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1.407 henning 19: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ! ian 22: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
! 23: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
! 24: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
! 25: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
! 26: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
! 27: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
! 28: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
! 29: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
! 30: <p>
! 31:
! 32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 33: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
34: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
35: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
36: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
37: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
38: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
39: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
40: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
41: of the important changes in 3.6.
42: </p>
43:
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 45: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
46: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
47: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
48: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
49: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
50: overflow attacks... because
51: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
52: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
53: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
54: and propolice.
55: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
56: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
57: and that's when the science falls apart."
58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 61: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
62: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
63: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
64: Starts with the question:
65: <blockquote>
66: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
67: <br/>
68: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
69: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
70: <br/>
71: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
72: Should we believe them?"
73: </blockquote>
74: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
75: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
76: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
77: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
78: for your mail, web and other online activities.
79: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 83: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
84: Simple Simon</a>,
85: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
86: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
87: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
88: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
89: routing/firewall, and more.
90: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
91: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
92: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
93: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
94: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
95: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
96: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
97: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
98: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
99: </blockquote>
100: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
101: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
102: <p>
103:
104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 105: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
106: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 107: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 108: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 109: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
110: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
111: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 112: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 113: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
114: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
115: in spite of it
116: (registration required, but worth it).
117: <p>
118:
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
120: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
121: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
122: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
123: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
124: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
125: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
126: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 127: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 128: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
129: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
130: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
131: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
132: <p>
133:
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 135: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
136: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
137: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
138: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
139: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
140: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
141: <blockquote>
142: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
143: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
144: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
145: a lot of analysis.
146: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
147: </blockquote>
148: <p>
149: </ul>
150:
1.400 marco 151: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
152: <ul>
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 154: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
155: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
156: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
157: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
158: UNIX-like systems.
159: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
160: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
161: <p>
162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.406 nick 163: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature"
164: >Going further to stop hackers</a>
165: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
166: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
167: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
168: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
169: At one point, the article states:
170: <blockquote>
171: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
172: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
173: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
174: </blockquote>
175: And then quotes Theo as saying:
176: <blockquote>
177: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
178: fewer are reading or auditing code."
179: </blockquote>
180: <p>
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
182: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
183: marks its fifth birthday</a>
184: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
185: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
186: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
187: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
188: required).
189: <p>
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 191: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
192: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
193: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
194: </strong></font><br>
195: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
196: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
197: <p>
198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 199: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
200: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 201: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 202: </strong></font><br>
203: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
204: <p>
205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 206: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
207: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 208: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 209: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 210: 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 211: <p>
212: </ul>
213:
1.396 henning 214: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
215: <ul>
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 217: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 218: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
219: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
220: </strong></font><br>
221: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
222: <p>
223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 224: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 225: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
226: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
227: </strong></font><br>
228: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
229: <p>
230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 231: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
232: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
233: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
234: </strong></font><br>
235: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
236: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
237: <p>
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 239: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
240: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
241: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
242: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
243: <p>
244: </ul>
245:
1.405 jolan 246: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
247: <ul>
248: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
249: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
250: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
251: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
252: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
253: details on how funds are dispersed.
254: <p>
255: </ul>
256:
1.393 david 257: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
258: <ul>
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 260: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
261: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
262: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
263: </strong></font><br>
264: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
265: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
266: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
267: on inserting large number of SQL records.
268: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
269: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
270: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 274: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
275: Secure by Default</a>,
276: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
277: </strong></font><br>
278: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
279: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
283: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
284: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
285: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
286: </strong></font><br>
287: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
288: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
289: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
290: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
291: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
292: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
296: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
297: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
298: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
299: </strong></font><br>
300: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
301: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
302: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
303: <p>
304:
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
307: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
308: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
309: </strong></font><br>
310: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
311: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
312: <p>
313: </ul>
314:
1.388 mcbride 315: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
316: <ul>
1.394 jolan 317:
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
320: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
321: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
322: </strong></font><br>
323: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
324: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
325: available for sparc64.
326: <p>
327:
1.390 beck 328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
330: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
331: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
332: </strong></font><br>
333: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
334: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
335: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
336: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 340: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
341: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 342: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 343: </strong></font><br>
344: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
345: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
346: it does: CARP provides sharing
347: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
348: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
349: detail to get you started using it.
350: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
351: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
352: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
353: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
354: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
355: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
356: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 357: <p>
1.391 ian 358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 360: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 361: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
362: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 363: </strong></font><br>
364: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 365: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 366: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 367: <p>
1.388 mcbride 368:
369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
370: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
371: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 372: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 373: </strong></font><br>
374: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
375: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
376: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
377: unencumbered by patents.
378: <p>
379: </ul>
380:
1.378 henning 381: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
382: <ul>
1.384 jose 383:
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 385: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
386: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
387: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
388: </strong></font><br>
389: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
390: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
391: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
392: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
393: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
394: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
395: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
396: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
397: in the page tables."
398: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 402: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
403: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
404: </strong></font><br>
405: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
406: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
407: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
408: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 409: <p>
1.384 jose 410:
1.378 henning 411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 412: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
413: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 414: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
415: </strong></font><br>
416: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
417: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
418: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
419: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
420: (quote:
421: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
422: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 423: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 424: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
425: the other developers for their work on the system.
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 429: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
430: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
431: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 432: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 433: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
434: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
435: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
436: too.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 440: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
441: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 442: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 443: OpenBSD source code using
444: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
445: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
446: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
447: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
448: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
449: <p>
450: </ul>
451:
1.374 jose 452: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
453: <ul>
454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 455: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 456: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
457: </strong></font><br>
458: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
459: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
460: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
461: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
462: it."
463: <p>
464:
465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 466: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
467: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
468: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
469: </strong></font><br/>
470: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
471: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
472: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
473: <p>
474: </ul>
475:
1.369 ian 476: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
477: <ul>
478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 479: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
480: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
481: </strong></font><br/>
482: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
483: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
484: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
485: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 489: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
490: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
491: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
492: </strong></font><br/>
493: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
494: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
495: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
496: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
497: form factor.
498: <p>
499:
500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
501: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
502: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
503: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
504: Features</a>,
505: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
506: </strong></font><br/>
507: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
508: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
509: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
510: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
511: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
512: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
513: <p>
514: This article can also be found online at:
515: <ul>
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 517: <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 518: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
519: </strong></font>
520: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
521: </ul>
522: <p>
1.392 david 523:
1.371 jose 524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 525: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
526: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 527: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
528: </strong></font><br/>
529: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
530: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
531: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 532: <p>
1.371 jose 533:
534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 536: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 537: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 538: </strong></font><br/>
539: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
540: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
541: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
542: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
543: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
544: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
545: and its history with OpenBSD.
546: </ul>
547:
1.368 henning 548: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
549: <ul>
550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 551: [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 552: </strong></font><br>
553: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
554: </ul>
555:
1.364 jose 556: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
557: <ul>
558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 559: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
560: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
561: UNIX Review,
562: July, 2003.
563: </strong></font><br>
564: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
565: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
566: who want more information.
567: <p>
568:
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 570: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
571: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
572: Government Computer News,
573: July 22, 2003.
574: </strong></font><br>
575: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
576: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
577: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
578: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
579: <p>
580:
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
582: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
583: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
584: SANS Institute,
585: July 22, 2003.
586: </strong></font><br>
587: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 588: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 589: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
590: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
591: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
592: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
593: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
594: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
595: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
596: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
597: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
598: <p>
599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 601: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
602: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
603: OnLamp.com,
604: July 17, 2003.
605: </strong></font><br>
606: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
607: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
608: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
609: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
610: have been working on.
611:
612: </ul>
613:
1.356 jose 614: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 615: <ul>
616:
617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 618: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
619: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
620: UNIX Review,
621: June, 2003.
622: </strong></font><br>
623: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
624: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
625: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
626: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
627: <p>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 630: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
631: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
632: eWeek,
633: June 23, 2003.
634: </strong></font><br>
635: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
636: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
637: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
638: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
639: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
640: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
641: <p>
642:
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 644: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
645: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
646: Software Development Online,
647: June, 2003.
648: </strong></font><br>
649: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
650: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
651: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
652: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
653: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
654: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
655: current activities.
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 659: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
660: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 661: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
662: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
663: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
664: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 665: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 666: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
667: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
668: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 669: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 670: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
671: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 672: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 673: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
674: decisions.
675: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
676: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 677: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 678: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 679: <p>
680:
681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 682: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
683: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
684: Page 58, eWeek,
685: June 2, 2003.
686: </strong></font><br>
687: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
688: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
689: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
690: been addressed in -current.
691: <p>
692:
1.356 jose 693: </ul>
694:
695: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
696: <ul>
697:
1.355 jose 698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 699: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
700: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
701: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
702: </strong></font><br>
703: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
704: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
705: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
706: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
707: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
708: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
709: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
710: <p>
711:
712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 713: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
714: Beyond Linux</a>,
715: InfoWorld,
716: May 23, 2003.
717: </strong></font><br>
718: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
719: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
720: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
721: compared to the GPL.
722: <p>
723:
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 725: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
726: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
727: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 728: May 17, 2003.
729: </strong></font><br>
730: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
731: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
732: the business section and half of another page inside
733: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
734: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
735: in talking about the project's history and goals.
736: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
737: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
738: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
739: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 740: <br>
741: This article can also be found online at:
742: <ul>
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
744: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
745: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
746: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
747: May 17, 2003
748: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 749: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
751: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
752: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
753: Montreal Gazette,
754: May 21, 2003
755: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 756: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 757: <p>
1.346 ian 758:
759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 760: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 761: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 762: May 7, 2003.
763: </strong></font><br>
764: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
765: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
766: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 770: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
771: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
772: OsOpinion,
773: May 6, 2003.
774: </strong></font><br>
775: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
776: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
777: <br>
778: This article can also be found online at:
779: <ul>
780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
781: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
782: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
783: NewsFactor Network.
784: </strong></font>
785: </ul>
786: <p>
787:
788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 789: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 790: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
791: ITBusiness,
792: May 2, 2003.
793: </strong></font><br>
794: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
795: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
796: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
797: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 801: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
802: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
803: InfoWorld,
804: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 805: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 806: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
807: <br>
808: This article can also be found online at:
809: <ul>
810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
811: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
812: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
813: IDG Singapore.
814: </strong></font>
815: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 816: <p>
817:
1.339 jose 818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
819: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
820: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 821: ZDNet,
822: May 1, 2003.
823: </strong></font><br>
824: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 825: someone using parts from previous articles.
826: <br>
1.341 deraadt 827: This article can also be found online at:
828: <ul>
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
830: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
831: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
832: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 833: </strong></font>
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
835: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
836: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
837: CNET News.com.
838: </strong></font>
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
840: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
841: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
842: ZDNet UK.
843: </strong></font>
844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
845: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
846: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
847: Help Net Security, Croatia.
848: </strong></font>
849: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 850: <p>
1.339 jose 851:
1.341 deraadt 852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 853: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 854: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
855: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
856: May 1, 2003.
857: </strong></font><br>
858: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
859: that have been added
860: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
861: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
862: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 863: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 864: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
865: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
866: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 867: <p>
868:
869: </ul>
870:
1.253 ian 871: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
872: <ul>
1.255 ian 873:
1.260 ian 874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 875: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 876: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
877: TechRepublic,
878: April 28, 2003.
879: </strong></font><br>
880: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
881: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 882: work.<br>
883: Can also be found online at:
884: <ul>
885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
886: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
887: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
888: ZDNet UK.
889: </strong></font>
890: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 894: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
895: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
896: IDG,
897: April 24, 2003.
898: </strong></font><br>
899: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
900: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
901: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
902: Can also be found online at:
903: <ul>
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
905: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
906: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 907: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 908: </strong></font>
909: </ul>
910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
913: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 914: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 915: Slate,
916: April 24, 2003.
917: </strong></font><br>
918: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
919: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
920: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
921: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
922: <p>
923:
924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 925: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
926: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
927: April 24, 2003.
928: </strong></font><br>
929: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
930: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
931: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
932: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 936: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
937: April 24, 2003.
938: </strong></font><br>
939: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
940: the free software community".
941: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
942: other articles.
943: <p>
944:
945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 946: <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 947: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
948: </strong></font><br>
949: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
950: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
951: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
952: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
953: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
954: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
955: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 956: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 957: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
958: <br/>
959: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
960: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
961: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
962: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 963: <br>
964: Can also be found online at:
965: <ul>
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
967: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
968: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
969: Common Dreams NewsCenter
970: </strong></font>
971: </ul>
1.324 ian 972: <p>
973:
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
975: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
976: Wired, April 24, 2003.
977: </strong></font><br>
978: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
979: article above.
980: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
981: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
982: wasting them."
1.332 ian 983: <br>
984: Can also be found online at:
985: <ul>
986: <li>
987: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
988: </strong></font>
989: </ul>
1.324 ian 990: <p>
991:
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 993: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
994: </strong></font><br>
995: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
996: <p>
997:
998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 999: <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.
1000: </strong></font><br>
1001: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1002: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1006: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1007: April 23, 2003.
1008: </strong></font><br>
1009: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1010: <p>
1011:
1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1013: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1014: April 22, 2003.
1015: </strong></font><br>
1016: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1020: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1021: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1022: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1023: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1024: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1025: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1026: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1027: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1028: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1029: Can also be found online at:
1030: <ul>
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1032: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1033: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1034: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1035: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1037: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1038: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1039: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1040: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1041: </ul>
1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1045: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1046: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1047: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1048: </strong></font><br>
1049: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1050: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1051: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1052: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1053: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1054: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1055: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1056: <p>
1057:
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1059: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1060: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1061: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1062: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1063: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1064: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1065: at UPenn and DARPA.
1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1069: [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,
1070: France
1.315 deraadt 1071: April 18, 2003.
1072: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1073: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1074: <p>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1077: [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 1078: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1079: </strong></font><br>
1080: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1084: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1085: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1086: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1087: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1088: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1089: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1090: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1091: <p>
1092:
1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1094: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1095: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1096: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1097: </strong></font><br>
1098: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1099: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1100: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1101: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1105: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1106: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1107: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1108: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1109: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1110: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1111: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1112: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1113: Can also be found online at:
1114: <ul>
1115: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1116: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1117: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1118: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1119: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1120: <p>
1121:
1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1123: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1124: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1125: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1126: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1127: </strong></font><br>
1128: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1129: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1130: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1131: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1132: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1133:
1134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1135: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1136: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1137: New York Times.
1138: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1139:
1.273 deraadt 1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1141: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1142: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1143: ABC News.
1144: </strong></font>
1145:
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1147: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1148: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1149: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1150: </strong></font>
1151:
1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1153: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1154: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1155: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1156: </strong></font>
1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1159: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1160: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1161: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1162: </strong></font>
1163:
1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1165: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1166: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1167: Times Daily, AL.
1168: </strong></font>
1169:
1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1171: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1172: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1173: Boston.com, MA.
1174: </strong></font>
1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1177: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1178: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1179: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1180: </strong></font>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1183: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1184: [Article was pulled]</a>
1185: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1186: </strong></font>
1187:
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1189: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1190: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1191: Infoshop News.
1192: </strong></font>
1193:
1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1195: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1196: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1197: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1198: </strong></font>
1199:
1200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1201: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1202: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1203: Raleigh News, NC.
1204: </strong></font>
1205:
1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1207: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1208: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1209: Napa News, CA.
1210: </strong></font>
1211:
1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1213: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1214: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1215: NEPA News, PA.
1216: </strong></font>
1217:
1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1219: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1220: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1221: Wired News.
1222: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1223: <br>
1224: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1225: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1226: [JAPANESE]
1227: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1228: Wired News Japan</a>
1229: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1230:
1.271 deraadt 1231: </ul>
1232: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1233: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1234: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1235: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1236: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1237: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1238: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1239: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1240: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1241: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1242: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1243: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1244: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1245: <p>
1246: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1247:
1248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1249: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1250: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1251: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1252: </strong></font>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1255: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1256: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1257: Miami Herald, FL.
1258: </strong></font>
1259:
1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1261: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1262: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1263: </strong></font>
1264:
1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1266: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1267: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1268: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1269: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1270:
1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1272: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1273: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1274: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1275: ABC News.
1276: </strong></font>
1277:
1.276 deraadt 1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1279: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1280: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1281: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1282: </strong></font>
1283:
1.286 dhartmei 1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1285: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1286: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1287: Wilmington Star, NC.
1288: </strong></font>
1289:
1.300 jose 1290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1291: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1292: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1293: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1294: </strong></font>
1295:
1.309 jose 1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1297: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1298: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1299: Globe Technology.
1300: </strong></font>
1301:
1.263 deraadt 1302: </ul>
1.262 beck 1303: <p>
1304:
1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1306: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1307: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1308: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1309: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1310: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1311: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1312: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1313: <p>
1314:
1315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1316: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1317: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1318: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1319: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1320: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1321: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1322: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1323: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1324: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1325: and simply restates other press reports.
1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1329: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1330: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1331: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1332: </strong></font><br>
1333: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1334: <p>
1335:
1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1337: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1338: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1339: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1340: </strong></font><br>
1341: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1342: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1343: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1344: <p>
1345:
1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1347: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1348: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1349: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1350: April 17, 2003.
1351: </strong></font><br>
1352: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1353: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1354: Tech Anthems</a>
1355: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1356: 4 so far.
1357: <p>
1358:
1359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1360: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1361: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1362: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1363: </strong></font><br>
1364: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1365: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1366: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1367: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1368: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1369: Goes on to say:
1370: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1371: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1372: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1373: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1374: This article is also found online at:
1375: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1377: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1378: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1379: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1380: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1382: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1383: ZDnet</a>,
1384: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1385: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1387: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1388: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1389: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1390: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1391: </ul>
1.260 ian 1392: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1393:
1.260 ian 1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1395: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1396: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1397: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1398: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1399: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1400: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1401: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1402: without notice or justification.
1403: <p>
1404:
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1406: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1407: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1408: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1409: </strong></font><br>
1410: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1411: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1412: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1413: effective today, without any warning..."
1414: <p>
1.257 ian 1415:
1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1417: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1418: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1419: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1420: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1421: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1422: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1423: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1424: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1425: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1426: <p>
1427:
1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1429: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1430: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1431: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1432: </strong></font><br>
1433: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1434: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1435: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1436: quoting two of them:
1437: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1438: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1439: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1440: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1441: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1442: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.255 ian 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1446: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1447: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1448: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1449: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1450: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1451: <p>
1452:
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1454: [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 1455: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1456: </strong></font><br>
1457: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1458: <p>
1459:
1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1461: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1462: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1463: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1464: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1465: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1466: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1467: security experts for more than three decades."
1468: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1469: <p>
1.261 ian 1470:
1.254 drahn 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1472: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1473: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1474: </strong></font><br>
1475: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1476: <p>
1477:
1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1479: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1480: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1481: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1482: </strong></font><br>
1483: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1484: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1485: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1486: <p>
1487:
1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1489: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1490: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1491: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1492: </strong></font><br>
1493: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1494: from US DARPA.
1495: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1496: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1497: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1498: the BSD license.
1499: <p>
1500: </ul>
1501:
1.251 ian 1502: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1503: <ul>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1506: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1507: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1508: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1509: </strong></font><br>
1510:
1511: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1512: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1513: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1514: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1515: <p>
1516:
1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1519: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1520: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1521: </strong></font><br>
1522: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1523: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1524: Mentions
1525: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1526: and
1527: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1528: programs.
1529: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1530: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1531: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1532: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1533: <p>
1.325 ian 1534: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1535: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1536:
1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1538: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1539: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1540: </strong></font><br>
1541: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1542: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1543: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1544: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1545: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1546: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1547: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1548: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1549: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1550: put into service."
1551: <p>
1552: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1553: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1554: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1555: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1556: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1557: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1558: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1559: computers with security features."
1560: <p>
1.329 ian 1561:
1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1563: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1564: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1565: Slate,
1566: March 3, 2003.
1567: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1568: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1569: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1570: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1571: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1572: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1573: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1574: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1575: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1576: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1577: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1578: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1579: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1580: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1581: of more secure open-source solutions like
1582: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1583: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1584: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1585: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1586: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1587: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1588: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1589: the Beltway."
1590: <p>
1.251 ian 1591: </ul>
1592:
1.249 jufi 1593: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1594: <ul>
1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1596: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1597: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1598: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1599: </strong></font><br>
1600: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1601: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1602: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1603: <p>
1.334 ian 1604:
1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1606: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1607: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1608: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1611: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1612: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1613: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1614: "... the hypothetical question ...
1615: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1616: <br>
1617: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1618: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1619: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1620: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1621: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1622: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1623: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1624: support network security.
1625: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1626: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1627: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1628: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1629: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1630: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1631: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1632: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1633: <br>
1634: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1635: <p>
1636:
1.249 jufi 1637: </ul>
1638:
1.246 jufi 1639: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1640: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1641:
1.247 jufi 1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1643: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1644: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1645: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1646: </strong></font><br>
1647: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1648: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1649: <p>
1650:
1.247 jufi 1651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1652: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1653: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1654: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1657: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1661: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1662: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1663: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1664: </strong></font><br>
1665: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1666: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1667: <p>
1.247 jufi 1668: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1669:
1.244 jufi 1670: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1671: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1672:
1.247 jufi 1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1674: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1675: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1676: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1677: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1678: </strong></font><br>
1679: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1680: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1681: md5 digests.
1682: <p>
1683:
1.247 jufi 1684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1685: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1686: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1687: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1688: </strong></font><br>
1689: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1690: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1691: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1692: right the first time."
1693: <p>
1.247 jufi 1694: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1695:
1696:
1697: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1698: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1699:
1.247 jufi 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1701: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1702: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1703: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1704: </strong></font><br>
1705: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1706: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1707: part 6</a>.
1708: <p>
1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1711: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1712: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1713: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1714: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1715: </strong></font><br>
1716: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1717: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1718: <p>
1.301 jose 1719:
1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1721: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1722: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1723: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1724: </strong></font><br>
1725:
1726: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1727: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1728: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1729: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1730: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1731: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1732: <i>Here's the
1733: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1734: <p>
1.247 jufi 1735: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1736:
1737: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1738: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1739:
1.247 jufi 1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1741: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1742: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1743: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1746: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1750: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1751: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1752: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1753: </strong></font><br>
1754: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1755: this time using pf.
1756: <p>
1.247 jufi 1757: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1758:
1759: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1760: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1761:
1.247 jufi 1762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1763: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1764: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1765: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1766: </strong></font><br>
1767: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1768: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1769: their rotation.
1770: <p>
1771:
1.247 jufi 1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1773: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1774: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1775: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1776: </strong></font><br>
1777: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1778: <p>
1.247 jufi 1779: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1780:
1.239 jufi 1781: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1782: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1783:
1.247 jufi 1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1785: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1786: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1787: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1788: </strong></font><br>
1789: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1790: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1791: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1792: <p>
1793:
1.247 jufi 1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1795: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1796: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1797: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1798: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1799: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1800: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1801: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1802: <p>
1.247 jufi 1803: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1804:
1.235 lebel 1805: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1806: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1807:
1.239 jufi 1808:
1.247 jufi 1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1810: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1811: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1812: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1813: </strong></font><br>
1814: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1815: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1816: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1817: <p>
1.301 jose 1818:
1.247 jufi 1819: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1820:
1.228 horacio 1821: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1822: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1823:
1.247 jufi 1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1825: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1826: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1827: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1828: </strong></font><br>
1829: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1830: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1831: <p>
1832:
1.247 jufi 1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1834: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1835: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1836: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1837: </strong></font><br>
1838: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1839: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1840: <p>
1841:
1.247 jufi 1842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1843: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1844: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1845: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1846: </strong></font><br>
1847: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1848: on the desktop of his parents.
1849: <p>
1850:
1.247 jufi 1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1852: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1853: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1854: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1855: </strong></font><br>
1856: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1857: using IPFilter.
1858:
1859: <p>
1860:
1.247 jufi 1861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1862: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1863: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1864: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1865: </strong></font><br>
1866: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1867: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1868: perspectives of the four OS.
1869: <br>
1870: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1871: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1872: <p>
1873:
1.247 jufi 1874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1875: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1876: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1877: software and security</a>,
1878: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1879: </strong></font><br>
1880:
1881: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1882: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1883: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1884: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1885: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1886: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1887: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1888: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1889: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1890: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1891: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1892: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1893: <p>
1.247 jufi 1894: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1895:
1.225 horacio 1896: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1897: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1898:
1.247 jufi 1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1900: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1901: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1902: Interview</a>,
1903: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1904: </strong></font><br>
1905:
1906: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1907: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1908: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1909: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1910: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1911: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1912: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1913: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1914: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1915: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1916: of choice.
1917: <p>
1.247 jufi 1918: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1919:
1920: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1921: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1922:
1.247 jufi 1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1924: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1925: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1926: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1927: </strong></font><br>
1928:
1929: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1930: <p>
1931:
1.247 jufi 1932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1933: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1934: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1935: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1936: </strong></font><br>
1937:
1938: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1939: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1940: <p>
1.247 jufi 1941: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1942:
1.218 horacio 1943: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1944: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1945:
1.247 jufi 1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1947: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1948: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1949: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1950: </strong></font><br>
1951:
1952: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1953: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1954: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1955: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1956: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1957: subjects. Worth a read.
1958: <p>
1959:
1960:
1.247 jufi 1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1962: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1963: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1964: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1965: </strong></font><br>
1966:
1967: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1968: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1969: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1970: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1971: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1972: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1973: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1974: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1975: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1976: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1977: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1978: on other operating systems.<br>
1979: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1980: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1981: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1982: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1983: <p>
1984:
1.247 jufi 1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1986: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1987: Operating System 2010</a>,
1988: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1989: </strong></font><br>
1990:
1991: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1992: covering the level of software integration into the core
1993: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1994: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1995: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1996: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1997: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1998: <p>
1999:
1.247 jufi 2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2001: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2002: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2003: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2004: </strong></font><br>
2005:
2006: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2007: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2008: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2009: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2010: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2011: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2012: <p>
1.247 jufi 2013: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2014:
1.210 jufi 2015: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2016: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2017:
1.247 jufi 2018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2019: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2020: Already a Contender</a>,
2021: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2022: </strong></font><br>
2023:
2024: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2025: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2026: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2027: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2028: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2029: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2030: <p>
2031:
1.247 jufi 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2033: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2034: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2035: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2036: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2037:
1.224 horacio 2038: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2039: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2040: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2041: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2042: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2043: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2044: <p>
1.247 jufi 2045: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2046:
2047: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2048: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2051: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2052: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2053: Division</a>,
2054: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2055: </strong></font><br>
2056:
2057: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2058: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2059: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2060: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2061: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2062: investment</em>.<br>
2063: The implementation details can be seen on their
2064: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2065: <p>
2066:
1.247 jufi 2067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2068: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2069: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2070: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2071: </strong></font><br>
2072:
2073: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2074: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2075: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2076: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2077: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2078: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2079: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2080: <p>
2081:
2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2083: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2084: Thinking about Security</a>,
2085: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2086: </strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2089: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2090: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2091: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2092: to time.<br>
2093: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2094: system and just the most secure system.
2095: <p>
2096:
1.247 jufi 2097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2098: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2099: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2100: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2101: </strong></font><br>
2102:
2103: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2104: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2105: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2106: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2107: choice:<br>
2108: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2109: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2110: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2111: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2112: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2113: network security devices and as such must be well
2114: armored."</em><br>
2115: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2116: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2117: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2118: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2119: <br>
2120: Bravo!
2121: <p>
1.247 jufi 2122: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2123:
1.207 ian 2124: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2125: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2126:
1.247 jufi 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2128: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2129: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2130: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2131:
1.207 ian 2132: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2133: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2134: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2135: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2136: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2137: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2138: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2139: <p>
1.247 jufi 2140: </ul>
1.207 ian 2141:
1.194 jufi 2142: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2143: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2146: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2147: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2148: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2149: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2150:
1.240 miod 2151: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2152: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2153: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2154: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2155: <p>
2156:
1.247 jufi 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2158: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2159: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2160: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2161:
2162: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2163: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2164: <p>
2165:
2166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2167: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2168: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2169: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2170:
2171: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2172: <p>
2173:
2174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2175: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2176: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2177: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2178: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2179:
1.240 miod 2180: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2181: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2182: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2183: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2184: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2185: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2186: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2187: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2188: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2189: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2190: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2191: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2192: <p>
2193:
1.247 jufi 2194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2195: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2196: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2197: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2198: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2199:
1.194 jufi 2200: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2201: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2202: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2203: <br>
2204: The new
2205: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2206: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2207: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2208: <p>
1.247 jufi 2209: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2210:
1.190 horacio 2211: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2212: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2213:
1.247 jufi 2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2215:
2216: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2217: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2218:
1.301 jose 2219:
1.191 jufi 2220: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2221: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2222:
2223: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2224: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2225:
1.212 horacio 2226: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2227: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2228: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2229:
1.211 horacio 2230: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2231: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2232: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2233:
1.247 jufi 2234: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2235: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2238: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2239:
1.212 horacio 2240: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2241: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2242: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2243:
2244: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2245: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2246:
2247: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2248: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2249:
1.301 jose 2250: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2251: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2252:
1.191 jufi 2253: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2254: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2255:
2256: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2257: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2258:
1.192 jufi 2259: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2260: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2261: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2262:
1.193 deraadt 2263: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2264: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2265: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2266:
1.247 jufi 2267: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2268: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2271: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2272: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2273:
1.213 horacio 2274: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2275: 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 2276: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2277:
1.190 horacio 2278: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2279: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2280: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2281: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2282: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2283: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2284: <p>
1.190 horacio 2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2287: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2288: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2289: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2290: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2291:
1.195 jufi 2292: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2293: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2294: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2295: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2296: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2297: <p>
2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2300: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2301: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2302: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2303: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2304:
1.191 jufi 2305: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2306: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2307: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2308: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2309: <p>
2310:
2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2312: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2313: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2314: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2315:
2316: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2317: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2318: <p>
1.247 jufi 2319: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2320:
1.191 jufi 2321:
1.186 jufi 2322: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2323: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2326: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2327: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2328: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2329: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2330:
1.188 jufi 2331: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2332: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2333: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2334: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2335: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2336: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2337: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2338: <p>
2339:
1.301 jose 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2341: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2342: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2343: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2344:
2345: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2346: <p>
1.191 jufi 2347:
1.247 jufi 2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2349: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2350: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2351: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2352: </strong></font><br>
2353:
2354: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2355: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2356: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2357: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2358: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2359: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2360: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2361: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2362: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2363: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2364: familiar?
2365: <p>
1.247 jufi 2366: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2367:
1.178 louis 2368: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2369: <ul>
1.178 louis 2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2372: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2373: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2374: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2375: </strong></font><br>
2376:
2377: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2378: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2379: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2380: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2381: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2382: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2383: <p>
2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2386: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2387: Open source under the hood</a>,
2388: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2389: </strong></font><br>
2390:
2391: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2392: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2393: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2394: <p>
2395:
1.247 jufi 2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2397: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2398: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2399: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2400: </strong></font><br>
2401:
2402: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2403: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2404: <p>
1.247 jufi 2405: </ul>
1.179 louis 2406:
1.174 louis 2407:
1.175 louis 2408: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2409: <ul>
1.175 louis 2410:
1.247 jufi 2411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2412: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2413: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2414: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2415: </strong></font><br>
2416:
2417: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2418: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2419: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2420: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2421: <p>
2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2424: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2425: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2426: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
2429: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2430: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2431: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2432: <p>
1.247 jufi 2433: </ul>
1.175 louis 2434:
1.176 louis 2435:
1.172 mickey 2436: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2437: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2440: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2441: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2442: </strong></font><br>
2443:
2444: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2445: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2446: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2447: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2448: <p>
2449:
1.247 jufi 2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2451: <a
1.269 deraadt 2452: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2453: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2454: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2455: </strong></font><br>
2456:
2457: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2458: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2459: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2460: <p>
2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2463: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2464: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2465: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2466: </strong></font><br>
2467:
2468: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2469: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2470: <p>
2471:
1.247 jufi 2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2473: <a
1.269 deraadt 2474: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2475: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2476: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2477: </strong></font><br>
2478:
2479: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2480: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2481: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2482: our own Theo de Raadt.
2483: <p>
2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2486: <a
1.269 deraadt 2487: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2488: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2489: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2490: </strong></font><br>
2491:
2492: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2493: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2494: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2495: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2496: shut down.]
2497: <p>
2498:
1.247 jufi 2499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2500: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2501: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2502: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2503: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2504: </strong></font><br>
2505:
2506: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2507: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2508: <p>
1.247 jufi 2509: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2510:
1.161 louis 2511: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2512: <ul>
1.161 louis 2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2515: <a
1.269 deraadt 2516: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2517: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2518: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2519: </strong></font><br>
2520:
2521: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2522: by John Wolley
2523: <p>
2524:
1.247 jufi 2525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2526: <a
1.269 deraadt 2527: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2528: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2529: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2530: </strong></font><br>
2531:
2532: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2533: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2534: OpenBSD).
2535: <p>
2536:
1.247 jufi 2537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2538: <a
1.247 jufi 2539: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2540: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2541: </strong></font><br>
2542:
2543: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2544: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2545: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2546: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2547: and hindsight.
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2551: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2552: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2553: </strong></font><br>
2554:
2555: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2556: <p>
2557:
1.247 jufi 2558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2559: <a
1.168 provos 2560: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2561: December 7, 2000
2562: </strong></font><br>
2563:
2564: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2565: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2566: us explain.
2567: <p>
2568:
1.247 jufi 2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2570: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2571: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2572: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2573: December 6, 2000
2574: </strong></font><br>
2575:
2576: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2577: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2578: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2579: <p>
2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2582: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2583: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2584: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2585: </strong></font><br>
2586:
2587: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2588: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2589: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2590: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2591: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2592: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2593: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2594: <p>
2595:
2596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2597: <a
1.226 horacio 2598: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2599: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2600: </strong></font><br>
2601:
2602: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2603: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2604: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2605: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2606: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2607: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2608: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2609: <p>
1.162 millert 2610:
1.247 jufi 2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2612: <a
1.161 louis 2613: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2614: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2615: </strong></font><br>
2616:
2617: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2618: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2619: <p>
2620:
1.247 jufi 2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2622: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2623: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2624: </strong></font><br>
2625:
2626: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2627: <p>
2628:
2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2631: <a
1.226 horacio 2632: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2633: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2634: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2635: </strong></font><br>
2636:
2637: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2638: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2639: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2640: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2641: <p>
1.247 jufi 2642: </ul>
1.169 louis 2643:
1.158 louis 2644: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2645: <ul>
1.147 louis 2646:
1.247 jufi 2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2648: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2649: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2650: </strong></font><br>
2651:
2652: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2653: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2654: <p>
2655:
1.247 jufi 2656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2657: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2658: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2659: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2660: </strong></font><br>
2661: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2662: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2663: <p>
2664:
1.247 jufi 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2666: <a
2667: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2668: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2669: </strong></font><br>
2670:
2671: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2672: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2673: <p>
2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2676: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2677: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2678: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2679:
1.213 horacio 2680: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2681: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2682: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2683: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2684: <p>
1.215 horacio 2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2687: <a
2688: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2689: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2690: </strong></font><br>
2691:
2692: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2693: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2694: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2695: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2696: much of the attitude too).
2697: <p>
1.161 louis 2698:
1.247 jufi 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2700: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2701: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2702: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2703:
1.157 louis 2704: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2705: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2706: <p>
1.247 jufi 2707: </ul>
1.157 louis 2708:
2709: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2710: <ul>
1.157 louis 2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2713: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2714: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2715: </strong></font><br>
2716:
2717: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2718: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2719: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2720: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2721: <p>
2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2724: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2725: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2726: </strong></font><br>
2727:
2728: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2729: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2730: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2731: it because they love coding...
2732: <p>
2733:
1.247 jufi 2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2735: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2736: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2737: </strong></font><br>
2738:
2739: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2740: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2741: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2742: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2743: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2744: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2745: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2746: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2747: <p>
2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2750: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2751: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2752: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2753: </strong></font><br>
2754:
2755: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2756: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2757: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2758: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2759: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2760: the pizza.
2761: <p>
2762:
1.247 jufi 2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2764: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2765: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2766: </strong></font><br>
2767:
2768: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2769: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2770: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2771: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2772: problems.
2773: <p>
2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2776: <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 2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
1.222 miod 2779: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2780: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2781: - whether they like it or not.
2782: <p>
2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2785: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2786: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2787: </strong></font><br>
2788:
2789: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2790: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2791: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2792: <p>
1.148 aaron 2793:
1.247 jufi 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2795: <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 2796: </strong></font><br>
2797:
2798: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2799: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2800: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2801: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2802: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2803: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2804: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2805: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2806: <p>
2807:
1.247 jufi 2808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2809: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2810: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2811: </strong></font><br>
2812:
2813: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2814: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 2815: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2816: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2817: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2818: <p>
1.247 jufi 2819: </ul>
1.147 louis 2820:
1.138 louis 2821: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2822: <ul>
1.138 louis 2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2825: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2826: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2827: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2828: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2829: </strong></font><br>
2830:
1.227 horacio 2831: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2832: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2833: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2834: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2835: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2836: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2837: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2838: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2839: <p>
2840:
1.247 jufi 2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2842: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2843: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2844: </strong></font><br>
2845:
2846: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2847: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2848: groups, and even Linux.
2849: <p>
2850:
1.247 jufi 2851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2852: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2853: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2854: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2855: </strong></font><br>
2856:
2857: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2858: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2859: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2860: library after installing the OS.
2861: <p>
2862:
1.247 jufi 2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2864: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2865: Sys Admin, September 2000
2866: </strong></font><br>
2867:
2868: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2869: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2870: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2871: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2872: (<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>,
2873: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2874: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2875: <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 2876: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2877: out of the system.
2878: <p>
2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2881: <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
2882: </strong></font><br>
2883:
2884: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 2885: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 2886: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2887: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2888: the IP filtering and address translation.
2889: <p>
1.301 jose 2890:
2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2892: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2893: </strong></font><br>
2894:
2895: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2896: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2897: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2898: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2899: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2900: <p>
1.247 jufi 2901: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2902:
1.131 louis 2903: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2904: <ul>
1.131 louis 2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2907: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2908: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2909: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2910: </strong></font><br>
2911:
2912: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2913: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2914: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2915: <p>
2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2918: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2919: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2920: </strong></font><br>
2921:
2922: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2923: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2924: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2925: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2926: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2927: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2928: note of"</i>.
2929: <p>
2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2932: <a
1.247 jufi 2933: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2934: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2935: </strong></font><br>
2936:
2937: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2938: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2939: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2940: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2941: <p>
2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2944: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2945: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2949: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2950: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2951: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2952: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2953: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2954: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2955: <p>
2956:
1.247 jufi 2957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2958: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2959: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2960: 2000
2961: </strong></font><br>
2962:
2963: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2964: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2965: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2966: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2967: against current industry practices.
2968: <p>
2969:
1.247 jufi 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2971: <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
2972: </strong></font><br>
2973:
2974: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2975: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2976: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2977: <p>
2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2980: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2981: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2982: </strong></font><br>
2983:
2984: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2985: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2986: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2987: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2988: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2989: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2990: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2991: <p>
2992:
1.247 jufi 2993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2994: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2995: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2996: </strong></font><br>
2997:
2998: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2999: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3000: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3001: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3002: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3003: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3004: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3005: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3006: <p>
1.247 jufi 3007: </ul>
1.131 louis 3008:
1.118 louis 3009: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3010: <ul>
1.118 louis 3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3013: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3014: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3015: </strong></font><br>
3016:
3017: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3018: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3019: about time. The article mentions that
3020: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3021: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3022: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3023: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3024: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3025: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3026: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3027: <p>
3028:
1.247 jufi 3029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3030: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3031: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3032: </strong></font><br>
3033:
3034: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3035: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3036: of OpenSSH.
3037: <p>
3038:
1.247 jufi 3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3040: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3041: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3045: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3046: bridging.
3047: <p>
3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3050: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3051: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3052: </strong></font><br>
3053:
1.121 deraadt 3054: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3055: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3056: <p>
3057:
1.247 jufi 3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3059: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3060: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3061: </strong></font><br>
3062:
3063: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3064: <p>
3065:
1.247 jufi 3066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3067: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3068: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3069: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3070: </strong></font><br>
3071:
1.120 deraadt 3072: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3073: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3074: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3075: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3076: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3077: <p>
3078:
1.247 jufi 3079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3080: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3081: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3082: </strong></font><br>
3083:
1.222 miod 3084: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3085: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3086: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3087: protocols and their quirks.
3088: <p>
3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3091: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3092: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3093: </strong></font><br>
3094:
3095: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3096: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3097: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3098: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3099: <p>
3100:
1.247 jufi 3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3102: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3103: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3104: </strong></font><br>
3105:
3106: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3107: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3108: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3109: <p>
3110:
1.247 jufi 3111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3112: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3113: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3114: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3115: </strong></font><br>
3116:
3117: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3118: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3119: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3120: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3121: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3122: <p>
1.247 jufi 3123: </ul>
1.118 louis 3124:
1.104 louis 3125: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3126: <ul>
1.104 louis 3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3129: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3130: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3131: </strong></font><br>
3132:
3133: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3134: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3135: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3136: be a bit dry.
3137: <p>
3138:
1.247 jufi 3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3140: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3141: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3142: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3143: </strong></font><br>
3144: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3145: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3146: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3147: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3148: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3149: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3150: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3151: <p>
3152:
1.247 jufi 3153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3154: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3155: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3156: 2000
1.128 louis 3157: </strong></font><br>
3158:
3159: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3160: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3161: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3162: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3163: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3164: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3165: <p>
3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3168: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3169: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3170: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3171:
3172: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3173: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3174: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3175: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3176: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3177: <p>
1.110 louis 3178:
1.247 jufi 3179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3180: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3181: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3182: </strong></font><br>
3183:
3184: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3185: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3186: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3187: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3188: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3189: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3190: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3191: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3192: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3193: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3194: <p>
3195:
1.247 jufi 3196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3197: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3198: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3199:
3200: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3201: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3202: <p>
1.108 louis 3203:
1.247 jufi 3204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3205: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3206: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3207: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3208:
3209: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3210: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3211: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3212: <p>
1.106 louis 3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3215: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3216: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3217: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3218:
3219: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3220: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3221: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3222: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3223: <p>
1.107 louis 3224:
1.247 jufi 3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3226: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3227: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3228: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3229:
3230: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3231: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3232: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3233: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3234: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3235: <p>
1.105 louis 3236:
1.247 jufi 3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3238: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3239: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3240: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3241:
1.113 naddy 3242: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3243: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3244: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3245: <p>
1.104 louis 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3248: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3249: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3250: </strong></font><br>
3251:
3252: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3253: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3254: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3255: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3256: <p>
1.301 jose 3257:
3258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3259: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3260: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3261: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3262:
3263: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3264: hardware-supported cryptography.
3265: <p>
1.247 jufi 3266: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3267:
1.85 louis 3268: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3269: <ul>
1.85 louis 3270:
1.247 jufi 3271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3272: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3273: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3274: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3275:
3276: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3277: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3278: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3279: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3280: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3281: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3282: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3283: <p>
1.99 louis 3284:
1.247 jufi 3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3286: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3287: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3289:
3290: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3291: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3292: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3293: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3294: <p>
1.100 louis 3295:
1.247 jufi 3296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3297: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3298: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3299: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3300:
3301: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3302: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3303: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3304: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3305: <p>
1.95 louis 3306:
1.247 jufi 3307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3308: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3309: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3310: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3311:
3312: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3313: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3314: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3315: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3316: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3317: <p>
1.92 louis 3318:
1.247 jufi 3319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3320: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3321: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3322: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3323:
3324: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3325: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3326: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3327: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3328: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3329: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3330: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3331: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3332: <p>
1.91 louis 3333:
1.247 jufi 3334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3335: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3336: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3337: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3338:
3339: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3340: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3341: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3342: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3343: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3344: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3345: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3346: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3347: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3348: <p>
1.90 louis 3349:
1.247 jufi 3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3351: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3352: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3353: </strong></font><br>
3354: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3355: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3356: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3357: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3358: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3359: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3360: <p>
3361:
1.247 jufi 3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3363: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3364: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3365: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3366:
1.113 naddy 3367: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3368: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3369: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3370: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3371: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3372: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3373: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3374: <p>
1.87 louis 3375:
1.247 jufi 3376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3377: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3378: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3379: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3380:
3381: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3382: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3383: <p>
1.85 louis 3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3386: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3387: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3388: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3389:
3390: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3391: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3392: <p>
3393:
3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3395: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3396: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3397: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3398:
3399: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3400: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3401: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3402: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3403: <p>
1.89 louis 3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3406: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3407: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3408: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3409:
3410: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3411: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3412: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3413: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3414: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3415: </ul>
1.85 louis 3416:
1.78 deraadt 3417: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3418: <ul>
1.74 louis 3419:
1.247 jufi 3420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3421: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3422: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3423: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3424: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3425:
3426: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3427: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3428: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3429: <p>
1.83 louis 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3432: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3433: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3434: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3435:
3436: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3437: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3438: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3439: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3440: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3441: <p>
1.93 louis 3442:
1.247 jufi 3443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3444: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3445: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3446: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3447: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3448:
1.83 louis 3449: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3450: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3451: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3452: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3453: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3454: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3455: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3456: <p>
1.82 aaron 3457:
1.247 jufi 3458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3459: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3460: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3461: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3462:
1.83 louis 3463: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3464: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3465: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3466: <p>
1.80 louis 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3469: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3470: Bad Press</a>,
3471: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3472: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3473:
3474: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3475: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3476: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3477: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3478: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3479: <p>
1.247 jufi 3480: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3481:
3482: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3483: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3486: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3487: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3488: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3489: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3490:
3491: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3492: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3493: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3494: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3495: <p>
1.74 louis 3496:
1.247 jufi 3497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3498: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3499: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3500: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3501:
1.219 horacio 3502: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3503: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3504: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3505: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3506: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3507: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3508: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3509: <p>
1.88 louis 3510:
1.247 jufi 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3512: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3513: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3514: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3515:
3516: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3517: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3518: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3519: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3520: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3521: <p>
1.81 louis 3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3524: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3525: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3526: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3527:
3528: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3529: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3530: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3531: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3532: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3533: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3534: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3535: <p>
1.90 louis 3536:
1.247 jufi 3537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3538: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3539: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3540: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3541:
3542: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3543: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3544: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3545: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3546: <p>
1.247 jufi 3547: </ul>
1.71 louis 3548:
1.69 deraadt 3549: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3550: <ul>
1.70 louis 3551:
1.247 jufi 3552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3553: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3554: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3555: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3556:
3557: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3558: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3559: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3560: <p>
1.70 louis 3561:
1.247 jufi 3562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3563: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3564: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3565: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3566:
3567: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3568: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3569: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3570: <p>
1.68 louis 3571:
1.247 jufi 3572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3573: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3574: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3575: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3576: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3577:
1.111 jufi 3578: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3579: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3580: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3581: "secure by default" installation.
3582: <p>
1.64 louis 3583:
1.247 jufi 3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3585: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3586: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3587: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3588:
1.113 naddy 3589: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3590: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3591: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3592: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3593: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3594: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3595: <p>
1.66 louis 3596:
1.247 jufi 3597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3598: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3599: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3600: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3601:
3602: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3603: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3604: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3605: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3606: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3607: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3608: <p>
1.83 louis 3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3611: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3612: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3613: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3614:
3615: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3616: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3617: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3618: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3619: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3620: <p>
1.64 louis 3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3623: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3624: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3625: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3626:
3627: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3628: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3629: <p>
1.301 jose 3630:
3631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3632: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3633: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3634: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3635: </strong></font><br>
3636:
3637: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3638: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3639: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3640: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3641: Giving way to
3642: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3643: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3644: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3645: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3646: <p>
1.247 jufi 3647: </ul>
1.65 louis 3648:
1.69 deraadt 3649: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3650: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3653: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3654: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3655: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3656:
3657: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3658: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3659: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3660: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3661: <p>
1.88 louis 3662:
1.247 jufi 3663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3664: <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 3665: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3666:
3667: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3668: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3669: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3670: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3671: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.60 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3675: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3676: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3677: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3678: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3679:
3680: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3681: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3682: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3683: <p>
1.58 louis 3684:
1.247 jufi 3685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3686: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3687: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3688:
3689: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3690: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3691: <p>
1.53 louis 3692:
1.247 jufi 3693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3694: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3695: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3696: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3697:
3698: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3699: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3700: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3701: <p>
1.99 louis 3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3704: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3705: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3706:
3707: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3708: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3709: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3710: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3711: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3712:
1.247 jufi 3713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3714: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3715: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3716: </strong></font><br>
3717:
3718: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3719: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3720: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3721: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3722: <p>
3723:
1.247 jufi 3724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3725: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3726: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3727: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3728:
3729: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3730: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3731: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3732:
1.247 jufi 3733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3734: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3735: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3736:
3737: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3738: in
1.247 jufi 3739: <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 3740: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3741: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3742: <p>
1.53 louis 3743:
1.247 jufi 3744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3745: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3746: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3747: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3748: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3749:
1.58 louis 3750: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3751: <p>
1.301 jose 3752:
3753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3754: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3755: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3756: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3757: Informacyjny, January 2000
3758: </strong></font><br>
3759:
3760: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3761: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3762: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3763: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3764: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3765: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3766: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3767: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3768: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3769: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3770: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3771: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3772: <p>
3773:
3774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3775: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3776: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3777: </strong></font><br>
3778:
3779: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3780: <p>
3781: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3782:
1.69 deraadt 3783: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3784: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3785:
1.247 jufi 3786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3787: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3788: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3789: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3790: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3791:
1.58 louis 3792: Kurt Seifried
3793: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3794: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3795: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3796: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3797:
1.247 jufi 3798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3799: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3800: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3801: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3802:
3803: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3804: <p>
1.96 louis 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3807: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3808: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3809: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3810: </strong></font><br>
3811:
3812: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3813: <p>
3814:
3815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3816: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3817: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3818: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3819:
3820: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3821: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3822: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3823: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3824: <p>
1.247 jufi 3825: </ul>
1.86 louis 3826:
1.69 deraadt 3827: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3828: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3829:
1.247 jufi 3830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3831: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3832: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3833: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3834:
3835: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3836: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3837: <p>
1.61 louis 3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3840: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3841: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3842: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3843: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3844:
3845: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3846: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3847: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3848: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3849: right -- or at least strives to".
3850: <p>
1.48 louis 3851:
1.247 jufi 3852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3853: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3854: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3855: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3856: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3857: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3858: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3859: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3860: <p>
1.61 louis 3861:
1.247 jufi 3862: <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 3863: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3864: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3865:
3866: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3867: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3868: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3869: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3870: <p>
1.46 louis 3871:
1.247 jufi 3872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3873: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3874: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3875: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3876:
3877: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3878: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3879: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3880:
1.247 jufi 3881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3882: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3883: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3884: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3885:
3886: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3887: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3888: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3889: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3890: <p>
1.247 jufi 3891: </ul>
1.70 louis 3892:
1.69 deraadt 3893: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3894: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3895:
1.247 jufi 3896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3897: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3898: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3899: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3900: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3901:
3902: Kurt Seifried
3903: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3904: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3905: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3906: <p>
1.44 philen 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <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 3909: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3910: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3911:
3912: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3913: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <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 3916: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3917: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3918:
3919: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3920: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3921:
1.247 jufi 3922: <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 3923: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3924: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3925:
3926: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3927: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3928: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3929: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3930: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3931:
1.247 jufi 3932: <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 3933: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3934: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3935:
1.36 louis 3936: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3937: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3938:
1.247 jufi 3939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3940: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3941: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3942: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3943:
3944: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3945: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3946: </ul>
1.38 louis 3947:
1.69 deraadt 3948: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3949: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <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 3952: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3953: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3954:
3955: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3956: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3957: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3958:
1.113 naddy 3959: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3960: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3961: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3962: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3963:
3964: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3965: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3966: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3967: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3968: <blockquote>
3969: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3970: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3971: <br>
3972: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3973: </code>
3974: </blockquote>
3975: <p>
3976:
1.247 jufi 3977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3978: <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 3979: <p>
3980:
3981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3982: <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 3983: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3984:
3985: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3986: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3987: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3988: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3991: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3992: Sept. 28, 1999
3993: </strong></font><br>
3994:
3995: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3996: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3997: translating and reprinting articles from
3998: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3999: <p>
4000:
4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4002: <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 4003: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4004:
4005: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4006: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4007: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4008: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4009: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4010: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4011: <p>
1.19 louis 4012:
1.113 naddy 4013: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4014: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4015: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4016:
4017: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4018: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4019: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4020: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4021: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4022: <p>
1.16 louis 4023:
1.247 jufi 4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4025: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4026: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4027: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4028:
1.57 louis 4029: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4030: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4031: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4032: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4033:
1.247 jufi 4034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4035: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4036: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4037: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4038:
1.113 naddy 4039: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4042: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4043: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4044: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4045:
1.23 louis 4046: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4047: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4048: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4049: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4050: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4051: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4052:
1.247 jufi 4053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4054: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4055: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4056: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4057:
1.199 pvalchev 4058: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4059: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4060: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4061: installation.
1.113 naddy 4062: <p>
1.47 louis 4063:
1.247 jufi 4064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4065: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4066: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4067: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4068:
1.301 jose 4069: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4070: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4071: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4072: </ul>
1.57 louis 4073:
1.69 deraadt 4074: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4075: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4078: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4079: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4080: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4081:
4082: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4083: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4084: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4085: <p>
1.12 louis 4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4088: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4089: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4090: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4091:
4092: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4093: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4094: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4095: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4096: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4097: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4098: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4099: <p>
1.247 jufi 4100: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4101:
1.69 deraadt 4102: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4103: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4104:
1.247 jufi 4105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4106: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4107: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4108:
4109: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4110: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4111: available."
1.113 naddy 4112: <p>
1.301 jose 4113:
4114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4115: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4116: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4117: </strong></font><br>
4118:
4119: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4120: <p>
1.247 jufi 4121: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4122:
1.69 deraadt 4123: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4124: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4125:
1.247 jufi 4126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4127: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4128: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4129:
4130: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4131: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4132: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4133: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4134: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4135: <p>
1.33 louis 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4138: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4139: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4140: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4141:
1.113 naddy 4142: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4143: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4144: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4145: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4146: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4147: <p>
1.247 jufi 4148: </ul>
1.57 louis 4149:
1.69 deraadt 4150: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4151: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4154: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4155: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4156: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4157:
4158: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4159: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4160: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4161:
1.247 jufi 4162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4163: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4164: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4165: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4166: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4167:
4168: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4169: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4172: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4173:
1.113 naddy 4174: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4175:
1.247 jufi 4176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4177: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4178: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4179: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4180:
4181: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4182: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4183: </ul>
1.23 louis 4184:
1.69 deraadt 4185: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4186: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4187:
1.247 jufi 4188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4189: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4190: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4191:
4192: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4193: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4194: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4195:
1.247 jufi 4196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4197: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4198: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4199: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4200:
4201: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4202: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4203: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4204: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4205: </ul>
1.57 louis 4206:
1.69 deraadt 4207: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4208: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4209:
1.247 jufi 4210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4211: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4212: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4213: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4214:
4215: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4216: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4217: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4218: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4219: <p>
1.15 louis 4220:
1.247 jufi 4221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4222: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4223: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4224: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4225:
4226: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4227: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4228: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4229: columns."
1.113 naddy 4230: <p>
1.247 jufi 4231: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4232:
1.69 deraadt 4233: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4234: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4235:
1.247 jufi 4236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4237: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4238: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4239: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4240:
4241: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4242: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4243:
1.113 naddy 4244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4245: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4246: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4247:
4248: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4249: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4250: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4251: </ul>
1.57 louis 4252:
1.69 deraadt 4253: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4254: <ul>
1.301 jose 4255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4256: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4257: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4258: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4259:
4260: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4261: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4262: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4263: <p>
4264:
4265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4266: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4267: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4268: Nov 13, 1998 and
4269: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4270: Datateknik</a>,
4271: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4272:
1.380 saad 4273: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4274: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4275: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4276: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4277: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4278:
1.113 naddy 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4280: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4281: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4282: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4283:
1.222 miod 4284: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4285: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4286: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4287: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4288: <p>
1.247 jufi 4289: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4290:
1.69 deraadt 4291: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4292: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4293:
1.247 jufi 4294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4295: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4296: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4297:
1.69 deraadt 4298: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4299: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4300: <p>
1.247 jufi 4301: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4302:
1.69 deraadt 4303: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4304: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4305:
1.247 jufi 4306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4307: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4308: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4309: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4310:
1.383 jcs 4311: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4312: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4313: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4314:
1.247 jufi 4315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4316: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4317: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4318: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4319: <p>
1.247 jufi 4320: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4321:
1.69 deraadt 4322: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4323: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4324:
1.247 jufi 4325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4326: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4327: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4328: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4329: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4330: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4331:
4332: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4333: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4334: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4335: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4336: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4337: <p>
1.247 jufi 4338: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4339:
4340: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4341: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4342:
1.247 jufi 4343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4344: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4345: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4346:
1.69 deraadt 4347: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4348: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4349: <p>
1.112 naddy 4350:
1.247 jufi 4351: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4352: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4353:
1.292 camield 4354: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4355: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4356: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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