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1.417 pvalchev 19: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 ! otto 22: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
! 23: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
! 24: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
! 25: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
! 26: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
! 27: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
! 28: it claims to do".
! 29: <p>
! 30:
! 31: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 32: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
33: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
34: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
35: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
36: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
37: questions about the significance and rationale behind
38: the current efforts.
39: <p>
40: </ul>
41:
1.407 henning 42: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
43: <ul>
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 45: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
46: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
47: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
48: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
49: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
50: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
51: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
52: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
53: <p>
54:
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 56: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
57: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
58: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
59: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
60: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
61: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
62: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
63: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
64: of the important changes in 3.6.
65: </p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 68: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
69: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
70: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
71: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
72: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
73: overflow attacks... because
74: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
75: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
76: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
77: and propolice.
78: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
79: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
80: and that's when the science falls apart."
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 84: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
85: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
86: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
87: Starts with the question:
88: <blockquote>
89: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
90: <br/>
91: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
92: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
93: <br/>
94: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
95: Should we believe them?"
96: </blockquote>
97: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
98: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
99: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
100: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
101: for your mail, web and other online activities.
102: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 106: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
107: Simple Simon</a>,
108: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
109: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
110: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
111: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
112: routing/firewall, and more.
113: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
114: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
115: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
116: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
117: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
118: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
119: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
120: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
121: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
122: </blockquote>
123: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
124: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
125: <p>
126:
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 128: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
129: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 130: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 131: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 132: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
133: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
134: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 135: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 136: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
137: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
138: in spite of it
139: (registration required, but worth it).
140: <p>
141:
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
143: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
144: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
145: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
146: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
147: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
148: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
149: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 150: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 151: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
152: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
153: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
154: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 158: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
159: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
160: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
161: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
162: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
163: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
164: <blockquote>
165: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
166: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
167: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
168: a lot of analysis.
169: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
170: </blockquote>
171: <p>
172: </ul>
173:
1.400 marco 174: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
175: <ul>
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 177: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
178: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
179: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
180: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
181: UNIX-like systems.
182: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
183: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
184: <p>
185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 186: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
187: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 188: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
189: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
190: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
191: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
192: At one point, the article states:
193: <blockquote>
194: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
195: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
196: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
197: </blockquote>
198: And then quotes Theo as saying:
199: <blockquote>
200: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
201: fewer are reading or auditing code."
202: </blockquote>
203: <p>
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
205: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
206: marks its fifth birthday</a>
207: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
208: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
209: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
210: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
211: required).
212: <p>
213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 214: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
215: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
216: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
217: </strong></font><br>
218: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
219: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
220: <p>
221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 222: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
223: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 224: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 225: </strong></font><br>
226: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
227: <p>
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 229: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
230: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 231: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 232: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 233: 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 234: <p>
235: </ul>
236:
1.396 henning 237: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
238: <ul>
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 240: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
241: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
242: Unix Review, July, 2004
243: </strong></font><br>
244: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
245: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
246: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
247: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
248: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
249: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
250: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
251: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
252: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
253: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
254: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
255: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
256: and even spelling/wording errors.
257: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
258: <p>
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 260: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 261: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
262: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
263: </strong></font><br>
264: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
265: <p>
266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 267: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 268: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
269: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
270: </strong></font><br>
271: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
272: <p>
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 274: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
275: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
276: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
277: </strong></font><br>
278: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
279: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
280: <p>
281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 282: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
283: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
284: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
285: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
286: <p>
287: </ul>
288:
1.405 jolan 289: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
290: <ul>
291: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
292: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
293: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
294: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
295: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
296: details on how funds are dispersed.
297: <p>
298: </ul>
299:
1.393 david 300: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
301: <ul>
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 303: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
304: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
305: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
306: </strong></font><br>
307: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
308: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
309: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
310: on inserting large number of SQL records.
311: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
312: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
313: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 317: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
318: Secure by Default</a>,
319: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
320: </strong></font><br>
321: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
322: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
323: <p>
324:
325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
326: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
327: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
328: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
329: </strong></font><br>
330: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
331: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
332: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
333: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
334: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
335: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
336: <p>
337:
338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
339: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
340: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
341: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
342: </strong></font><br>
343: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
344: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
345: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
349: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
350: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
351: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
352: </strong></font><br>
353: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
354: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
355: <p>
356: </ul>
357:
1.388 mcbride 358: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
359: <ul>
1.394 jolan 360:
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
362: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
363: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
364: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
365: </strong></font><br>
366: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
367: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
368: available for sparc64.
369: <p>
370:
1.390 beck 371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 372: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
373: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
374: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
375: </strong></font><br>
376: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
377: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
378: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
379: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
380: <p>
381:
382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 383: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
384: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 385: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 386: </strong></font><br>
387: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
388: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
389: it does: CARP provides sharing
390: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
391: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
392: detail to get you started using it.
393: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
394: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
395: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
396: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
397: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
398: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
399: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 400: <p>
1.391 ian 401:
402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 403: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 404: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
405: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 406: </strong></font><br>
407: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 408: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 409: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 410: <p>
1.388 mcbride 411:
412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
413: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
414: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 415: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 416: </strong></font><br>
417: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
418: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
419: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
420: unencumbered by patents.
421: <p>
422: </ul>
423:
1.378 henning 424: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
425: <ul>
1.384 jose 426:
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 428: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
429: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
430: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
431: </strong></font><br>
432: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
433: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
434: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
435: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
436: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
437: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
438: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
439: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
440: in the page tables."
441: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
442: <p>
443:
444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 445: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
446: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
447: </strong></font><br>
448: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
449: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
450: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
451: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 452: <p>
1.384 jose 453:
1.378 henning 454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 455: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
456: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 457: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
458: </strong></font><br>
459: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
460: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
461: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
462: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
463: (quote:
464: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
465: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 466: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 467: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
468: the other developers for their work on the system.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 472: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
473: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
474: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 475: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 476: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
477: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
478: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
479: too.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 483: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
484: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 485: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 486: OpenBSD source code using
487: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
488: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
489: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
490: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
491: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
492: <p>
493: </ul>
494:
1.374 jose 495: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
496: <ul>
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 498: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 499: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
500: </strong></font><br>
501: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
502: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
503: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
504: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
505: it."
506: <p>
507:
508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 509: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
510: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
511: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
512: </strong></font><br/>
513: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
514: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
515: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
516: <p>
517: </ul>
518:
1.369 ian 519: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
520: <ul>
521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 522: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
523: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
524: </strong></font><br/>
525: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
526: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
527: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
528: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 532: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
533: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
534: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
535: </strong></font><br/>
536: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
537: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
538: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
539: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
540: form factor.
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
544: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
545: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
546: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
547: Features</a>,
548: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
549: </strong></font><br/>
550: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
551: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
552: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
553: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
554: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
555: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
556: <p>
557: This article can also be found online at:
558: <ul>
559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 560: <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 561: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
562: </strong></font>
563: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
564: </ul>
565: <p>
1.392 david 566:
1.371 jose 567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 568: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
569: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 570: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
571: </strong></font><br/>
572: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
573: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
574: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 575: <p>
1.371 jose 576:
577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 578: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 579: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 580: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 581: </strong></font><br/>
582: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
583: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
584: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
585: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
586: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
587: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
588: and its history with OpenBSD.
589: </ul>
590:
1.368 henning 591: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
592: <ul>
593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 594: [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 595: </strong></font><br>
596: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
597: </ul>
598:
1.364 jose 599: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
600: <ul>
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 602: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
603: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
604: UNIX Review,
605: July, 2003.
606: </strong></font><br>
607: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
608: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
609: who want more information.
610: <p>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 613: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
614: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
615: Government Computer News,
616: July 22, 2003.
617: </strong></font><br>
618: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
619: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
620: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
621: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
622: <p>
623:
624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
625: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
626: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
627: SANS Institute,
628: July 22, 2003.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 631: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 632: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
633: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
634: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
635: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
636: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
637: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
638: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
639: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
640: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
641: <p>
642:
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 644: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
645: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
646: OnLamp.com,
647: July 17, 2003.
648: </strong></font><br>
649: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
650: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
651: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
652: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
653: have been working on.
654:
655: </ul>
656:
1.356 jose 657: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 658: <ul>
659:
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 661: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
662: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
663: UNIX Review,
664: June, 2003.
665: </strong></font><br>
666: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
667: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
668: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
669: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
670: <p>
671:
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 673: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
674: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
675: eWeek,
676: June 23, 2003.
677: </strong></font><br>
678: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
679: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
680: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
681: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
682: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
683: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 687: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
688: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
689: Software Development Online,
690: June, 2003.
691: </strong></font><br>
692: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
693: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
694: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
695: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
696: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
697: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
698: current activities.
699: <p>
700:
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 702: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
703: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 704: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
705: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
706: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
707: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 708: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 709: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
710: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
711: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 712: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 713: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
714: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 715: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 716: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
717: decisions.
718: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
719: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 720: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 721: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 722: <p>
723:
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 725: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
726: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
727: Page 58, eWeek,
728: June 2, 2003.
729: </strong></font><br>
730: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
731: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
732: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
733: been addressed in -current.
734: <p>
735:
1.356 jose 736: </ul>
737:
738: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
739: <ul>
740:
1.355 jose 741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 742: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
743: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
744: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
745: </strong></font><br>
746: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
747: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
748: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
749: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
750: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
751: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
752: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 756: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
757: Beyond Linux</a>,
758: InfoWorld,
759: May 23, 2003.
760: </strong></font><br>
761: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
762: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
763: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
764: compared to the GPL.
765: <p>
766:
767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 768: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
769: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
770: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 771: May 17, 2003.
772: </strong></font><br>
773: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
774: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
775: the business section and half of another page inside
776: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
777: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
778: in talking about the project's history and goals.
779: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
780: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
781: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
782: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 783: <br>
784: This article can also be found online at:
785: <ul>
786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
787: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
788: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
789: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
790: May 17, 2003
791: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 792: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
794: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
795: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
796: Montreal Gazette,
797: May 21, 2003
798: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 799: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 800: <p>
1.346 ian 801:
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 803: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 804: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 805: May 7, 2003.
806: </strong></font><br>
807: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
808: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
809: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
810: <p>
811:
812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 813: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
814: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
815: OsOpinion,
816: May 6, 2003.
817: </strong></font><br>
818: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
819: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
820: <br>
821: This article can also be found online at:
822: <ul>
823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
824: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
825: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
826: NewsFactor Network.
827: </strong></font>
828: </ul>
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 832: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 833: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
834: ITBusiness,
835: May 2, 2003.
836: </strong></font><br>
837: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
838: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
839: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
840: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 844: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
845: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
846: InfoWorld,
847: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 848: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 849: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
850: <br>
851: This article can also be found online at:
852: <ul>
853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
854: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
855: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
856: IDG Singapore.
857: </strong></font>
858: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 859: <p>
860:
1.339 jose 861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
862: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
863: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 864: ZDNet,
865: May 1, 2003.
866: </strong></font><br>
867: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 868: someone using parts from previous articles.
869: <br>
1.341 deraadt 870: This article can also be found online at:
871: <ul>
872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
873: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
874: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
875: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 876: </strong></font>
877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
878: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
879: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
880: CNET News.com.
881: </strong></font>
882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
883: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
884: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
885: ZDNet UK.
886: </strong></font>
887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
888: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
889: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
890: Help Net Security, Croatia.
891: </strong></font>
892: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 893: <p>
1.339 jose 894:
1.341 deraadt 895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 896: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 897: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
898: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
899: May 1, 2003.
900: </strong></font><br>
901: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
902: that have been added
903: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
904: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
905: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 906: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 907: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
908: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
909: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 910: <p>
911:
912: </ul>
913:
1.253 ian 914: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
915: <ul>
1.255 ian 916:
1.260 ian 917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 918: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 919: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
920: TechRepublic,
921: April 28, 2003.
922: </strong></font><br>
923: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
924: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 925: work.<br>
926: Can also be found online at:
927: <ul>
928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
929: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
930: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
931: ZDNet UK.
932: </strong></font>
933: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 934: <p>
935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 937: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
938: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
939: IDG,
940: April 24, 2003.
941: </strong></font><br>
942: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
943: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
944: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
945: Can also be found online at:
946: <ul>
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
948: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
949: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 950: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 951: </strong></font>
952: </ul>
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
956: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 957: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 958: Slate,
959: April 24, 2003.
960: </strong></font><br>
961: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
962: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
963: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
964: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 968: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
969: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
970: April 24, 2003.
971: </strong></font><br>
972: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
973: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
974: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
975: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
976: <p>
977:
978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 979: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
980: April 24, 2003.
981: </strong></font><br>
982: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
983: the free software community".
984: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
985: other articles.
986: <p>
987:
988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 989: <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 990: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
991: </strong></font><br>
992: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
993: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
994: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
995: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
996: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
997: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
998: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 999: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1000: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1001: <br/>
1002: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1003: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1004: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1005: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1006: <br>
1007: Can also be found online at:
1008: <ul>
1009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1010: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1011: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1012: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1013: </strong></font>
1014: </ul>
1.324 ian 1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1018: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1019: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1020: </strong></font><br>
1021: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1022: article above.
1023: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1024: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1025: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1026: <br>
1027: Can also be found online at:
1028: <ul>
1029: <li>
1030: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1031: </strong></font>
1032: </ul>
1.324 ian 1033: <p>
1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1036: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1037: </strong></font><br>
1038: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1039: <p>
1040:
1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1042: <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.
1043: </strong></font><br>
1044: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1045: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1046: <p>
1047:
1048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1049: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1050: April 23, 2003.
1051: </strong></font><br>
1052: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1053: <p>
1054:
1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1056: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1057: April 22, 2003.
1058: </strong></font><br>
1059: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1063: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1064: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1065: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1066: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1067: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1068: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1069: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1070: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1071: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1072: Can also be found online at:
1073: <ul>
1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1075: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1076: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1077: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1078: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1080: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1081: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1082: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1083: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1084: </ul>
1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1088: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1089: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1090: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1091: </strong></font><br>
1092: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1093: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1094: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1095: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1096: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1097: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1098: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1099: <p>
1100:
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1102: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1103: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1104: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1105: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1106: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1107: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1108: at UPenn and DARPA.
1109: <p>
1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1112: [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,
1113: France
1.315 deraadt 1114: April 18, 2003.
1115: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1116: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1120: [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 1121: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1122: </strong></font><br>
1123: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1127: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1128: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1129: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1130: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1131: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1132: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1133: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1134: <p>
1135:
1136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1137: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1138: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1139: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1140: </strong></font><br>
1141: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1142: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1143: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1144: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1145: <p>
1146:
1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1148: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1149: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1150: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1151: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1152: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1153: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1154: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1155: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1156: Can also be found online at:
1157: <ul>
1158: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1159: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1160: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1161: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1162: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1166: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1167: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1168: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1169: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1170: </strong></font><br>
1171: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1172: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1173: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1174: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1175: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1178: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1179: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1180: New York Times.
1181: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1182:
1.273 deraadt 1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1184: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1185: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1186: ABC News.
1187: </strong></font>
1188:
1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1190: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1191: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1192: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1193: </strong></font>
1194:
1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1196: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1197: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1198: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1199: </strong></font>
1200:
1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1202: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1203: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1204: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1205: </strong></font>
1206:
1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1208: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1209: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1210: Times Daily, AL.
1211: </strong></font>
1212:
1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1214: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1215: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1216: Boston.com, MA.
1217: </strong></font>
1218:
1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1220: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1221: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1222: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1223: </strong></font>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1226: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1227: [Article was pulled]</a>
1228: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1229: </strong></font>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1232: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1233: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1234: Infoshop News.
1235: </strong></font>
1236:
1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1238: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1239: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1240: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1241: </strong></font>
1242:
1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1244: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1245: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1246: Raleigh News, NC.
1247: </strong></font>
1248:
1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1250: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1251: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1252: Napa News, CA.
1253: </strong></font>
1254:
1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1256: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1257: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1258: NEPA News, PA.
1259: </strong></font>
1260:
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1262: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1263: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1264: Wired News.
1265: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1266: <br>
1267: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1268: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1269: [JAPANESE]
1270: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1271: Wired News Japan</a>
1272: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1273:
1.271 deraadt 1274: </ul>
1275: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1276: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1277: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1278: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1279: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1280: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1281: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1282: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1283: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1284: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1285: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1286: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1287: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1288: <p>
1289: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1290:
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1292: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1293: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1294: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1295: </strong></font>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1298: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1299: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1300: Miami Herald, FL.
1301: </strong></font>
1302:
1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1304: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1305: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1306: </strong></font>
1307:
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1309: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1310: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1311: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1312: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1313:
1314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1315: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1316: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1317: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1318: ABC News.
1319: </strong></font>
1320:
1.276 deraadt 1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1322: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1323: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1324: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1325: </strong></font>
1326:
1.286 dhartmei 1327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1328: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1329: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1330: Wilmington Star, NC.
1331: </strong></font>
1332:
1.300 jose 1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1334: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1335: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1336: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1337: </strong></font>
1338:
1.309 jose 1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1340: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1341: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1342: Globe Technology.
1343: </strong></font>
1344:
1.263 deraadt 1345: </ul>
1.262 beck 1346: <p>
1347:
1348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1349: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1350: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1351: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1352: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1353: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1354: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1355: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1356: <p>
1357:
1358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1359: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1360: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1361: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1362: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1363: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1364: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1365: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1366: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1367: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1368: and simply restates other press reports.
1369: <p>
1370:
1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1372: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1373: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1374: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1375: </strong></font><br>
1376: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1377: <p>
1378:
1379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1380: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1381: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1382: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1383: </strong></font><br>
1384: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1385: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1386: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1387: <p>
1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1390: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1391: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1392: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1393: April 17, 2003.
1394: </strong></font><br>
1395: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1396: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1397: Tech Anthems</a>
1398: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1399: 4 so far.
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1403: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1404: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1405: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1406: </strong></font><br>
1407: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1408: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1409: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1410: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1411: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1412: Goes on to say:
1413: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1414: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1415: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1416: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1417: This article is also found online at:
1418: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1420: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1421: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1422: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1423: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1425: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1426: ZDnet</a>,
1427: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1428: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1430: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1431: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1432: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1433: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1434: </ul>
1.260 ian 1435: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1436:
1.260 ian 1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1438: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1439: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1440: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1441: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1442: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1443: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1444: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1445: without notice or justification.
1446: <p>
1447:
1448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1449: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1450: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1451: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1452: </strong></font><br>
1453: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1454: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1455: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1456: effective today, without any warning..."
1457: <p>
1.257 ian 1458:
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1460: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1461: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1462: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1463: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1464: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1465: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1466: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1467: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1468: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1469: <p>
1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1472: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1473: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1474: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1477: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1478: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1479: quoting two of them:
1480: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1481: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1482: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1483: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1484: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1485: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1486: <p>
1487:
1.255 ian 1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1489: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1490: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1491: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1492: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1493: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1494: <p>
1495:
1496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1497: [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 1498: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1499: </strong></font><br>
1500: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1501: <p>
1502:
1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1504: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1505: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1506: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1507: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1508: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1509: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1510: security experts for more than three decades."
1511: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1512: <p>
1.261 ian 1513:
1.254 drahn 1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1515: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1516: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1517: </strong></font><br>
1518: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1519: <p>
1520:
1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1522: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1523: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1524: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1525: </strong></font><br>
1526: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1527: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1528: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1529: <p>
1530:
1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1532: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1533: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1534: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1535: </strong></font><br>
1536: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1537: from US DARPA.
1538: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1539: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1540: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1541: the BSD license.
1542: <p>
1543: </ul>
1544:
1.251 ian 1545: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1546: <ul>
1547:
1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1549: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1550: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1551: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1552: </strong></font><br>
1553:
1554: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1555: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1556: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1557: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1558: <p>
1559:
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1561: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1562: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1563: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1564: </strong></font><br>
1565: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1566: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1567: Mentions
1568: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1569: and
1570: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1571: programs.
1572: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1573: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1574: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1575: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1576: <p>
1.325 ian 1577: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1578: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1581: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1582: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1583: </strong></font><br>
1584: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1585: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1586: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1587: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1588: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1589: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1590: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1591: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1592: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1593: put into service."
1594: <p>
1595: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1596: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1597: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1598: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1599: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1600: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1601: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1602: computers with security features."
1603: <p>
1.329 ian 1604:
1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1606: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1607: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1608: Slate,
1609: March 3, 2003.
1610: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1611: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1612: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1613: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1614: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1615: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1616: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1617: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1618: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1619: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1620: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1621: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1622: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1623: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1624: of more secure open-source solutions like
1625: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1626: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1627: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1628: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1629: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1630: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1631: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1632: the Beltway."
1633: <p>
1.251 ian 1634: </ul>
1635:
1.249 jufi 1636: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1637: <ul>
1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1639: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1640: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1641: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1642: </strong></font><br>
1643: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1644: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1645: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1646: <p>
1.334 ian 1647:
1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1649: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1650: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1651: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1652: </strong></font><br>
1653: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1654: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1655: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1656: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1657: "... the hypothetical question ...
1658: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1659: <br>
1660: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1661: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1662: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1663: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1664: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1665: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1666: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1667: support network security.
1668: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1669: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1670: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1671: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1672: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1673: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1674: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1675: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1676: <br>
1677: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1678: <p>
1679:
1.249 jufi 1680: </ul>
1681:
1.246 jufi 1682: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1683: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1684:
1.247 jufi 1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1686: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1687: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1688: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1689: </strong></font><br>
1690: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1691: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1692: <p>
1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1695: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1696: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1697: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1698: </strong></font><br>
1699: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1700: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1701: <p>
1702:
1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1704: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1705: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1706: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1707: </strong></font><br>
1708: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1709: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1710: <p>
1.247 jufi 1711: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1712:
1.244 jufi 1713: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1714: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1715:
1.247 jufi 1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1717: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1718: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1719: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1720: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1723: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1724: md5 digests.
1725: <p>
1726:
1.247 jufi 1727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1728: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1729: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1730: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1731: </strong></font><br>
1732: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1733: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1734: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1735: right the first time."
1736: <p>
1.247 jufi 1737: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1738:
1739:
1740: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1741: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1742:
1.247 jufi 1743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1744: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1745: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1746: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1747: </strong></font><br>
1748: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1749: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1750: part 6</a>.
1751: <p>
1752:
1.247 jufi 1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1754: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1755: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1756: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1757: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1758: </strong></font><br>
1759: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1760: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1761: <p>
1.301 jose 1762:
1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1764: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1765: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1766: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1767: </strong></font><br>
1768:
1769: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1770: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1771: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1772: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1773: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1774: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1775: <i>Here's the
1776: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1777: <p>
1.247 jufi 1778: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1779:
1780: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1781: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1782:
1.247 jufi 1783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1784: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1785: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1786: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1787: </strong></font><br>
1788: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1789: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1790: <p>
1791:
1.247 jufi 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1793: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1794: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1795: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1798: this time using pf.
1799: <p>
1.247 jufi 1800: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1801:
1802: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1803: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1804:
1.247 jufi 1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1806: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1807: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1808: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1809: </strong></font><br>
1810: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1811: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1812: their rotation.
1813: <p>
1814:
1.247 jufi 1815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1816: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1817: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1818: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1819: </strong></font><br>
1820: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1821: <p>
1.247 jufi 1822: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1823:
1.239 jufi 1824: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1825: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1826:
1.247 jufi 1827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1828: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1829: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1830: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1831: </strong></font><br>
1832: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1833: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1834: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1835: <p>
1836:
1.247 jufi 1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1838: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1839: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1840: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1841: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1842: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1843: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1844: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1845: <p>
1.247 jufi 1846: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1847:
1.235 lebel 1848: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1849: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1850:
1.239 jufi 1851:
1.247 jufi 1852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1853: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1854: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1855: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1856: </strong></font><br>
1857: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1858: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1859: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1860: <p>
1.301 jose 1861:
1.247 jufi 1862: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1863:
1.228 horacio 1864: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1865: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1866:
1.247 jufi 1867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1868: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1869: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1870: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1871: </strong></font><br>
1872: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1873: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1874: <p>
1875:
1.247 jufi 1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1877: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1878: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1879: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1880: </strong></font><br>
1881: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1882: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1883: <p>
1884:
1.247 jufi 1885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1886: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1887: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1888: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1889: </strong></font><br>
1890: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1891: on the desktop of his parents.
1892: <p>
1893:
1.247 jufi 1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1895: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1896: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1897: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1898: </strong></font><br>
1899: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1900: using IPFilter.
1901:
1902: <p>
1903:
1.247 jufi 1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1905: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1906: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1907: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1908: </strong></font><br>
1909: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1910: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1911: perspectives of the four OS.
1912: <br>
1913: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1914: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1918: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1919: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1920: software and security</a>,
1921: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1922: </strong></font><br>
1923:
1924: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1925: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1926: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1927: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1928: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1929: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1930: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1931: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1932: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1933: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1934: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1935: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1936: <p>
1.247 jufi 1937: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1938:
1.225 horacio 1939: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1940: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1941:
1.247 jufi 1942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1943: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1944: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1945: Interview</a>,
1946: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1947: </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1950: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1951: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1952: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1953: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1954: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1955: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1956: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1957: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1958: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1959: of choice.
1960: <p>
1.247 jufi 1961: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1962:
1963: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1964: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1967: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1968: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1969: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1973: <p>
1974:
1.247 jufi 1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1976: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1977: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1978: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1979: </strong></font><br>
1980:
1981: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1982: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1983: <p>
1.247 jufi 1984: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1985:
1.218 horacio 1986: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1987: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 1990: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 1991: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 1992: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1993: </strong></font><br>
1994:
1995: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1996: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1997: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1998: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1999: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2000: subjects. Worth a read.
2001: <p>
2002:
2003:
1.247 jufi 2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2005: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2006: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2007: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2008: </strong></font><br>
2009:
2010: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2011: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2012: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2013: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2014: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2015: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2016: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2017: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2018: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2019: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2020: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2021: on other operating systems.<br>
2022: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2023: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2024: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2025: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2026: <p>
2027:
1.247 jufi 2028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2029: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2030: Operating System 2010</a>,
2031: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2032: </strong></font><br>
2033:
2034: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2035: covering the level of software integration into the core
2036: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2037: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2038: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2039: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2040: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2041: <p>
2042:
1.247 jufi 2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2044: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2045: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2046: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2047: </strong></font><br>
2048:
2049: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2050: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2051: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2052: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2053: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2054: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2055: <p>
1.247 jufi 2056: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2057:
1.210 jufi 2058: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2059: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2062: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2063: Already a Contender</a>,
2064: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2065: </strong></font><br>
2066:
2067: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2068: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2069: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2070: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2071: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2072: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2073: <p>
2074:
1.247 jufi 2075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2076: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2077: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2078: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2079: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2080:
1.224 horacio 2081: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2082: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2083: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2084: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2085: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2086: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2087: <p>
1.247 jufi 2088: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2089:
2090: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2091: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2092:
1.247 jufi 2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2094: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2095: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2096: Division</a>,
2097: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2098: </strong></font><br>
2099:
2100: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2101: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2102: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2103: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2104: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2105: investment</em>.<br>
2106: The implementation details can be seen on their
2107: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2108: <p>
2109:
1.247 jufi 2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2111: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2112: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2113: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2114: </strong></font><br>
2115:
2116: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2117: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2118: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2119: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2120: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2121: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2122: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2123: <p>
2124:
2125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2126: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2127: Thinking about Security</a>,
2128: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2129: </strong></font><br>
2130:
2131: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2132: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2133: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2134: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2135: to time.<br>
2136: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2137: system and just the most secure system.
2138: <p>
2139:
1.247 jufi 2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2141: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2142: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2143: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2144: </strong></font><br>
2145:
2146: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2147: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2148: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2149: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2150: choice:<br>
2151: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2152: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2153: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2154: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2155: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2156: network security devices and as such must be well
2157: armored."</em><br>
2158: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2159: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2160: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2161: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2162: <br>
2163: Bravo!
2164: <p>
1.247 jufi 2165: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2166:
1.207 ian 2167: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2168: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2169:
1.247 jufi 2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2171: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2172: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2173: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2174:
1.207 ian 2175: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2176: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2177: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2178: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2179: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2180: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2181: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2182: <p>
1.247 jufi 2183: </ul>
1.207 ian 2184:
1.194 jufi 2185: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2186: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2187:
1.247 jufi 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2189: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2190: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2191: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2192: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2193:
1.240 miod 2194: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2195: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2196: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2197: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2198: <p>
2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2201: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2202: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2203: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2204:
2205: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2206: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2207: <p>
2208:
2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2210: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2211: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2212: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2213:
2214: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2215: <p>
2216:
2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2218: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2219: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2220: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2221: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2222:
1.240 miod 2223: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2224: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2225: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2226: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2227: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2228: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2229: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2230: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2231: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2232: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2233: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2234: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2238: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2239: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2240: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2241: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2242:
1.194 jufi 2243: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2244: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2245: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2246: <br>
2247: The new
2248: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2249: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2250: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2251: <p>
1.247 jufi 2252: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2253:
1.190 horacio 2254: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2255: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2258:
2259: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2260: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2261:
1.301 jose 2262:
1.191 jufi 2263: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2264: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2265:
2266: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2267: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2268:
1.212 horacio 2269: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2270: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2271: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2272:
1.211 horacio 2273: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2274: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2275: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2276:
1.247 jufi 2277: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2278: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2279:
1.247 jufi 2280: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2281: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2282:
1.212 horacio 2283: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2284: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2285: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2286:
2287: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2288: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2289:
2290: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2291: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2292:
1.301 jose 2293: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2294: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2295:
1.191 jufi 2296: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2297: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2298:
2299: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2300: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2301:
1.192 jufi 2302: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2303: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2304: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2305:
1.193 deraadt 2306: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2307: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2308: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2309:
1.247 jufi 2310: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2311: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2312:
1.247 jufi 2313: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2314: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2315: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2316:
1.213 horacio 2317: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2318: 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 2319: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2320:
1.190 horacio 2321: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2322: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2323: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2324: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2325: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2326: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2327: <p>
1.190 horacio 2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2330: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2331: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2332: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2333: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2334:
1.195 jufi 2335: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2336: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2337: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2338: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2339: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2340: <p>
2341:
1.247 jufi 2342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2343: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2344: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2345: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2346: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2347:
1.191 jufi 2348: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2349: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2350: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2351: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2352: <p>
2353:
2354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2355: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2356: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2357: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2358:
2359: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2360: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2361: <p>
1.247 jufi 2362: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2363:
1.191 jufi 2364:
1.186 jufi 2365: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2366: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2369: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2370: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2371: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2372: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2373:
1.188 jufi 2374: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2375: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2376: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2377: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2378: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2379: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2380: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2381: <p>
2382:
1.301 jose 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2384: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2385: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2386: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2387:
2388: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2389: <p>
1.191 jufi 2390:
1.247 jufi 2391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2392: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2393: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2394: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2395: </strong></font><br>
2396:
2397: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2398: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2399: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2400: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2401: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2402: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2403: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2404: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2405: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2406: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2407: familiar?
2408: <p>
1.247 jufi 2409: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2410:
1.178 louis 2411: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2412: <ul>
1.178 louis 2413:
1.247 jufi 2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2415: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2416: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2417: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2418: </strong></font><br>
2419:
2420: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2421: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2422: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2423: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2424: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2425: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2426: <p>
2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2429: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2430: Open source under the hood</a>,
2431: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2432: </strong></font><br>
2433:
2434: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2435: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2436: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2437: <p>
2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2440: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2441: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2442: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2443: </strong></font><br>
2444:
2445: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2446: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2447: <p>
1.247 jufi 2448: </ul>
1.179 louis 2449:
1.174 louis 2450:
1.175 louis 2451: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2452: <ul>
1.175 louis 2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2455: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2456: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2457: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2458: </strong></font><br>
2459:
2460: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2461: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2462: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2463: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2464: <p>
2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2467: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2468: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2469: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2470: </strong></font><br>
2471:
2472: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2473: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2474: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2475: <p>
1.247 jufi 2476: </ul>
1.175 louis 2477:
1.176 louis 2478:
1.172 mickey 2479: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2480: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2481:
1.247 jufi 2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2483: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2484: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2485: </strong></font><br>
2486:
2487: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2488: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2489: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2490: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2491: <p>
2492:
1.247 jufi 2493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2494: <a
1.269 deraadt 2495: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2496: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2497: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2498: </strong></font><br>
2499:
2500: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2501: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2502: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2503: <p>
2504:
1.247 jufi 2505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2506: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2507: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2508: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2509: </strong></font><br>
2510:
2511: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2512: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2513: <p>
2514:
1.247 jufi 2515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2516: <a
1.269 deraadt 2517: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2518: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2519: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2520: </strong></font><br>
2521:
2522: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2523: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2524: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2525: our own Theo de Raadt.
2526: <p>
2527:
1.247 jufi 2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2529: <a
1.269 deraadt 2530: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2531: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2532: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2533: </strong></font><br>
2534:
2535: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2536: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2537: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2538: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2539: shut down.]
2540: <p>
2541:
1.247 jufi 2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2543: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2544: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2545: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2546: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2547: </strong></font><br>
2548:
2549: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2550: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2551: <p>
1.247 jufi 2552: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2553:
1.161 louis 2554: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2555: <ul>
1.161 louis 2556:
1.247 jufi 2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2558: <a
1.269 deraadt 2559: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2560: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2561: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2562: </strong></font><br>
2563:
2564: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2565: by John Wolley
2566: <p>
2567:
1.247 jufi 2568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2569: <a
1.269 deraadt 2570: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2571: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2572: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2573: </strong></font><br>
2574:
2575: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2576: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2577: OpenBSD).
2578: <p>
2579:
1.247 jufi 2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2581: <a
1.247 jufi 2582: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2583: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2584: </strong></font><br>
2585:
2586: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2587: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2588: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2589: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2590: and hindsight.
2591: <p>
2592:
1.247 jufi 2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2594: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2595: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2596: </strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2599: <p>
2600:
1.247 jufi 2601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2602: <a
1.168 provos 2603: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2604: December 7, 2000
2605: </strong></font><br>
2606:
2607: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2608: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2609: us explain.
2610: <p>
2611:
1.247 jufi 2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2613: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2614: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2615: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2616: December 6, 2000
2617: </strong></font><br>
2618:
2619: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2620: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2621: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2622: <p>
2623:
1.247 jufi 2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2625: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2626: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2627: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2628: </strong></font><br>
2629:
2630: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2631: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2632: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2633: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2634: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2635: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2636: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2637: <p>
2638:
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2640: <a
1.226 horacio 2641: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2642: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2643: </strong></font><br>
2644:
2645: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2646: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2647: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2648: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2649: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2650: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2651: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2652: <p>
1.162 millert 2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2655: <a
1.161 louis 2656: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2657: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2658: </strong></font><br>
2659:
2660: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2661: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2662: <p>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2665: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2666: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2667: </strong></font><br>
2668:
2669: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2670: <p>
2671:
2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2674: <a
1.226 horacio 2675: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2676: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2677: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2678: </strong></font><br>
2679:
2680: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2681: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2682: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2683: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2684: <p>
1.247 jufi 2685: </ul>
1.169 louis 2686:
1.158 louis 2687: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2688: <ul>
1.147 louis 2689:
1.247 jufi 2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2691: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2692: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2693: </strong></font><br>
2694:
2695: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2696: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2697: <p>
2698:
1.247 jufi 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2700: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2701: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2702: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2703: </strong></font><br>
2704: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2705: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2709: <a
2710: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2711: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2712: </strong></font><br>
2713:
2714: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2715: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2716: <p>
2717:
1.247 jufi 2718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2719: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2720: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2721: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2722:
1.213 horacio 2723: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2724: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2725: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2726: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2727: <p>
1.215 horacio 2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2730: <a
2731: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2732: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2733: </strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2736: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2737: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2738: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2739: much of the attitude too).
2740: <p>
1.161 louis 2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2743: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2744: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2745: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2746:
1.157 louis 2747: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2748: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2749: <p>
1.247 jufi 2750: </ul>
1.157 louis 2751:
2752: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2753: <ul>
1.157 louis 2754:
1.247 jufi 2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2756: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2757: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2758: </strong></font><br>
2759:
2760: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2761: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2762: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2763: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2767: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2768: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2769: </strong></font><br>
2770:
2771: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2772: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2773: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2774: it because they love coding...
2775: <p>
2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2778: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2779: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2780: </strong></font><br>
2781:
2782: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2783: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2784: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2785: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2786: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2787: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2788: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2789: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2790: <p>
2791:
1.247 jufi 2792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2793: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2794: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2795: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2796: </strong></font><br>
2797:
2798: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2799: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2800: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2801: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2802: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2803: the pizza.
2804: <p>
2805:
1.247 jufi 2806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2807: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2808: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2809: </strong></font><br>
2810:
2811: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2812: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2813: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2814: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2815: problems.
2816: <p>
2817:
1.247 jufi 2818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2819: <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 2820: </strong></font><br>
2821:
1.222 miod 2822: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2823: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2824: - whether they like it or not.
2825: <p>
2826:
1.247 jufi 2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2828: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2829: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2830: </strong></font><br>
2831:
2832: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2833: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2834: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2835: <p>
1.148 aaron 2836:
1.247 jufi 2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2838: <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 2839: </strong></font><br>
2840:
2841: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2842: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2843: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2844: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2845: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2846: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2847: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2848: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2849: <p>
2850:
1.247 jufi 2851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2852: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2853: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2854: </strong></font><br>
2855:
2856: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2857: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 2858: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2859: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2860: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2861: <p>
1.247 jufi 2862: </ul>
1.147 louis 2863:
1.138 louis 2864: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2865: <ul>
1.138 louis 2866:
1.247 jufi 2867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2868: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2869: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2870: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2871: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2872: </strong></font><br>
2873:
1.227 horacio 2874: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2875: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2876: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2877: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2878: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2879: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2880: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2881: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2882: <p>
2883:
1.247 jufi 2884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2885: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2886: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888:
2889: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2890: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2891: groups, and even Linux.
2892: <p>
2893:
1.247 jufi 2894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2895: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2896: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2897: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2898: </strong></font><br>
2899:
2900: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2901: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2902: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2903: library after installing the OS.
2904: <p>
2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2907: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2908: Sys Admin, September 2000
2909: </strong></font><br>
2910:
2911: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2912: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2913: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2914: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2915: (<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>,
2916: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2917: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2918: <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 2919: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2920: out of the system.
2921: <p>
2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2924: <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
2925: </strong></font><br>
2926:
2927: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 2928: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 2929: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2930: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2931: the IP filtering and address translation.
2932: <p>
1.301 jose 2933:
2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2935: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2936: </strong></font><br>
2937:
2938: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2939: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2940: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2941: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2942: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2943: <p>
1.247 jufi 2944: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2945:
1.131 louis 2946: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2947: <ul>
1.131 louis 2948:
1.247 jufi 2949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2950: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2951: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2952: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2953: </strong></font><br>
2954:
2955: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2956: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2957: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2958: <p>
2959:
1.247 jufi 2960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2961: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2962: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2963: </strong></font><br>
2964:
2965: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2966: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2967: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2968: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2969: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2970: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2971: note of"</i>.
2972: <p>
2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2975: <a
1.247 jufi 2976: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2977: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2981: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2982: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2983: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2984: <p>
2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2987: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2988: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2989: </strong></font><br>
2990:
2991: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2992: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2993: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2994: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2995: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2996: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2997: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2998: <p>
2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3001: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3002: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3003: 2000
3004: </strong></font><br>
3005:
3006: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3007: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3008: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3009: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3010: against current industry practices.
3011: <p>
3012:
1.247 jufi 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3014: <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
3015: </strong></font><br>
3016:
3017: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3018: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3019: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3020: <p>
3021:
1.247 jufi 3022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3023: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3024: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3025: </strong></font><br>
3026:
3027: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3028: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3029: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3030: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3031: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3032: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3033: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3034: <p>
3035:
1.247 jufi 3036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3037: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3038: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3039: </strong></font><br>
3040:
3041: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3042: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3043: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3044: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3045: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3046: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3047: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3048: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3049: <p>
1.247 jufi 3050: </ul>
1.131 louis 3051:
1.118 louis 3052: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3053: <ul>
1.118 louis 3054:
1.247 jufi 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3056: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3057: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3058: </strong></font><br>
3059:
3060: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3061: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3062: about time. The article mentions that
3063: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3064: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3065: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3066: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3067: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3068: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3069: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3070: <p>
3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3073: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3074: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3075: </strong></font><br>
3076:
3077: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3078: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3079: of OpenSSH.
3080: <p>
3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3083: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3084: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3085: </strong></font><br>
3086:
3087: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3088: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3089: bridging.
3090: <p>
3091:
1.247 jufi 3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3093: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3094: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3095: </strong></font><br>
3096:
1.121 deraadt 3097: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3098: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3099: <p>
3100:
1.247 jufi 3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3102: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3103: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3104: </strong></font><br>
3105:
3106: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3107: <p>
3108:
1.247 jufi 3109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3110: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3111: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3112: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3113: </strong></font><br>
3114:
1.120 deraadt 3115: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3116: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3117: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3118: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3119: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3120: <p>
3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3123: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3124: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3125: </strong></font><br>
3126:
1.222 miod 3127: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3128: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3129: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3130: protocols and their quirks.
3131: <p>
3132:
1.247 jufi 3133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3134: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3135: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3136: </strong></font><br>
3137:
3138: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3139: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3140: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3141: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3142: <p>
3143:
1.247 jufi 3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3145: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3146: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3147: </strong></font><br>
3148:
3149: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3150: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3151: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3152: <p>
3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3155: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3156: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3157: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3158: </strong></font><br>
3159:
3160: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3161: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3162: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3163: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3164: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3165: <p>
1.247 jufi 3166: </ul>
1.118 louis 3167:
1.104 louis 3168: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3169: <ul>
1.104 louis 3170:
1.247 jufi 3171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3172: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3173: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3174: </strong></font><br>
3175:
3176: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3177: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3178: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3179: be a bit dry.
3180: <p>
3181:
1.247 jufi 3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3183: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3184: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3185: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3186: </strong></font><br>
3187: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3188: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3189: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3190: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3191: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3192: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3193: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3194: <p>
3195:
1.247 jufi 3196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3197: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3198: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3199: 2000
1.128 louis 3200: </strong></font><br>
3201:
3202: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3203: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3204: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3205: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3206: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3207: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3208: <p>
3209:
1.247 jufi 3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3211: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3212: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3213: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3214:
3215: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3216: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3217: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3218: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3219: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3220: <p>
1.110 louis 3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3223: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3224: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3225: </strong></font><br>
3226:
3227: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3228: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3229: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3230: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3231: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3232: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3233: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3234: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3235: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3236: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3237: <p>
3238:
1.247 jufi 3239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3240: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3242:
3243: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3244: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3245: <p>
1.108 louis 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3248: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3249: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3250: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3251:
3252: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3253: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3254: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3255: <p>
1.106 louis 3256:
1.247 jufi 3257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3258: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3259: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3260: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3261:
3262: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3263: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3264: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3265: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3266: <p>
1.107 louis 3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3269: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3270: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3271: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3272:
3273: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3274: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3275: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3276: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3277: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3278: <p>
1.105 louis 3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3281: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3282: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3283: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3284:
1.113 naddy 3285: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3286: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3287: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3288: <p>
1.104 louis 3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3291: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3292: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3293: </strong></font><br>
3294:
3295: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3296: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3297: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3298: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3299: <p>
1.301 jose 3300:
3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3302: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3303: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3304: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3305:
3306: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3307: hardware-supported cryptography.
3308: <p>
1.247 jufi 3309: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3310:
1.85 louis 3311: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3312: <ul>
1.85 louis 3313:
1.247 jufi 3314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3315: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3316: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3317: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3318:
3319: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3320: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3321: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3322: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3323: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3324: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3325: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3326: <p>
1.99 louis 3327:
1.247 jufi 3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3329: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3330: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3331: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3332:
3333: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3334: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3335: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3336: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3337: <p>
1.100 louis 3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3340: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3341: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3342: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3343:
3344: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3345: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3346: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3347: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3348: <p>
1.95 louis 3349:
1.247 jufi 3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3351: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3352: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3353: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3354:
3355: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3356: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3357: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3358: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3359: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3360: <p>
1.92 louis 3361:
1.247 jufi 3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3363: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3364: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3365: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3366:
3367: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3368: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3369: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3370: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3371: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3372: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3373: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3374: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3375: <p>
1.91 louis 3376:
1.247 jufi 3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3378: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3379: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3380: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3381:
3382: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3383: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3384: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3385: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3386: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3387: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3388: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3389: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3390: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3391: <p>
1.90 louis 3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3394: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3395: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3396: </strong></font><br>
3397: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3398: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3399: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3400: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3401: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3402: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3403: <p>
3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3406: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3407: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3408: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3409:
1.113 naddy 3410: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3411: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3412: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3413: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3414: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3415: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3416: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3417: <p>
1.87 louis 3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3420: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3421: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3422: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3423:
3424: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3425: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3426: <p>
1.85 louis 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3429: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3430: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3431: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3432:
3433: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3434: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3435: <p>
3436:
3437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3438: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3439: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3440: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3441:
3442: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3443: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3444: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3445: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3446: <p>
1.89 louis 3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3449: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3450: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3451: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3452:
3453: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3454: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3455: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3456: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3457: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3458: </ul>
1.85 louis 3459:
1.78 deraadt 3460: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3461: <ul>
1.74 louis 3462:
1.247 jufi 3463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3464: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3465: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3466: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3467: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3468:
3469: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3470: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3471: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3472: <p>
1.83 louis 3473:
1.247 jufi 3474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3475: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3476: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3477: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3478:
3479: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3480: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3481: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3482: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3483: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3484: <p>
1.93 louis 3485:
1.247 jufi 3486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3487: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3488: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3489: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3490: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3491:
1.83 louis 3492: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3493: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3494: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3495: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3496: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3497: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3498: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3499: <p>
1.82 aaron 3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3502: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3503: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3504: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3505:
1.83 louis 3506: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3507: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3508: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3509: <p>
1.80 louis 3510:
1.247 jufi 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3512: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3513: Bad Press</a>,
3514: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3515: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3516:
3517: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3518: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3519: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3520: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3521: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3522: <p>
1.247 jufi 3523: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3524:
3525: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3526: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3527:
1.247 jufi 3528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3529: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3530: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3531: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3532: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3533:
3534: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3535: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3536: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3537: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3538: <p>
1.74 louis 3539:
1.247 jufi 3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3541: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3542: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3543: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3544:
1.219 horacio 3545: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3546: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3547: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3548: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3549: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3550: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3551: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3552: <p>
1.88 louis 3553:
1.247 jufi 3554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3555: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3556: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3557: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3558:
3559: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3560: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3561: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3562: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3563: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3564: <p>
1.81 louis 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3567: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3568: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3569: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3570:
3571: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3572: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3573: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3574: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3575: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3576: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3577: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3578: <p>
1.90 louis 3579:
1.247 jufi 3580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3581: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3582: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3583: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3584:
3585: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3586: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3587: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3588: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3589: <p>
1.247 jufi 3590: </ul>
1.71 louis 3591:
1.69 deraadt 3592: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3593: <ul>
1.70 louis 3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3596: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3597: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3598: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3599:
3600: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3601: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3602: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3603: <p>
1.70 louis 3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3606: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3607: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3608: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3609:
3610: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3611: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3612: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3613: <p>
1.68 louis 3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3616: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3617: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3618: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3619: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3620:
1.111 jufi 3621: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3622: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3623: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3624: "secure by default" installation.
3625: <p>
1.64 louis 3626:
1.247 jufi 3627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3628: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3629: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3630: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3631:
1.113 naddy 3632: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3633: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3634: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3635: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3636: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3637: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3638: <p>
1.66 louis 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3641: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3642: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3643: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3644:
3645: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3646: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3647: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3648: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3649: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3650: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3651: <p>
1.83 louis 3652:
1.247 jufi 3653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3654: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3655: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3656: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3657:
3658: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3659: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3660: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3661: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3662: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3663: <p>
1.64 louis 3664:
1.247 jufi 3665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3666: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3667: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3668: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3669:
3670: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3671: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.301 jose 3673:
3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3675: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3676: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3677: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3678: </strong></font><br>
3679:
3680: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3681: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3682: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3683: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3684: Giving way to
3685: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3686: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3687: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3688: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3689: <p>
1.247 jufi 3690: </ul>
1.65 louis 3691:
1.69 deraadt 3692: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3693: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3696: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3697: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3698: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3699:
3700: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3701: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3702: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3703: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3704: <p>
1.88 louis 3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3707: <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 3708: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3709:
3710: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3711: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3712: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3713: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3714: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3715: <p>
1.60 louis 3716:
1.247 jufi 3717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3718: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3719: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3720: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3721: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3722:
3723: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3724: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3725: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3726: <p>
1.58 louis 3727:
1.247 jufi 3728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3729: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3730: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3731:
3732: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3733: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3734: <p>
1.53 louis 3735:
1.247 jufi 3736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3737: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3738: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3739: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3740:
3741: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3742: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3743: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3744: <p>
1.99 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3747: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3748: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3749:
3750: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3751: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3752: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3753: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3754: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3755:
1.247 jufi 3756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3757: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3758: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3759: </strong></font><br>
3760:
3761: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3762: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3763: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3764: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3765: <p>
3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3768: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3769: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3770: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3771:
3772: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3773: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3774: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3777: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3778: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3779:
3780: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3781: in
1.247 jufi 3782: <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 3783: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3784: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3785: <p>
1.53 louis 3786:
1.247 jufi 3787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3788: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3789: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3790: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3791: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3792:
1.58 louis 3793: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3794: <p>
1.301 jose 3795:
3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3797: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3798: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3799: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3800: Informacyjny, January 2000
3801: </strong></font><br>
3802:
3803: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3804: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3805: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3806: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3807: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3808: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3809: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3810: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3811: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3812: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3813: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3814: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3815: <p>
3816:
3817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3818: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3819: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3820: </strong></font><br>
3821:
3822: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3823: <p>
3824: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3825:
1.69 deraadt 3826: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3827: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3828:
1.247 jufi 3829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3830: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3831: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3832: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3833: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3834:
1.58 louis 3835: Kurt Seifried
3836: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3837: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3838: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3839: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3840:
1.247 jufi 3841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3842: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3843: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3844: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3845:
3846: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3847: <p>
1.96 louis 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3850: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3851: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3852: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3853: </strong></font><br>
3854:
3855: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3856: <p>
3857:
3858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3859: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3860: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3861: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3862:
3863: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3864: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3865: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3866: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3867: <p>
1.247 jufi 3868: </ul>
1.86 louis 3869:
1.69 deraadt 3870: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3871: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3874: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3875: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3876: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3877:
3878: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3879: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3880: <p>
1.61 louis 3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3883: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3884: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3885: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3886: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3887:
3888: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3889: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3890: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3891: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3892: right -- or at least strives to".
3893: <p>
1.48 louis 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3896: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3897: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3898: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3899: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3900: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3901: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3902: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3903: <p>
1.61 louis 3904:
1.247 jufi 3905: <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 3906: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3907: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3908:
3909: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3910: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3911: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3912: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3913: <p>
1.46 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3916: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3917: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3918: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3919:
3920: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3921: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3922: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3925: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3926: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3927: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3928:
3929: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3930: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3931: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3932: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3933: <p>
1.247 jufi 3934: </ul>
1.70 louis 3935:
1.69 deraadt 3936: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3937: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3938:
1.247 jufi 3939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3940: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3941: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3942: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3943: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3944:
3945: Kurt Seifried
3946: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3947: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3948: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3949: <p>
1.44 philen 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <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 3952: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3953: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3954:
3955: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3956: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <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 3959: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3960: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3961:
3962: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3963: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3964:
1.247 jufi 3965: <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 3966: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3967: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3968:
3969: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3970: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3971: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3972: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3973: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3974:
1.247 jufi 3975: <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 3976: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3977: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3978:
1.36 louis 3979: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3980: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3981:
1.247 jufi 3982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3983: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3984: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3985: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3986:
3987: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3988: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3989: </ul>
1.38 louis 3990:
1.69 deraadt 3991: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3992: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <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 3995: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3996: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3997:
3998: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3999: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4000: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4001:
1.113 naddy 4002: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4003: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4004: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4005: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4006:
4007: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4008: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4009: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4010: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4011: <blockquote>
4012: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4013: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4014: <br>
4015: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4016: </code>
4017: </blockquote>
4018: <p>
4019:
1.247 jufi 4020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4021: <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 4022: <p>
4023:
4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4025: <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 4026: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4027:
4028: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4029: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4030: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4031: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4032:
1.247 jufi 4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4034: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4035: Sept. 28, 1999
4036: </strong></font><br>
4037:
4038: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4039: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4040: translating and reprinting articles from
4041: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4042: <p>
4043:
4044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4045: <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 4046: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4047:
4048: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4049: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4050: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4051: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4052: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4053: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4054: <p>
1.19 louis 4055:
1.113 naddy 4056: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4057: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4058: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4059:
4060: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4061: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4062: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4063: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4064: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4065: <p>
1.16 louis 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4068: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4069: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4070: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4071:
1.57 louis 4072: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4073: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4074: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4075: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4078: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4079: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4080: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4081:
1.113 naddy 4082: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4083:
1.247 jufi 4084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4085: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4086: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4087: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4088:
1.23 louis 4089: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4090: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4091: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4092: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4093: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4094: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4095:
1.247 jufi 4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4097: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4098: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4099: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4100:
1.199 pvalchev 4101: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4102: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4103: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4104: installation.
1.113 naddy 4105: <p>
1.47 louis 4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4108: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4109: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4110: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4111:
1.301 jose 4112: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4113: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4114: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4115: </ul>
1.57 louis 4116:
1.69 deraadt 4117: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4118: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4119:
1.247 jufi 4120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4121: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4122: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4123: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4124:
4125: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4126: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4127: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4128: <p>
1.12 louis 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4131: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4132: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4133: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4134:
4135: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4136: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4137: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4138: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4139: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4140: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4141: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4142: <p>
1.247 jufi 4143: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4144:
1.69 deraadt 4145: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4146: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4149: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4150: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4151:
4152: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4153: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4154: available."
1.113 naddy 4155: <p>
1.301 jose 4156:
4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4158: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4159: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4160: </strong></font><br>
4161:
4162: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4163: <p>
1.247 jufi 4164: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4165:
1.69 deraadt 4166: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4167: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4168:
1.247 jufi 4169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4170: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4171: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4172:
4173: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4174: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4175: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4176: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4177: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4178: <p>
1.33 louis 4179:
1.247 jufi 4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4181: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4182: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4183: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4184:
1.113 naddy 4185: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4186: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4187: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4188: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4189: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4190: <p>
1.247 jufi 4191: </ul>
1.57 louis 4192:
1.69 deraadt 4193: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4194: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4195:
1.247 jufi 4196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4197: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4198: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4199: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4200:
4201: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4202: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4203: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4204:
1.247 jufi 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4206: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4207: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4208: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4209: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4210:
4211: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4212: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4215: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4216:
1.113 naddy 4217: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4218:
1.247 jufi 4219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4220: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4221: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4222: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4223:
4224: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4225: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4226: </ul>
1.23 louis 4227:
1.69 deraadt 4228: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4229: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4230:
1.247 jufi 4231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4232: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4233: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4234:
4235: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4236: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4237: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4238:
1.247 jufi 4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4240: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4241: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4242: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4243:
4244: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4245: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4246: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4247: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4248: </ul>
1.57 louis 4249:
1.69 deraadt 4250: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4251: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4252:
1.247 jufi 4253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4254: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4255: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4256: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4257:
4258: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4259: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4260: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4261: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4262: <p>
1.15 louis 4263:
1.247 jufi 4264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4265: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4266: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4267: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4268:
4269: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4270: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4271: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4272: columns."
1.113 naddy 4273: <p>
1.247 jufi 4274: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4275:
1.69 deraadt 4276: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4277: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4278:
1.247 jufi 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4280: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4281: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4282: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4283:
4284: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4285: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4286:
1.113 naddy 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4288: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4289: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4290:
4291: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4292: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4293: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4294: </ul>
1.57 louis 4295:
1.69 deraadt 4296: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4297: <ul>
1.301 jose 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4299: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4300: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4301: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4302:
4303: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4304: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4305: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4306: <p>
4307:
4308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4309: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4310: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4311: Nov 13, 1998 and
4312: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4313: Datateknik</a>,
4314: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4315:
1.380 saad 4316: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4317: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4318: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4319: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4320: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4321:
1.113 naddy 4322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4323: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4324: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4325: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4326:
1.222 miod 4327: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4328: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4329: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4330: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4331: <p>
1.247 jufi 4332: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4333:
1.69 deraadt 4334: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4335: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4336:
1.247 jufi 4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4338: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4339: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4340:
1.69 deraadt 4341: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4342: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4343: <p>
1.247 jufi 4344: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4345:
1.69 deraadt 4346: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4347: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4350: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4351: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4352: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4353:
1.383 jcs 4354: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4355: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4356: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4357:
1.247 jufi 4358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4359: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4360: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4361: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4362: <p>
1.247 jufi 4363: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4364:
1.69 deraadt 4365: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4366: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4367:
1.247 jufi 4368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4369: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4370: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4371: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4372: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4373: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4374:
4375: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4376: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4377: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4378: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4379: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4380: <p>
1.247 jufi 4381: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4382:
4383: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4384: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4385:
1.247 jufi 4386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4387: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4388: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4389:
1.69 deraadt 4390: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4391: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4392: <p>
1.112 naddy 4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4395: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4396:
1.292 camield 4397: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4398: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4399: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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