590: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2591: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2592: </strong></font><br>
2593:
2594: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2595: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2596: <p>
2597:
1.247 jufi 2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2599: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2600: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2601: </strong></font><br>
2602:
2603: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2604: <p>
2605:
2606:
1.247 jufi 2607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2608: <a
1.226 horacio 2609: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2610: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2611: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2612: </strong></font><br>
2613:
2614: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2615: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2616: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2617: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2618: <p>
1.247 jufi 2619: </ul>
1.169 louis 2620:
1.158 louis 2621: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2622: <ul>
1.147 louis 2623:
1.247 jufi 2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2625: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2626: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628:
2629: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2630: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2631: <p>
2632:
1.247 jufi 2633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2634: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2635: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2636: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2637: </strong></font><br>
2638: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2639: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2640: <p>
2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2643: <a
2644: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2645: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2646: </strong></font><br>
2647:
2648: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2649: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2650: <p>
2651:
1.247 jufi 2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2653: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2654: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2655: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2656:
1.213 horacio 2657: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2658: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2659: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2660: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2661: <p>
1.215 horacio 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2664: <a
2665: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2666: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2667: </strong></font><br>
2668:
2669: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2670: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2671: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2672: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2673: much of the attitude too).
2674: <p>
1.161 louis 2675:
1.247 jufi 2676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2677: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2678: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2679: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2680:
1.157 louis 2681: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2682: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2683: <p>
1.247 jufi 2684: </ul>
1.157 louis 2685:
2686: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2687: <ul>
1.157 louis 2688:
1.247 jufi 2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2690: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2691: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2692: </strong></font><br>
2693:
2694: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2695: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2696: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2697: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2698: <p>
2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2701: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2702: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2703: </strong></font><br>
2704:
2705: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2706: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2707: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2708: it because they love coding...
2709: <p>
2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2712: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2713: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2714: </strong></font><br>
2715:
2716: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2717: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2718: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2719: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2720: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2721: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2722: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2723: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2724: <p>
2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2727: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2728: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2729: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2730: </strong></font><br>
2731:
2732: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2733: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2734: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2735: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2736: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2737: the pizza.
2738: <p>
2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2741: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2742: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2743: </strong></font><br>
2744:
2745: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2746: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2747: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2748: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2749: problems.
2750: <p>
2751:
1.247 jufi 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2753: <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 2754: </strong></font><br>
2755:
1.222 miod 2756: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2757: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2758: - whether they like it or not.
2759: <p>
2760:
1.247 jufi 2761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2762: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2763: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2764: </strong></font><br>
2765:
2766: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2767: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2768: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2769: <p>
1.148 aaron 2770:
1.247 jufi 2771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2772: <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 2773: </strong></font><br>
2774:
2775: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2776: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2777: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2778: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2779: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2780: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2781: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2782: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2783: <p>
2784:
1.247 jufi 2785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2786: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2787: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2788: </strong></font><br>
2789:
2790: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2791: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 2792: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2793: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2794: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2795: <p>
1.247 jufi 2796: </ul>
1.147 louis 2797:
1.138 louis 2798: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2799: <ul>
1.138 louis 2800:
1.247 jufi 2801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2802: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2803: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2804: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2805: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2806: </strong></font><br>
2807:
1.227 horacio 2808: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2809: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2810: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2811: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2812: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2813: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2814: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2815: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2816: <p>
2817:
1.247 jufi 2818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2819: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2820: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2821: </strong></font><br>
2822:
2823: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2824: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2825: groups, and even Linux.
2826: <p>
2827:
1.247 jufi 2828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2829: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2830: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2831: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2832: </strong></font><br>
2833:
2834: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2835: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2836: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2837: library after installing the OS.
2838: <p>
2839:
1.247 jufi 2840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2841: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2842: Sys Admin, September 2000
2843: </strong></font><br>
2844:
2845: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2846: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2847: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2848: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2849: (<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>,
2850: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2851: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2852: <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 2853: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2854: out of the system.
2855: <p>
2856:
1.247 jufi 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2858: <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
2859: </strong></font><br>
2860:
2861: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 2862: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 2863: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2864: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2865: the IP filtering and address translation.
2866: <p>
1.301 jose 2867:
2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2869: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2870: </strong></font><br>
2871:
2872: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2873: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2874: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2875: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2876: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2877: <p>
1.247 jufi 2878: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2879:
1.131 louis 2880: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2881: <ul>
1.131 louis 2882:
1.247 jufi 2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2884: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2885: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2886: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888:
2889: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2890: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2891: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2892: <p>
2893:
1.247 jufi 2894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2895: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2896: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2897: </strong></font><br>
2898:
2899: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2900: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2901: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2902: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2903: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2904: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2905: note of"</i>.
2906: <p>
2907:
1.247 jufi 2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2909: <a
1.247 jufi 2910: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2911: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2912: </strong></font><br>
2913:
2914: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2915: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2916: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2917: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2918: <p>
2919:
1.247 jufi 2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2921: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2922: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2923: </strong></font><br>
2924:
2925: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2926: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2927: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2928: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2929: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2930: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2931: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2932: <p>
2933:
1.247 jufi 2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2935: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2936: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2937: 2000
2938: </strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2941: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2942: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2943: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2944: against current industry practices.
2945: <p>
2946:
1.247 jufi 2947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2948: <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
2949: </strong></font><br>
2950:
2951: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2952: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2953: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2954: <p>
2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2957: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2958: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2959: </strong></font><br>
2960:
2961: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2962: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2963: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2964: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2965: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2966: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2967: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2968: <p>
2969:
1.247 jufi 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2971: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2972: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2973: </strong></font><br>
2974:
2975: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2976: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2977: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2978: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2979: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2980: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2981: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2982: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2983: <p>
1.247 jufi 2984: </ul>
1.131 louis 2985:
1.118 louis 2986: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2987: <ul>
1.118 louis 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2990: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2991: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2992: </strong></font><br>
2993:
2994: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2995: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2996: about time. The article mentions that
2997: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2998: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2999: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3000: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3001: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3002: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3003: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3004: <p>
3005:
1.247 jufi 3006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3007: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3008: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3009: </strong></font><br>
3010:
3011: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3012: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3013: of OpenSSH.
3014: <p>
3015:
1.247 jufi 3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3017: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3018: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3019: </strong></font><br>
3020:
3021: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3022: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3023: bridging.
3024: <p>
3025:
1.247 jufi 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3027: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3028: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3029: </strong></font><br>
3030:
1.121 deraadt 3031: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3032: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3033: <p>
3034:
1.247 jufi 3035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3036: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3037: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3038: </strong></font><br>
3039:
3040: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3041: <p>
3042:
1.247 jufi 3043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3044: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3045: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3046: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3047: </strong></font><br>
3048:
1.120 deraadt 3049: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3050: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3051: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3052: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3053: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3054: <p>
3055:
1.247 jufi 3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3057: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3058: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3059: </strong></font><br>
3060:
1.222 miod 3061: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3062: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3063: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3064: protocols and their quirks.
3065: <p>
3066:
1.247 jufi 3067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3068: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3069: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3070: </strong></font><br>
3071:
3072: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3073: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3074: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3075: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3076: <p>
3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3079: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3080: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3081: </strong></font><br>
3082:
3083: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3084: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3085: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3086: <p>
3087:
1.247 jufi 3088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3089: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3090: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3091: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3092: </strong></font><br>
3093:
3094: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3095: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3096: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3097: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3098: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3099: <p>
1.247 jufi 3100: </ul>
1.118 louis 3101:
1.104 louis 3102: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3103: <ul>
1.104 louis 3104:
1.247 jufi 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3106: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3107: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3108: </strong></font><br>
3109:
3110: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3111: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3112: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3113: be a bit dry.
3114: <p>
3115:
1.247 jufi 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3117: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3118: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3119: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3120: </strong></font><br>
3121: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3122: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3123: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3124: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3125: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3126: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3127: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3128: <p>
3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3131: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3132: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3133: 2000
1.128 louis 3134: </strong></font><br>
3135:
3136: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3137: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3138: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3139: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3140: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3141: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3142: <p>
3143:
1.247 jufi 3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3145: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3146: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3147: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3148:
3149: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3150: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3151: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3152: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3153: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3154: <p>
1.110 louis 3155:
1.247 jufi 3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3157: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3158: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3162: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3163: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3164: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3165: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3166: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3167: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3168: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3169: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3170: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3171: <p>
3172:
1.247 jufi 3173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3174: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3175: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3176:
3177: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3178: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3179: <p>
1.108 louis 3180:
1.247 jufi 3181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3182: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3183: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3184: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3185:
3186: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3187: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3188: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3189: <p>
1.106 louis 3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3192: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3193: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3194: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3195:
3196: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3197: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3198: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3199: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3200: <p>
1.107 louis 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3203: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3204: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3205: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3206:
3207: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3208: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3209: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3210: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3211: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3212: <p>
1.105 louis 3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3215: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3216: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3217: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3218:
1.113 naddy 3219: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3220: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3221: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3222: <p>
1.104 louis 3223:
1.247 jufi 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3225: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3226: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3227: </strong></font><br>
3228:
3229: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3230: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3231: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3232: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3233: <p>
1.301 jose 3234:
3235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3236: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3237: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3238: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3241: hardware-supported cryptography.
3242: <p>
1.247 jufi 3243: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3244:
1.85 louis 3245: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3246: <ul>
1.85 louis 3247:
1.247 jufi 3248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3249: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3250: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3251: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3252:
3253: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3254: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3255: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3256: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3257: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3258: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3259: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3260: <p>
1.99 louis 3261:
1.247 jufi 3262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3263: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3264: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3265: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3266:
3267: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3268: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3269: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3270: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3271: <p>
1.100 louis 3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3274: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3275: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3276: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3277:
3278: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3279: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3280: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3281: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3282: <p>
1.95 louis 3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3285: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3286: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3287: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3288:
3289: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3290: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3291: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3292: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3293: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3294: <p>
1.92 louis 3295:
1.247 jufi 3296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3297: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3298: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3299: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3300:
3301: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3302: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3303: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3304: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3305: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3306: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3307: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3308: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3309: <p>
1.91 louis 3310:
1.247 jufi 3311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3312: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3313: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3314: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3315:
3316: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3317: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3318: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3319: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3320: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3321: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3322: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3323: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3324: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3325: <p>
1.90 louis 3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3328: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3329: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3330: </strong></font><br>
3331: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3332: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3333: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3334: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3335: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3336: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3337: <p>
3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3340: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3341: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3342: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3343:
1.113 naddy 3344: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3345: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3346: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3347: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3348: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3349: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3350: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3351: <p>
1.87 louis 3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3354: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3355: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3356: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3357:
3358: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3359: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3360: <p>
1.85 louis 3361:
1.247 jufi 3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3363: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3364: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3365: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3366:
3367: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3368: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3369: <p>
3370:
3371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3372: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3373: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3374: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3375:
3376: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3377: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3378: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3379: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3380: <p>
1.89 louis 3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3383: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3384: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3386:
3387: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3388: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3389: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3390: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3391: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3392: </ul>
1.85 louis 3393:
1.78 deraadt 3394: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3395: <ul>
1.74 louis 3396:
1.247 jufi 3397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3398: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3399: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3400: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3401: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3402:
3403: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3404: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3405: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3406: <p>
1.83 louis 3407:
1.247 jufi 3408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3409: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3410: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3411: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3412:
3413: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3414: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3415: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3416: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3417: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3418: <p>
1.93 louis 3419:
1.247 jufi 3420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3421: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3422: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3423: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3424: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3425:
1.83 louis 3426: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3427: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3428: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3429: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3430: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3431: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3432: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3433: <p>
1.82 aaron 3434:
1.247 jufi 3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3436: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3437: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3438: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3439:
1.83 louis 3440: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3441: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3442: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3443: <p>
1.80 louis 3444:
1.247 jufi 3445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3446: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3447: Bad Press</a>,
3448: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3449: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3450:
3451: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3452: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3453: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3454: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3455: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3456: <p>
1.247 jufi 3457: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3458:
3459: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3460: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3461:
1.247 jufi 3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3463: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3464: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3465: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3466: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3467:
3468: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3469: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3470: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3471: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3472: <p>
1.74 louis 3473:
1.247 jufi 3474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3475: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3476: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3477: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3478:
1.219 horacio 3479: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3480: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3481: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3482: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3483: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3484: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3485: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3486: <p>
1.88 louis 3487:
1.247 jufi 3488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3489: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3490: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3491: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3492:
3493: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3494: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3495: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3496: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3497: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3498: <p>
1.81 louis 3499:
1.247 jufi 3500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3501: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3502: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3503: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3504:
3505: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3506: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3507: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3508: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3509: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3510: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3511: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3512: <p>
1.90 louis 3513:
1.247 jufi 3514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3515: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3516: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3517: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3518:
3519: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3520: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3521: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3522: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3523: <p>
1.247 jufi 3524: </ul>
1.71 louis 3525:
1.69 deraadt 3526: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3527: <ul>
1.70 louis 3528:
1.247 jufi 3529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3530: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3531: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3532: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3533:
3534: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3535: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3536: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3537: <p>
1.70 louis 3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3540: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3541: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3542: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3543:
3544: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3545: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3546: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3547: <p>
1.68 louis 3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3550: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3551: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3552: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3553: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3554:
1.111 jufi 3555: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3556: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3557: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3558: "secure by default" installation.
3559: <p>
1.64 louis 3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3562: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3563: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3564: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3565:
1.113 naddy 3566: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3567: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3568: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3569: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3570: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3571: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3572: <p>
1.66 louis 3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3575: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3576: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3577: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3578:
3579: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3580: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3581: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3582: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3583: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3584: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3585: <p>
1.83 louis 3586:
1.247 jufi 3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3588: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3589: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3590: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3591:
3592: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3593: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3594: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3595: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3596: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3597: <p>
1.64 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3600: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3601: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3602: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3603:
3604: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3605: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3606: <p>
1.301 jose 3607:
3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3609: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3610: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3611: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3612: </strong></font><br>
3613:
3614: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3615: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3616: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3617: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3618: Giving way to
3619: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3620: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3621: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3622: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3623: <p>
1.247 jufi 3624: </ul>
1.65 louis 3625:
1.69 deraadt 3626: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3627: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3628:
1.247 jufi 3629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3630: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3631: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3632: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3633:
3634: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3635: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3636: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3637: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3638: <p>
1.88 louis 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3641: <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 3642: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3643:
3644: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3645: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3646: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3647: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3648: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3649: <p>
1.60 louis 3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3652: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3653: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3654: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3655: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3656:
3657: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3658: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3659: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3660: <p>
1.58 louis 3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3663: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3664: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3665:
3666: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3667: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3668: <p>
1.53 louis 3669:
1.247 jufi 3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3671: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3672: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3673: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3674:
3675: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3676: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3677: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3678: <p>
1.99 louis 3679:
1.247 jufi 3680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3681: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3682: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3683:
3684: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3685: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3686: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3687: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3688: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3689:
1.247 jufi 3690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3691: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3692: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3693: </strong></font><br>
3694:
3695: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3696: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3697: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3698: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3699: <p>
3700:
1.247 jufi 3701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3702: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3703: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3704: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3705:
3706: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3707: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3708: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3709:
1.247 jufi 3710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3711: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3712: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3713:
3714: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3715: in
1.247 jufi 3716: <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 3717: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3718: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3719: <p>
1.53 louis 3720:
1.247 jufi 3721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3722: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3723: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3724: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3725: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3726:
1.58 louis 3727: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3728: <p>
1.301 jose 3729:
3730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3731: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3732: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3733: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3734: Informacyjny, January 2000
3735: </strong></font><br>
3736:
3737: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3738: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3739: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3740: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3741: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3742: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3743: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3744: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3745: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3746: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3747: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3748: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3749: <p>
3750:
3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3752: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3753: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3754: </strong></font><br>
3755:
3756: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3757: <p>
3758: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3759:
1.69 deraadt 3760: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3761: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3762:
1.247 jufi 3763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3764: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3765: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3766: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3767: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3768:
1.58 louis 3769: Kurt Seifried
3770: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3771: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3772: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3773: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3776: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3777: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3778: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3779:
3780: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3781: <p>
1.96 louis 3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3784: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3785: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3786: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3787: </strong></font><br>
3788:
3789: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3790: <p>
3791:
3792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3793: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3794: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3795: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3796:
3797: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3798: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3799: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3800: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3801: <p>
1.247 jufi 3802: </ul>
1.86 louis 3803:
1.69 deraadt 3804: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3805: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3806:
1.247 jufi 3807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3808: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3809: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3810: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3811:
3812: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3813: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3814: <p>
1.61 louis 3815:
1.247 jufi 3816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3817: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3818: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3819: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3820: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3821:
3822: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3823: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3824: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3825: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3826: right -- or at least strives to".
3827: <p>
1.48 louis 3828:
1.247 jufi 3829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3830: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3831: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3832: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3833: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3834: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3835: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3836: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3837: <p>
1.61 louis 3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <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 3840: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3841: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3842:
3843: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3844: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3845: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3846: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3847: <p>
1.46 louis 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3850: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3851: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3852: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3853:
3854: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3855: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3856: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3857:
1.247 jufi 3858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3859: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3860: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3861: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3862:
3863: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3864: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3865: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3866: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3867: <p>
1.247 jufi 3868: </ul>
1.70 louis 3869:
1.69 deraadt 3870: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3871: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3874: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3875: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3876: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3877: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3878:
3879: Kurt Seifried
3880: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3881: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3882: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3883: <p>
1.44 philen 3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <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 3886: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3887: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3888:
3889: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3890: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: <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 3893: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3894: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3895:
3896: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3897: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <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 3900: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3901: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3902:
3903: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3904: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3905: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3906: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3907: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3908:
1.247 jufi 3909: <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 3910: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3911: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3912:
1.36 louis 3913: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3914: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3915:
1.247 jufi 3916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3917: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3918: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3919: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3920:
3921: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3922: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3923: </ul>
1.38 louis 3924:
1.69 deraadt 3925: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3926: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3927:
1.247 jufi 3928: <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 3929: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3930: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3931:
3932: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3933: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3934: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3935:
1.113 naddy 3936: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3937: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3938: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3939: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3940:
3941: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3942: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3943: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3944: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3945: <blockquote>
3946: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3947: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3948: <br>
3949: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3950: </code>
3951: </blockquote>
3952: <p>
3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3955: <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 3956: <p>
3957:
3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3959: <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 3960: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3961:
3962: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3963: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3964: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3965: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3966:
1.247 jufi 3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3968: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3969: Sept. 28, 1999
3970: </strong></font><br>
3971:
3972: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3973: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3974: translating and reprinting articles from
3975: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3976: <p>
3977:
3978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3979: <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 3980: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3981:
3982: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3983: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3984: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3985: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3986: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3987: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3988: <p>
1.19 louis 3989:
1.113 naddy 3990: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3991: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3992: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3993:
3994: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3995: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3996: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3997: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3998: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3999: <p>
1.16 louis 4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4002: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4003: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4004: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4005:
1.57 louis 4006: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4007: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4008: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4009: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4012: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4013: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4014: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4015:
1.113 naddy 4016: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4017:
1.247 jufi 4018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4019: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4020: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4021: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4022:
1.23 louis 4023: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4024: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4025: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4026: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4027: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4028: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4029:
1.247 jufi 4030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4031: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4032: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4033: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4034:
1.199 pvalchev 4035: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4036: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4037: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4038: installation.
1.113 naddy 4039: <p>
1.47 louis 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4042: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4043: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4044: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4045:
1.301 jose 4046: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4047: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4048: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4049: </ul>
1.57 louis 4050:
1.69 deraadt 4051: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4052: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4053:
1.247 jufi 4054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4055: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4056: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4057: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4058:
4059: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4060: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4061: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4062: <p>
1.12 louis 4063:
1.247 jufi 4064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4065: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4066: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4067: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4068:
4069: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4070: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4071: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4072: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4073: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4074: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4075: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4076: <p>
1.247 jufi 4077: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4078:
1.69 deraadt 4079: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4080: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4081:
1.247 jufi 4082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4083: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4084: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4085:
4086: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4087: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4088: available."
1.113 naddy 4089: <p>
1.301 jose 4090:
4091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4092: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4093: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4094: </strong></font><br>
4095:
4096: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4097: <p>
1.247 jufi 4098: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4099:
1.69 deraadt 4100: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4101: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4102:
1.247 jufi 4103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4104: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4105: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4106:
4107: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4108: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4109: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4110: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4111: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4112: <p>
1.33 louis 4113:
1.247 jufi 4114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4115: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4116: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4117: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4118:
1.113 naddy 4119: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4120: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4121: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4122: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4123: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4124: <p>
1.247 jufi 4125: </ul>
1.57 louis 4126:
1.69 deraadt 4127: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4128: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4131: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4132: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4133: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4134:
4135: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4136: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4137: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4138:
1.247 jufi 4139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4140: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4141: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4142: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4143: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4144:
4145: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4146: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4149: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4150:
1.113 naddy 4151: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4154: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4155: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4156: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4157:
4158: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4159: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4160: </ul>
1.23 louis 4161:
1.69 deraadt 4162: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4163: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4164:
1.247 jufi 4165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4166: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4167: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4168:
4169: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4170: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4171: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4172:
1.247 jufi 4173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4174: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4175: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4176: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4177:
4178: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4179: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4180: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4181: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4182: </ul>
1.57 louis 4183:
1.69 deraadt 4184: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4185: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4186:
1.247 jufi 4187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4188: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4189: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4190: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4191:
4192: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4193: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4194: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4195: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4196: <p>
1.15 louis 4197:
1.247 jufi 4198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4199: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4200: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4201: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4202:
4203: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4204: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4205: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4206: columns."
1.113 naddy 4207: <p>
1.247 jufi 4208: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4209:
1.69 deraadt 4210: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4211: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4212:
1.247 jufi 4213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4214: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4215: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4216: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4217:
4218: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4219: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4220:
1.113 naddy 4221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4222: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4223: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4224:
4225: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4226: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4227: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4228: </ul>
1.57 louis 4229:
1.69 deraadt 4230: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4231: <ul>
1.301 jose 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4233: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4234: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4235: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4236:
4237: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4238: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4239: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4240: <p>
4241:
4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4243: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4244: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4245: Nov 13, 1998 and
4246: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4247: Datateknik</a>,
4248: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4249:
1.380 saad 4250: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4251: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4252: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4253: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4254: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4255:
1.113 naddy 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4257: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4258: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4259: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4260:
1.222 miod 4261: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4262: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4263: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4264: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4265: <p>
1.247 jufi 4266: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4267:
1.69 deraadt 4268: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4269: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4270:
1.247 jufi 4271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4272: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4273: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4274:
1.69 deraadt 4275: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4276: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4277: <p>
1.247 jufi 4278: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4279:
1.69 deraadt 4280: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4281: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4282:
1.247 jufi 4283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4284: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4285: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4286: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4287:
1.383 jcs 4288: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4289: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4290: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4291:
1.247 jufi 4292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4293: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4294: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4295: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4296: <p>
1.247 jufi 4297: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4298:
1.69 deraadt 4299: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4300: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4301:
1.247 jufi 4302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4303: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4304: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4305: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4306: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4307: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4308:
4309: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4310: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4311: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4312: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4313: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4314: <p>
1.247 jufi 4315: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4316:
4317: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4318: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4319:
1.247 jufi 4320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4321: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4322: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4323:
1.69 deraadt 4324: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4325: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4326: <p>
1.112 naddy 4327:
1.247 jufi 4328: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4329: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4330:
1.292 camield 4331: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4332: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4333: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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