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1.424 ! ian 19: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
! 24: Closed Source Hardware</a>
! 25: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
! 26: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
! 27: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
! 28: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
! 29: operating systems.
! 30: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
! 31: OpenBSD on his firewall.
! 32: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
! 33: systems, he writes:
! 34: <blockquote>
! 35: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
! 36: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
! 37: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
! 38: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
! 39: to the operating system...
! 40: <br/>
! 41: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
! 42: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
! 43: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
! 44: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
! 45: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
! 46: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
! 47: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
! 48: in a closed source operating system).
! 49: <br/>
! 50: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
! 51: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
! 52: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
! 53: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
! 54: </blockquote>
! 55: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
! 56: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
! 57: their hardware and software operates.
! 58: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
! 59: reverse-engineering the
! 60: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
! 61: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
! 62: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
! 63: <p>
! 64: </ul>
! 65:
1.417 pvalchev 66: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
67: <ul>
1.421 ian 68:
1.417 pvalchev 69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 70: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
71: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
72: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
73: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
74: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
75: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
76: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
77: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
78: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
79: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
80: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 81: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 82: <p>
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 84: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
85: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
86: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
87: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
88: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
89: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
90: it claims to do".
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 94: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
95: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
96: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
97: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
98: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 99: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 100: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
101: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
102: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
103: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
104: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
105: (yes, this is a hint).
106: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
107: picked up on the
108: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
109: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
110: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
111: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
112: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 116: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
117: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
118: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
119: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
120: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
121: questions about the significance and rationale behind
122: the current efforts.
123: <p>
124: </ul>
125:
1.407 henning 126: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
127: <ul>
128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 129: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
130: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
131: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
132: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
133: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
134: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
135: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
136: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
141: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
142: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
143: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
144: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
145: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
146: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
147: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
148: of the important changes in 3.6.
149: </p>
150:
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 152: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
153: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
154: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
155: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
156: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
157: overflow attacks... because
158: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
159: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
160: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
161: and propolice.
162: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
163: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
164: and that's when the science falls apart."
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 168: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
169: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
170: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
171: Starts with the question:
172: <blockquote>
173: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
174: <br/>
175: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
176: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
177: <br/>
178: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
179: Should we believe them?"
180: </blockquote>
181: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
182: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
183: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
184: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
185: for your mail, web and other online activities.
186: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 190: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
191: Simple Simon</a>,
192: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
193: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
194: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
195: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
196: routing/firewall, and more.
197: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
198: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
199: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
200: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
201: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
202: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
203: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
204: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
205: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
206: </blockquote>
207: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
208: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
209: <p>
210:
211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 212: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
213: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 214: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 215: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 216: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
217: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
218: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 219: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 220: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
221: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
222: in spite of it
223: (registration required, but worth it).
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
227: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
228: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
229: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
230: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
231: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
232: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
233: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 234: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 235: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
236: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
237: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
238: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
239: <p>
240:
241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 242: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
243: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
244: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
245: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
246: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
247: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
248: <blockquote>
249: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
250: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
251: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
252: a lot of analysis.
253: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
254: </blockquote>
255: <p>
256: </ul>
257:
1.400 marco 258: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
259: <ul>
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 261: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
262: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
263: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
264: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
265: UNIX-like systems.
266: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
267: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
268: <p>
269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 270: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
271: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 272: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
273: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
274: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
275: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
276: At one point, the article states:
277: <blockquote>
278: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
279: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
280: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
281: </blockquote>
282: And then quotes Theo as saying:
283: <blockquote>
284: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
285: fewer are reading or auditing code."
286: </blockquote>
287: <p>
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
289: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
290: marks its fifth birthday</a>
291: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
292: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
293: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
294: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
295: required).
296: <p>
297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 298: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
299: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
300: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
301: </strong></font><br>
302: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
303: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
304: <p>
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 306: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
307: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 308: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 309: </strong></font><br>
310: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
311: <p>
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 313: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
314: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 315: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 316: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 317: 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 318: <p>
319: </ul>
320:
1.396 henning 321: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
322: <ul>
323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 324: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
325: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
326: Unix Review, July, 2004
327: </strong></font><br>
328: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
329: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
330: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
331: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
332: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
333: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
334: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
335: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
336: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
337: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
338: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
339: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
340: and even spelling/wording errors.
341: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
342: <p>
343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 344: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 345: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
346: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
347: </strong></font><br>
348: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
349: <p>
350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 351: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 352: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
353: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
354: </strong></font><br>
355: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
356: <p>
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 358: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
359: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
360: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
361: </strong></font><br>
362: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
363: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
364: <p>
365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 366: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
367: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
368: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
369: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
370: <p>
371: </ul>
372:
1.405 jolan 373: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
374: <ul>
375: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
376: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
377: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
378: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
379: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
380: details on how funds are dispersed.
381: <p>
382: </ul>
383:
1.393 david 384: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
385: <ul>
386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 387: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
388: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
389: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
390: </strong></font><br>
391: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
392: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
393: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
394: on inserting large number of SQL records.
395: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
396: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
397: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 401: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
402: Secure by Default</a>,
403: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
404: </strong></font><br>
405: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
406: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
410: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
411: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
412: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
413: </strong></font><br>
414: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
415: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
416: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
417: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
418: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
419: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
420: <p>
421:
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
423: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
424: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
425: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
426: </strong></font><br>
427: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
428: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
429: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
430: <p>
431:
432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
433: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
434: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
435: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
436: </strong></font><br>
437: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
438: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
439: <p>
440: </ul>
441:
1.388 mcbride 442: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
443: <ul>
1.394 jolan 444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
446: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
447: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
448: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
449: </strong></font><br>
450: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
451: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
452: available for sparc64.
453: <p>
454:
1.390 beck 455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 456: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
457: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
458: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
459: </strong></font><br>
460: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
461: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
462: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
463: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 467: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
468: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 469: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 470: </strong></font><br>
471: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
472: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
473: it does: CARP provides sharing
474: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
475: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
476: detail to get you started using it.
477: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
478: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
479: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
480: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
481: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
482: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
483: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 484: <p>
1.391 ian 485:
486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 487: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 488: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
489: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 490: </strong></font><br>
491: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 492: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 493: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 494: <p>
1.388 mcbride 495:
496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
497: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
498: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 499: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 500: </strong></font><br>
501: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
502: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
503: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
504: unencumbered by patents.
505: <p>
506: </ul>
507:
1.378 henning 508: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
509: <ul>
1.384 jose 510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 512: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
513: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
514: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
515: </strong></font><br>
516: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
517: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
518: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
519: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
520: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
521: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
522: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
523: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
524: in the page tables."
525: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 529: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
530: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
531: </strong></font><br>
532: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
533: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
534: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
535: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 536: <p>
1.384 jose 537:
1.378 henning 538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 539: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
540: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 541: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
542: </strong></font><br>
543: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
544: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
545: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
546: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
547: (quote:
548: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
549: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 550: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 551: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
552: the other developers for their work on the system.
553: <p>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 556: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
557: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
558: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 559: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 560: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
561: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
562: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
563: too.
564: <p>
565:
566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 567: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
568: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 569: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 570: OpenBSD source code using
571: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
572: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
573: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
574: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
575: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
576: <p>
577: </ul>
578:
1.374 jose 579: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
580: <ul>
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 582: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 583: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
584: </strong></font><br>
585: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
586: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
587: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
588: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
589: it."
590: <p>
591:
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 593: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
594: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
595: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
596: </strong></font><br/>
597: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
598: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
599: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
600: <p>
601: </ul>
602:
1.369 ian 603: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
604: <ul>
605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 606: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
607: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
608: </strong></font><br/>
609: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
610: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
611: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
612: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 616: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
617: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
618: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
619: </strong></font><br/>
620: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
621: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
622: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
623: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
624: form factor.
625: <p>
626:
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
628: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
629: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
630: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
631: Features</a>,
632: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
633: </strong></font><br/>
634: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
635: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
636: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
637: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
638: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
639: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
640: <p>
641: This article can also be found online at:
642: <ul>
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 644: <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 645: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
646: </strong></font>
647: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
648: </ul>
649: <p>
1.392 david 650:
1.371 jose 651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 652: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
653: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 654: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
655: </strong></font><br/>
656: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
657: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
658: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 659: <p>
1.371 jose 660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 662: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 663: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 664: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 665: </strong></font><br/>
666: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
667: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
668: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
669: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
670: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
671: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
672: and its history with OpenBSD.
673: </ul>
674:
1.368 henning 675: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
676: <ul>
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 678: [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 679: </strong></font><br>
680: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
681: </ul>
682:
1.364 jose 683: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
684: <ul>
685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 686: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
687: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
688: UNIX Review,
689: July, 2003.
690: </strong></font><br>
691: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
692: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
693: who want more information.
694: <p>
695:
696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 697: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
698: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
699: Government Computer News,
700: July 22, 2003.
701: </strong></font><br>
702: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
703: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
704: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
705: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
706: <p>
707:
708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
709: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
710: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
711: SANS Institute,
712: July 22, 2003.
713: </strong></font><br>
714: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 715: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 716: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
717: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
718: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
719: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
720: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
721: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
722: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
723: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
724: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 728: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
729: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
730: OnLamp.com,
731: July 17, 2003.
732: </strong></font><br>
733: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
734: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
735: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
736: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
737: have been working on.
738:
739: </ul>
740:
1.356 jose 741: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 742: <ul>
743:
744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 745: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
746: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
747: UNIX Review,
748: June, 2003.
749: </strong></font><br>
750: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
751: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
752: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
753: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
754: <p>
755:
756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 757: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
758: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
759: eWeek,
760: June 23, 2003.
761: </strong></font><br>
762: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
763: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
764: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
765: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
766: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
767: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
768: <p>
769:
770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 771: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
772: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
773: Software Development Online,
774: June, 2003.
775: </strong></font><br>
776: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
777: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
778: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
779: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
780: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
781: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
782: current activities.
783: <p>
784:
785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 786: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
787: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 788: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
789: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
790: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
791: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 792: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 793: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
794: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
795: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 796: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 797: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
798: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 799: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 800: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
801: decisions.
802: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
803: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 804: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 805: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 806: <p>
807:
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 809: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
810: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
811: Page 58, eWeek,
812: June 2, 2003.
813: </strong></font><br>
814: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
815: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
816: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
817: been addressed in -current.
818: <p>
819:
1.356 jose 820: </ul>
821:
822: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
823: <ul>
824:
1.355 jose 825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 826: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
827: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
828: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
829: </strong></font><br>
830: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
831: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
832: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
833: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
834: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
835: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
836: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 840: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
841: Beyond Linux</a>,
842: InfoWorld,
843: May 23, 2003.
844: </strong></font><br>
845: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
846: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
847: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
848: compared to the GPL.
849: <p>
850:
851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 852: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
853: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
854: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 855: May 17, 2003.
856: </strong></font><br>
857: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
858: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
859: the business section and half of another page inside
860: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
861: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
862: in talking about the project's history and goals.
863: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
864: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
865: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
866: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 867: <br>
868: This article can also be found online at:
869: <ul>
870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
871: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
872: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
873: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
874: May 17, 2003
875: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 876: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
878: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
879: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
880: Montreal Gazette,
881: May 21, 2003
882: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 883: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 884: <p>
1.346 ian 885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 887: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 888: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 889: May 7, 2003.
890: </strong></font><br>
891: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
892: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
893: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
894: <p>
895:
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 897: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
898: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
899: OsOpinion,
900: May 6, 2003.
901: </strong></font><br>
902: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
903: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
904: <br>
905: This article can also be found online at:
906: <ul>
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
908: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
909: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
910: NewsFactor Network.
911: </strong></font>
912: </ul>
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 916: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 917: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
918: ITBusiness,
919: May 2, 2003.
920: </strong></font><br>
921: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
922: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
923: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
924: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 928: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
929: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
930: InfoWorld,
931: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 932: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 933: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
934: <br>
935: This article can also be found online at:
936: <ul>
937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
938: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
939: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
940: IDG Singapore.
941: </strong></font>
942: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 943: <p>
944:
1.339 jose 945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
946: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
947: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 948: ZDNet,
949: May 1, 2003.
950: </strong></font><br>
951: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 952: someone using parts from previous articles.
953: <br>
1.341 deraadt 954: This article can also be found online at:
955: <ul>
956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
957: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
958: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
959: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 960: </strong></font>
961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
962: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
963: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
964: CNET News.com.
965: </strong></font>
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
967: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
968: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
969: ZDNet UK.
970: </strong></font>
971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
972: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
973: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
974: Help Net Security, Croatia.
975: </strong></font>
976: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 977: <p>
1.339 jose 978:
1.341 deraadt 979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 980: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 981: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
982: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
983: May 1, 2003.
984: </strong></font><br>
985: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
986: that have been added
987: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
988: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
989: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 990: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 991: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
992: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
993: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 994: <p>
995:
996: </ul>
997:
1.253 ian 998: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
999: <ul>
1.255 ian 1000:
1.260 ian 1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1002: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1003: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1004: TechRepublic,
1005: April 28, 2003.
1006: </strong></font><br>
1007: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1008: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1009: work.<br>
1010: Can also be found online at:
1011: <ul>
1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1013: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1014: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1015: ZDNet UK.
1016: </strong></font>
1017: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1018: <p>
1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1021: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1022: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1023: IDG,
1024: April 24, 2003.
1025: </strong></font><br>
1026: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1027: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1028: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1029: Can also be found online at:
1030: <ul>
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1032: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1033: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1034: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1035: </strong></font>
1036: </ul>
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1040: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1041: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1042: Slate,
1043: April 24, 2003.
1044: </strong></font><br>
1045: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1046: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1047: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1048: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1049: <p>
1050:
1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1052: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1053: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1054: April 24, 2003.
1055: </strong></font><br>
1056: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1057: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1058: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1059: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1063: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1064: April 24, 2003.
1065: </strong></font><br>
1066: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1067: the free software community".
1068: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1069: other articles.
1070: <p>
1071:
1072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1073: <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 1074: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1075: </strong></font><br>
1076: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1077: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1078: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1079: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1080: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1081: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1082: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1083: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1084: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1085: <br/>
1086: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1087: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1088: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1089: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1090: <br>
1091: Can also be found online at:
1092: <ul>
1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1094: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1095: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1096: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1097: </strong></font>
1098: </ul>
1.324 ian 1099: <p>
1100:
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1102: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1103: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1104: </strong></font><br>
1105: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1106: article above.
1107: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1108: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1109: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1110: <br>
1111: Can also be found online at:
1112: <ul>
1113: <li>
1114: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1115: </strong></font>
1116: </ul>
1.324 ian 1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1120: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1121: </strong></font><br>
1122: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1123: <p>
1124:
1125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1126: <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.
1127: </strong></font><br>
1128: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1129: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1130: <p>
1131:
1132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1133: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1134: April 23, 2003.
1135: </strong></font><br>
1136: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1140: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1141: April 22, 2003.
1142: </strong></font><br>
1143: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1147: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1148: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1149: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1150: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1151: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1152: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1153: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1154: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1155: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1156: Can also be found online at:
1157: <ul>
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1159: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1160: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1161: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1162: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1164: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1165: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1166: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1167: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1168: </ul>
1169: <p>
1170:
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1172: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1173: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1174: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1175: </strong></font><br>
1176: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1177: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1178: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1179: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1180: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1181: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1182: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1183: <p>
1184:
1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1186: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1187: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1188: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1189: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1190: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1191: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1192: at UPenn and DARPA.
1193: <p>
1194:
1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1196: [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,
1197: France
1.315 deraadt 1198: April 18, 2003.
1199: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1200: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1201: <p>
1202:
1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1204: [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 1205: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1206: </strong></font><br>
1207: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1208: <p>
1209:
1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1211: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1212: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1213: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1214: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1215: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1216: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1217: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1218: <p>
1219:
1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1221: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1222: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1223: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1226: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1227: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1228: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1232: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1233: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1234: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1235: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1236: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1237: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1238: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1239: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1240: Can also be found online at:
1241: <ul>
1242: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1243: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1244: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1245: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1246: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1247: <p>
1248:
1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1250: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1251: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1252: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1253: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1254: </strong></font><br>
1255: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1256: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1257: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1258: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1259: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1260:
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1262: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1263: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1264: New York Times.
1265: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1266:
1.273 deraadt 1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1268: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1269: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1270: ABC News.
1271: </strong></font>
1272:
1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1274: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1275: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1276: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1277: </strong></font>
1278:
1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1280: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1281: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1282: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1283: </strong></font>
1284:
1285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1286: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1287: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1288: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1289: </strong></font>
1290:
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1292: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1293: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1294: Times Daily, AL.
1295: </strong></font>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1298: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1299: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1300: Boston.com, MA.
1301: </strong></font>
1302:
1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1304: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1305: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1306: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1307: </strong></font>
1308:
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1310: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1311: [Article was pulled]</a>
1312: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1313: </strong></font>
1314:
1315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1316: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1317: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1318: Infoshop News.
1319: </strong></font>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1322: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1323: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1324: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1325: </strong></font>
1326:
1327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1328: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1329: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1330: Raleigh News, NC.
1331: </strong></font>
1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1334: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1335: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1336: Napa News, CA.
1337: </strong></font>
1338:
1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1340: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1341: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1342: NEPA News, PA.
1343: </strong></font>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1346: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1347: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1348: Wired News.
1349: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1350: <br>
1351: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1352: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1353: [JAPANESE]
1354: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1355: Wired News Japan</a>
1356: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1357:
1.271 deraadt 1358: </ul>
1359: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1360: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1361: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1362: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1363: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1364: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1365: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1366: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1367: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1368: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1369: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1370: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1371: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1372: <p>
1373: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1376: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1377: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1378: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1379: </strong></font>
1380:
1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1382: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1383: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1384: Miami Herald, FL.
1385: </strong></font>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1388: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1389: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1390: </strong></font>
1391:
1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1393: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1394: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1395: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1396: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1399: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1400: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1401: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1402: ABC News.
1403: </strong></font>
1404:
1.276 deraadt 1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1406: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1407: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1408: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1409: </strong></font>
1410:
1.286 dhartmei 1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1412: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1413: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1414: Wilmington Star, NC.
1415: </strong></font>
1416:
1.300 jose 1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1418: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1419: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1420: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1421: </strong></font>
1422:
1.309 jose 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1424: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1425: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1426: Globe Technology.
1427: </strong></font>
1428:
1.263 deraadt 1429: </ul>
1.262 beck 1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1433: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1434: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1435: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1436: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1437: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1438: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1439: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1440: <p>
1441:
1442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1443: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1444: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1445: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1446: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1447: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1448: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1449: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1450: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1451: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1452: and simply restates other press reports.
1453: <p>
1454:
1455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1456: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1457: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1458: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1459: </strong></font><br>
1460: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1461: <p>
1462:
1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1464: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1465: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1466: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1467: </strong></font><br>
1468: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1469: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1470: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1471: <p>
1472:
1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1474: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1475: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1476: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1477: April 17, 2003.
1478: </strong></font><br>
1479: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1480: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1481: Tech Anthems</a>
1482: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1483: 4 so far.
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1487: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1488: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1489: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1490: </strong></font><br>
1491: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1492: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1493: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1494: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1495: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1496: Goes on to say:
1497: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1498: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1499: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1500: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1501: This article is also found online at:
1502: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1504: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1505: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1506: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1507: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1509: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1510: ZDnet</a>,
1511: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1512: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1514: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1515: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1516: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1517: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1518: </ul>
1.260 ian 1519: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1520:
1.260 ian 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1522: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1523: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1524: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1525: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1526: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1527: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1528: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1529: without notice or justification.
1530: <p>
1531:
1532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1533: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1534: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1535: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1536: </strong></font><br>
1537: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1538: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1539: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1540: effective today, without any warning..."
1541: <p>
1.257 ian 1542:
1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1544: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1545: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1546: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1547: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1548: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1549: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1550: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1551: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1552: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1553: <p>
1554:
1555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1556: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1557: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1558: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1559: </strong></font><br>
1560: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1561: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1562: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1563: quoting two of them:
1564: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1565: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1566: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1567: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1568: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1569: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1570: <p>
1571:
1.255 ian 1572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1573: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1574: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1575: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1576: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1577: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1581: [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 1582: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1583: </strong></font><br>
1584: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1585: <p>
1586:
1587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1588: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1589: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1590: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1591: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1592: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1593: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1594: security experts for more than three decades."
1595: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1596: <p>
1.261 ian 1597:
1.254 drahn 1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1599: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1600: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1601: </strong></font><br>
1602: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1603: <p>
1604:
1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1606: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1607: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1608: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1611: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1612: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1613: <p>
1614:
1615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1616: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1617: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1618: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1619: </strong></font><br>
1620: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1621: from US DARPA.
1622: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1623: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1624: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1625: the BSD license.
1626: <p>
1627: </ul>
1628:
1.251 ian 1629: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1630: <ul>
1631:
1632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1633: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1634: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1635: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1636: </strong></font><br>
1637:
1638: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1639: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1640: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1641: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1642: <p>
1643:
1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1645: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1646: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1647: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1648: </strong></font><br>
1649: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1650: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1651: Mentions
1652: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1653: and
1654: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1655: programs.
1656: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1657: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1658: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1659: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1660: <p>
1.325 ian 1661: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1662: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1663:
1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1665: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1666: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1667: </strong></font><br>
1668: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1669: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1670: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1671: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1672: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1673: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1674: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1675: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1676: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1677: put into service."
1678: <p>
1679: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1680: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1681: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1682: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1683: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1684: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1685: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1686: computers with security features."
1687: <p>
1.329 ian 1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1690: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1691: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1692: Slate,
1693: March 3, 2003.
1694: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1695: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1696: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1697: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1698: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1699: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1700: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1701: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1702: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1703: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1704: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1705: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1706: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1707: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1708: of more secure open-source solutions like
1709: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1710: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1711: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1712: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1713: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1714: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1715: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1716: the Beltway."
1717: <p>
1.251 ian 1718: </ul>
1719:
1.249 jufi 1720: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1721: <ul>
1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1723: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1724: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1725: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1726: </strong></font><br>
1727: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1728: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1729: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1730: <p>
1.334 ian 1731:
1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1733: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1734: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1735: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1736: </strong></font><br>
1737: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1738: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1739: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1740: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1741: "... the hypothetical question ...
1742: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1743: <br>
1744: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1745: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1746: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1747: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1748: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1749: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1750: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1751: support network security.
1752: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1753: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1754: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1755: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1756: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1757: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1758: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1759: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1760: <br>
1761: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1762: <p>
1763:
1.249 jufi 1764: </ul>
1765:
1.246 jufi 1766: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1767: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1768:
1.247 jufi 1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1770: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1771: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1772: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1773: </strong></font><br>
1774: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1775: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1776: <p>
1777:
1.247 jufi 1778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1779: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1780: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1781: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1782: </strong></font><br>
1783: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1784: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1785: <p>
1786:
1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1788: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1789: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1790: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1791: </strong></font><br>
1792: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1793: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1794: <p>
1.247 jufi 1795: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1796:
1.244 jufi 1797: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1798: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1799:
1.247 jufi 1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1801: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1802: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1803: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1804: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1805: </strong></font><br>
1806: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1807: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1808: md5 digests.
1809: <p>
1810:
1.247 jufi 1811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1812: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1813: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1814: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1815: </strong></font><br>
1816: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1817: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1818: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1819: right the first time."
1820: <p>
1.247 jufi 1821: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1822:
1823:
1824: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1825: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1826:
1.247 jufi 1827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1828: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1829: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1830: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1831: </strong></font><br>
1832: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1833: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1834: part 6</a>.
1835: <p>
1836:
1.247 jufi 1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1838: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1839: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1840: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1841: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1842: </strong></font><br>
1843: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1844: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1845: <p>
1.301 jose 1846:
1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1848: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1849: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1850: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1851: </strong></font><br>
1852:
1853: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1854: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1855: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1856: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1857: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1858: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1859: <i>Here's the
1860: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1861: <p>
1.247 jufi 1862: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1863:
1864: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1865: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1866:
1.247 jufi 1867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1868: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1869: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1870: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1871: </strong></font><br>
1872: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1873: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1874: <p>
1875:
1.247 jufi 1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1877: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1878: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1879: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1880: </strong></font><br>
1881: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1882: this time using pf.
1883: <p>
1.247 jufi 1884: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1885:
1886: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1887: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1888:
1.247 jufi 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1890: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1891: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1892: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1893: </strong></font><br>
1894: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1895: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1896: their rotation.
1897: <p>
1898:
1.247 jufi 1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1900: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1901: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1902: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1903: </strong></font><br>
1904: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1905: <p>
1.247 jufi 1906: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1907:
1.239 jufi 1908: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1909: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1910:
1.247 jufi 1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1912: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1913: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1914: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1915: </strong></font><br>
1916: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1917: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1918: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1919: <p>
1920:
1.247 jufi 1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1922: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1923: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1924: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1925: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1926: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1927: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1928: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1929: <p>
1.247 jufi 1930: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1931:
1.235 lebel 1932: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1933: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1934:
1.239 jufi 1935:
1.247 jufi 1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1937: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1938: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1939: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1940: </strong></font><br>
1941: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1942: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1943: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1944: <p>
1.301 jose 1945:
1.247 jufi 1946: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1947:
1.228 horacio 1948: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1949: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1950:
1.247 jufi 1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1952: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1953: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1954: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1955: </strong></font><br>
1956: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1957: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1958: <p>
1959:
1.247 jufi 1960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1961: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1962: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1963: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1964: </strong></font><br>
1965: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1966: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1967: <p>
1968:
1.247 jufi 1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1970: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1971: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1972: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1973: </strong></font><br>
1974: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1975: on the desktop of his parents.
1976: <p>
1977:
1.247 jufi 1978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1979: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1980: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1981: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1982: </strong></font><br>
1983: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1984: using IPFilter.
1985:
1986: <p>
1987:
1.247 jufi 1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1989: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1990: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1991: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1992: </strong></font><br>
1993: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1994: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1995: perspectives of the four OS.
1996: <br>
1997: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1998: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1999: <p>
2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2002: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2003: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2004: software and security</a>,
2005: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2006: </strong></font><br>
2007:
2008: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2009: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2010: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2011: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2012: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2013: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2014: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2015: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2016: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2017: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2018: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2019: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2020: <p>
1.247 jufi 2021: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2022:
1.225 horacio 2023: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2024: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2025:
1.247 jufi 2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2027: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2028: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2029: Interview</a>,
2030: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2031: </strong></font><br>
2032:
2033: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2034: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2035: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2036: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2037: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2038: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2039: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2040: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2041: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2042: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2043: of choice.
2044: <p>
1.247 jufi 2045: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2046:
2047: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2048: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2051: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2052: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2053: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2054: </strong></font><br>
2055:
2056: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2057: <p>
2058:
1.247 jufi 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2060: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2061: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2062: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2063: </strong></font><br>
2064:
2065: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2066: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2067: <p>
1.247 jufi 2068: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2069:
1.218 horacio 2070: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2071: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2074: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2075: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2076: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2077: </strong></font><br>
2078:
2079: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2080: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2081: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2082: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2083: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2084: subjects. Worth a read.
2085: <p>
2086:
2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2089: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2090: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2091: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2095: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2096: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2097: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2098: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2099: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2100: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2101: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2102: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2103: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2104: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2105: on other operating systems.<br>
2106: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2107: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2108: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2109: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2110: <p>
2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2113: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2114: Operating System 2010</a>,
2115: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2116: </strong></font><br>
2117:
2118: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2119: covering the level of software integration into the core
2120: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2121: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2122: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2123: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2124: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2125: <p>
2126:
1.247 jufi 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2128: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2129: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2130: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2131: </strong></font><br>
2132:
2133: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2134: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2135: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2136: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2137: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2138: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2139: <p>
1.247 jufi 2140: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2141:
1.210 jufi 2142: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2143: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2146: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2147: Already a Contender</a>,
2148: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2149: </strong></font><br>
2150:
2151: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2152: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2153: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2154: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2155: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2156: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2157: <p>
2158:
1.247 jufi 2159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2160: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2161: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2162: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2163: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2164:
1.224 horacio 2165: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2166: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2167: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2168: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2169: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2170: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2171: <p>
1.247 jufi 2172: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2173:
2174: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2175: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2176:
1.247 jufi 2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2178: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2179: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2180: Division</a>,
2181: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2182: </strong></font><br>
2183:
2184: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2185: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2186: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2187: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2188: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2189: investment</em>.<br>
2190: The implementation details can be seen on their
2191: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2192: <p>
2193:
1.247 jufi 2194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2195: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2196: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2197: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2198: </strong></font><br>
2199:
2200: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2201: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2202: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2203: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2204: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2205: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2206: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2207: <p>
2208:
2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2210: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2211: Thinking about Security</a>,
2212: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2213: </strong></font><br>
2214:
2215: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2216: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2217: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2218: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2219: to time.<br>
2220: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2221: system and just the most secure system.
2222: <p>
2223:
1.247 jufi 2224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2225: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2226: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2227: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2228: </strong></font><br>
2229:
2230: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2231: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2232: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2233: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2234: choice:<br>
2235: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2236: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2237: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2238: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2239: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2240: network security devices and as such must be well
2241: armored."</em><br>
2242: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2243: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2244: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2245: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2246: <br>
2247: Bravo!
2248: <p>
1.247 jufi 2249: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2250:
1.207 ian 2251: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2252: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2253:
1.247 jufi 2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2255: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2256: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2257: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2258:
1.207 ian 2259: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2260: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2261: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2262: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2263: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2264: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2265: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2266: <p>
1.247 jufi 2267: </ul>
1.207 ian 2268:
1.194 jufi 2269: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2270: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2271:
1.247 jufi 2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2273: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2274: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2275: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2276: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2277:
1.240 miod 2278: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2279: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2280: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2281: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2282: <p>
2283:
1.247 jufi 2284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2285: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2286: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2287: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2288:
2289: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2290: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2291: <p>
2292:
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2294: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2295: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2296: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2297:
2298: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2299: <p>
2300:
2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2302: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2303: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2304: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2305: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2306:
1.240 miod 2307: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2308: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2309: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2310: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2311: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2312: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2313: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2314: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2315: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2316: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2317: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2318: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2319: <p>
2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2322: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2323: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2324: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2325: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2326:
1.194 jufi 2327: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2328: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2329: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2330: <br>
2331: The new
2332: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2333: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2334: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2335: <p>
1.247 jufi 2336: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2337:
1.190 horacio 2338: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2339: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2342:
2343: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2344: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2345:
1.301 jose 2346:
1.191 jufi 2347: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2348: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2349:
2350: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2351: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2352:
1.212 horacio 2353: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2354: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2355: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2356:
1.211 horacio 2357: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2358: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2359: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2360:
1.247 jufi 2361: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2362: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2363:
1.247 jufi 2364: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2365: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2366:
1.212 horacio 2367: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2368: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2369: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2370:
2371: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2372: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2373:
2374: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2375: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2376:
1.301 jose 2377: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2378: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2379:
1.191 jufi 2380: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2381: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2382:
2383: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2384: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2385:
1.192 jufi 2386: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2387: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2388: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2389:
1.193 deraadt 2390: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2391: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2392: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2393:
1.247 jufi 2394: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2395: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2398: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2399: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2400:
1.213 horacio 2401: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2402: 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 2403: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2404:
1.190 horacio 2405: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2406: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2407: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2408: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2409: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2410: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2411: <p>
1.190 horacio 2412:
1.247 jufi 2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2414: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2415: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2416: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2417: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2418:
1.195 jufi 2419: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2420: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2421: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2422: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2423: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2424: <p>
2425:
1.247 jufi 2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2427: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2428: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2429: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2430: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2431:
1.191 jufi 2432: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2433: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2434: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2435: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2436: <p>
2437:
2438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2439: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2440: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2441: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2442:
2443: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2444: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2445: <p>
1.247 jufi 2446: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2447:
1.191 jufi 2448:
1.186 jufi 2449: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2450: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2451:
1.247 jufi 2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2453: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2454: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2455: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2456: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2457:
1.188 jufi 2458: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2459: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2460: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2461: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2462: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2463: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2464: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2465: <p>
2466:
1.301 jose 2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2468: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2469: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2470: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2471:
2472: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2473: <p>
1.191 jufi 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2476: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2477: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2478: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2479: </strong></font><br>
2480:
2481: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2482: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2483: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2484: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2485: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2486: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2487: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2488: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2489: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2490: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2491: familiar?
2492: <p>
1.247 jufi 2493: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2494:
1.178 louis 2495: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2496: <ul>
1.178 louis 2497:
1.247 jufi 2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2499: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2500: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2501: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2505: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2506: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2507: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2508: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2509: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2510: <p>
2511:
1.247 jufi 2512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2513: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2514: Open source under the hood</a>,
2515: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2516: </strong></font><br>
2517:
2518: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2519: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2520: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2521: <p>
2522:
1.247 jufi 2523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2524: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2525: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2526: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2527: </strong></font><br>
2528:
2529: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2530: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2531: <p>
1.247 jufi 2532: </ul>
1.179 louis 2533:
1.174 louis 2534:
1.175 louis 2535: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2536: <ul>
1.175 louis 2537:
1.247 jufi 2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2539: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2540: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2541: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2542: </strong></font><br>
2543:
2544: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2545: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2546: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2547: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2551: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2552: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2553: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2554: </strong></font><br>
2555:
2556: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2557: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2558: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2559: <p>
1.247 jufi 2560: </ul>
1.175 louis 2561:
1.176 louis 2562:
1.172 mickey 2563: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2564: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2567: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2568: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2569: </strong></font><br>
2570:
2571: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2572: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2573: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2574: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2575: <p>
2576:
1.247 jufi 2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2578: <a
1.269 deraadt 2579: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2580: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2581: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2582: </strong></font><br>
2583:
2584: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2585: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2586: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2587: <p>
2588:
1.247 jufi 2589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2590: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2591: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2592: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2593: </strong></font><br>
2594:
2595: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2596: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2597: <p>
2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2600: <a
1.269 deraadt 2601: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2602: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2603: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2604: </strong></font><br>
2605:
2606: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2607: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2608: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2609: our own Theo de Raadt.
2610: <p>
2611:
1.247 jufi 2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2613: <a
1.269 deraadt 2614: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2615: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2616: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2617: </strong></font><br>
2618:
2619: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2620: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2621: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2622: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2623: shut down.]
2624: <p>
2625:
1.247 jufi 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2627: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2628: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2629: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2630: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2634: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2635: <p>
1.247 jufi 2636: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2637:
1.161 louis 2638: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2639: <ul>
1.161 louis 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2642: <a
1.269 deraadt 2643: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2644: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2645: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2646: </strong></font><br>
2647:
2648: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2649: by John Wolley
2650: <p>
2651:
1.247 jufi 2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2653: <a
1.269 deraadt 2654: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2655: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2656: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2657: </strong></font><br>
2658:
2659: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2660: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2661: OpenBSD).
2662: <p>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2665: <a
1.247 jufi 2666: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2667: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2668: </strong></font><br>
2669:
2670: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2671: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2672: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2673: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2674: and hindsight.
2675: <p>
2676:
1.247 jufi 2677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2678: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2679: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2680: </strong></font><br>
2681:
2682: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2683: <p>
2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2686: <a
1.168 provos 2687: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2688: December 7, 2000
2689: </strong></font><br>
2690:
2691: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2692: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2693: us explain.
2694: <p>
2695:
1.247 jufi 2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2697: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2698: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2699: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2700: December 6, 2000
2701: </strong></font><br>
2702:
2703: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2704: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2705: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2709: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2710: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2711: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2712: </strong></font><br>
2713:
2714: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2715: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2716: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2717: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2718: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2719: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2720: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2721: <p>
2722:
2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2724: <a
1.226 horacio 2725: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2726: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2727: </strong></font><br>
2728:
2729: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2730: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2731: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2732: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2733: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2734: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2735: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2736: <p>
1.162 millert 2737:
1.247 jufi 2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2739: <a
1.161 louis 2740: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2741: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2742: </strong></font><br>
2743:
2744: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2745: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2746: <p>
2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2749: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2750: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2751: </strong></font><br>
2752:
2753: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2754: <p>
2755:
2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2758: <a
1.226 horacio 2759: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2760: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2761: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2762: </strong></font><br>
2763:
2764: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2765: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2766: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2767: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2768: <p>
1.247 jufi 2769: </ul>
1.169 louis 2770:
1.158 louis 2771: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2772: <ul>
1.147 louis 2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2775: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2776: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
2779: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2780: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2781: <p>
2782:
1.247 jufi 2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2784: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2785: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2786: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2787: </strong></font><br>
2788: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2789: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2790: <p>
2791:
1.247 jufi 2792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2793: <a
2794: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2795: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2796: </strong></font><br>
2797:
2798: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2799: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2800: <p>
2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2803: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2804: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2805: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2806:
1.213 horacio 2807: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2808: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2809: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2810: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2811: <p>
1.215 horacio 2812:
1.247 jufi 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2814: <a
2815: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2816: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2817: </strong></font><br>
2818:
2819: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2820: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2821: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2822: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2823: much of the attitude too).
2824: <p>
1.161 louis 2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2827: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2828: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2829: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2830:
1.157 louis 2831: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2832: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2833: <p>
1.247 jufi 2834: </ul>
1.157 louis 2835:
2836: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2837: <ul>
1.157 louis 2838:
1.247 jufi 2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2840: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2841: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2845: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2846: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2847: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2848: <p>
2849:
1.247 jufi 2850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2851: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2852: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2853: </strong></font><br>
2854:
2855: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2856: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2857: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2858: it because they love coding...
2859: <p>
2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2862: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2863: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2864: </strong></font><br>
2865:
2866: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2867: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2868: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2869: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2870: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2871: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2872: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2873: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2874: <p>
2875:
1.247 jufi 2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2877: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2878: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2879: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2880: </strong></font><br>
2881:
2882: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2883: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2884: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2885: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2886: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2887: the pizza.
2888: <p>
2889:
1.247 jufi 2890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2891: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2892: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2893: </strong></font><br>
2894:
2895: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2896: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2897: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2898: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2899: problems.
2900: <p>
2901:
1.247 jufi 2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2903: <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 2904: </strong></font><br>
2905:
1.222 miod 2906: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2907: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2908: - whether they like it or not.
2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2912: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2913: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2914: </strong></font><br>
2915:
2916: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2917: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2918: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2919: <p>
1.148 aaron 2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2922: <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 2923: </strong></font><br>
2924:
2925: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2926: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2927: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2928: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2929: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2930: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2931: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2932: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2933: <p>
2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2936: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2937: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2938: </strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2941: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 2942: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2943: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2944: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2945: <p>
1.247 jufi 2946: </ul>
1.147 louis 2947:
1.138 louis 2948: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2949: <ul>
1.138 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2952: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2953: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2954: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2955: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2956: </strong></font><br>
2957:
1.227 horacio 2958: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2959: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2960: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2961: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2962: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2963: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2964: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2965: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2966: <p>
2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2969: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2970: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2971: </strong></font><br>
2972:
2973: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2974: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2975: groups, and even Linux.
2976: <p>
2977:
1.247 jufi 2978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2979: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2980: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2981: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2982: </strong></font><br>
2983:
2984: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2985: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2986: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2987: library after installing the OS.
2988: <p>
2989:
1.247 jufi 2990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2991: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2992: Sys Admin, September 2000
2993: </strong></font><br>
2994:
2995: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2996: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2997: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2998: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2999: (<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>,
3000: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3001: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3002: <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 3003: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3004: out of the system.
3005: <p>
3006:
1.247 jufi 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3008: <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
3009: </strong></font><br>
3010:
3011: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3012: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3013: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3014: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3015: the IP filtering and address translation.
3016: <p>
1.301 jose 3017:
3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3019: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3020: </strong></font><br>
3021:
3022: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3023: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3024: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3025: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3026: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3027: <p>
1.247 jufi 3028: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3029:
1.131 louis 3030: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3031: <ul>
1.131 louis 3032:
1.247 jufi 3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3034: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3035: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3036: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3037: </strong></font><br>
3038:
3039: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3040: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3041: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3042: <p>
3043:
1.247 jufi 3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3045: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3046: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3047: </strong></font><br>
3048:
3049: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3050: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3051: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3052: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3053: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3054: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3055: note of"</i>.
3056: <p>
3057:
1.247 jufi 3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3059: <a
1.247 jufi 3060: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3061: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3062: </strong></font><br>
3063:
3064: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3065: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3066: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3067: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3068: <p>
3069:
1.247 jufi 3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3071: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3072: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3076: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3077: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3078: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3079: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3080: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3081: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3082: <p>
3083:
1.247 jufi 3084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3085: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3086: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3087: 2000
3088: </strong></font><br>
3089:
3090: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3091: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3092: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3093: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3094: against current industry practices.
3095: <p>
3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3098: <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
3099: </strong></font><br>
3100:
3101: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3102: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3103: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3104: <p>
3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3107: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3108: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3109: </strong></font><br>
3110:
3111: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3112: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3113: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3114: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3115: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3116: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3117: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3118: <p>
3119:
1.247 jufi 3120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3121: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3122: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3123: </strong></font><br>
3124:
3125: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3126: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3127: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3128: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3129: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3130: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3131: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3132: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3133: <p>
1.247 jufi 3134: </ul>
1.131 louis 3135:
1.118 louis 3136: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3137: <ul>
1.118 louis 3138:
1.247 jufi 3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3140: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3141: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3142: </strong></font><br>
3143:
3144: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3145: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3146: about time. The article mentions that
3147: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3148: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3149: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3150: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3151: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3152: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3153: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3154: <p>
3155:
1.247 jufi 3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3157: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3158: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3162: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3163: of OpenSSH.
3164: <p>
3165:
1.247 jufi 3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3167: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3168: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3169: </strong></font><br>
3170:
3171: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3172: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3173: bridging.
3174: <p>
3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3177: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3178: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3179: </strong></font><br>
3180:
1.121 deraadt 3181: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3182: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3183: <p>
3184:
1.247 jufi 3185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3186: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3187: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3188: </strong></font><br>
3189:
3190: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3191: <p>
3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3194: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3195: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3196: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3197: </strong></font><br>
3198:
1.120 deraadt 3199: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3200: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3201: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3202: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3203: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3204: <p>
3205:
1.247 jufi 3206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3207: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3208: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3209: </strong></font><br>
3210:
1.222 miod 3211: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3212: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3213: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3214: protocols and their quirks.
3215: <p>
3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3218: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3219: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3220: </strong></font><br>
3221:
3222: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3223: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3224: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3225: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3226: <p>
3227:
1.247 jufi 3228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3229: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3230: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3231: </strong></font><br>
3232:
3233: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3234: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3235: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3236: <p>
3237:
1.247 jufi 3238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3239: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3240: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3241: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3242: </strong></font><br>
3243:
3244: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3245: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3246: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3247: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3248: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3249: <p>
1.247 jufi 3250: </ul>
1.118 louis 3251:
1.104 louis 3252: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3253: <ul>
1.104 louis 3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3256: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3257: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3258: </strong></font><br>
3259:
3260: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3261: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3262: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3263: be a bit dry.
3264: <p>
3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3267: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3268: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3269: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3270: </strong></font><br>
3271: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3272: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3273: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3274: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3275: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3276: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3277: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3278: <p>
3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3281: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3282: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3283: 2000
1.128 louis 3284: </strong></font><br>
3285:
3286: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3287: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3288: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3289: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3290: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3291: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3292: <p>
3293:
1.247 jufi 3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3295: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3296: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3297: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3298:
3299: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3300: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3301: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3302: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3303: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3304: <p>
1.110 louis 3305:
1.247 jufi 3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3307: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3308: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3309: </strong></font><br>
3310:
3311: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3312: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3313: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3314: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3315: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3316: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3317: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3318: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3319: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3320: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3321: <p>
3322:
1.247 jufi 3323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3324: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3325: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3326:
3327: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3328: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3329: <p>
1.108 louis 3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3332: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3333: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3334: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3335:
3336: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3337: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3338: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3339: <p>
1.106 louis 3340:
1.247 jufi 3341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3342: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3343: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3344: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3345:
3346: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3347: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3348: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3349: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3350: <p>
1.107 louis 3351:
1.247 jufi 3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3353: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3354: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3355: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3356:
3357: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3358: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3359: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3360: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3361: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3362: <p>
1.105 louis 3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3365: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3366: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3367: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3368:
1.113 naddy 3369: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3370: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3371: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3372: <p>
1.104 louis 3373:
1.247 jufi 3374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3375: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3376: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3377: </strong></font><br>
3378:
3379: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3380: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3381: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3382: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3383: <p>
1.301 jose 3384:
3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3386: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3387: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3388: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3389:
3390: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3391: hardware-supported cryptography.
3392: <p>
1.247 jufi 3393: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3394:
1.85 louis 3395: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3396: <ul>
1.85 louis 3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3399: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3400: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3401: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3402:
3403: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3404: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3405: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3406: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3407: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3408: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3409: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3410: <p>
1.99 louis 3411:
1.247 jufi 3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3413: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3414: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3415: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3416:
3417: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3418: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3419: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3420: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3421: <p>
1.100 louis 3422:
1.247 jufi 3423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3424: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3425: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3426: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3427:
3428: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3429: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3430: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3431: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3432: <p>
1.95 louis 3433:
1.247 jufi 3434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3435: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3436: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3437: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3438:
3439: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3440: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3441: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3442: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3443: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3444: <p>
1.92 louis 3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3447: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3448: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3449: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3450:
3451: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3452: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3453: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3454: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3455: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3456: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3457: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3458: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3459: <p>
1.91 louis 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3462: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3463: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3464: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3465:
3466: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3467: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3468: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3469: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3470: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3471: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3472: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3473: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3474: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3475: <p>
1.90 louis 3476:
1.247 jufi 3477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3478: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3479: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3480: </strong></font><br>
3481: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3482: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3483: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3484: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3485: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3486: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3487: <p>
3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3490: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3491: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3492: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3493:
1.113 naddy 3494: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3495: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3496: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3497: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3498: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3499: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3500: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3501: <p>
1.87 louis 3502:
1.247 jufi 3503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3504: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3505: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3506: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3507:
3508: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3509: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3510: <p>
1.85 louis 3511:
1.247 jufi 3512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3513: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3514: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3515: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3516:
3517: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3518: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3519: <p>
3520:
3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3522: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3523: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3524: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3525:
3526: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3527: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3528: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3529: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3530: <p>
1.89 louis 3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3533: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3534: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3535: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3536:
3537: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3538: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3539: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3540: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3541: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3542: </ul>
1.85 louis 3543:
1.78 deraadt 3544: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3545: <ul>
1.74 louis 3546:
1.247 jufi 3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3548: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3549: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3550: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3551: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3552:
3553: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3554: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3555: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3556: <p>
1.83 louis 3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3559: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3560: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3561: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3562:
3563: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3564: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3565: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3566: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3567: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3568: <p>
1.93 louis 3569:
1.247 jufi 3570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3571: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3572: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3573: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3574: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3575:
1.83 louis 3576: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3577: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3578: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3579: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3580: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3581: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3582: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3583: <p>
1.82 aaron 3584:
1.247 jufi 3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3586: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3587: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3588: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3589:
1.83 louis 3590: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3591: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3592: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3593: <p>
1.80 louis 3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3596: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3597: Bad Press</a>,
3598: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3599: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3600:
3601: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3602: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3603: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3604: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3605: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3606: <p>
1.247 jufi 3607: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3608:
3609: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3610: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3611:
1.247 jufi 3612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3613: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3614: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3615: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3616: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3617:
3618: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3619: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3620: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3621: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3622: <p>
1.74 louis 3623:
1.247 jufi 3624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3625: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3626: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3627: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3628:
1.219 horacio 3629: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3630: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3631: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3632: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3633: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3634: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3635: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3636: <p>
1.88 louis 3637:
1.247 jufi 3638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3639: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3640: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3641: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3642:
3643: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3644: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3645: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3646: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3647: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3648: <p>
1.81 louis 3649:
1.247 jufi 3650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3651: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3652: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3653: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3654:
3655: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3656: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3657: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3658: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3659: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3660: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3661: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3662: <p>
1.90 louis 3663:
1.247 jufi 3664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3665: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3666: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3667: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3668:
3669: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3670: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3671: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3672: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3673: <p>
1.247 jufi 3674: </ul>
1.71 louis 3675:
1.69 deraadt 3676: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3677: <ul>
1.70 louis 3678:
1.247 jufi 3679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3680: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3681: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3682: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3683:
3684: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3685: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3686: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3687: <p>
1.70 louis 3688:
1.247 jufi 3689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3690: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3691: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3692: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3693:
3694: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3695: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3696: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3697: <p>
1.68 louis 3698:
1.247 jufi 3699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3700: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3701: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3702: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3703: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3704:
1.111 jufi 3705: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3706: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3707: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3708: "secure by default" installation.
3709: <p>
1.64 louis 3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3712: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3713: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3714: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3715:
1.113 naddy 3716: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3717: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3718: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3719: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3720: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3721: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3722: <p>
1.66 louis 3723:
1.247 jufi 3724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3725: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3726: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3727: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3728:
3729: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3730: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3731: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3732: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3733: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3734: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3735: <p>
1.83 louis 3736:
1.247 jufi 3737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3738: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3739: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3740: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3741:
3742: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3743: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3744: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3745: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3746: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3747: <p>
1.64 louis 3748:
1.247 jufi 3749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3750: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3751: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3752: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3753:
3754: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3755: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3756: <p>
1.301 jose 3757:
3758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3759: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3760: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3761: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3762: </strong></font><br>
3763:
3764: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3765: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3766: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3767: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3768: Giving way to
3769: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3770: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3771: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3772: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3773: <p>
1.247 jufi 3774: </ul>
1.65 louis 3775:
1.69 deraadt 3776: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3777: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3778:
1.247 jufi 3779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3780: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3781: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3782: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3783:
3784: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3785: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3786: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3787: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3788: <p>
1.88 louis 3789:
1.247 jufi 3790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3791: <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 3792: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3793:
3794: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3795: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3796: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3797: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3798: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3799: <p>
1.60 louis 3800:
1.247 jufi 3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3802: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3803: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3804: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3805: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3806:
3807: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3808: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3809: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3810: <p>
1.58 louis 3811:
1.247 jufi 3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3813: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3814: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3815:
3816: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3817: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3818: <p>
1.53 louis 3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3821: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3822: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3823: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3824:
3825: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3826: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3827: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3828: <p>
1.99 louis 3829:
1.247 jufi 3830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3831: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3832: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3833:
3834: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3835: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3836: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3837: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3838: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3839:
1.247 jufi 3840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3841: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3842: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3843: </strong></font><br>
3844:
3845: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3846: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3847: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3848: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3849: <p>
3850:
1.247 jufi 3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3852: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3853: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3854: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3855:
3856: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3857: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3858: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3861: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3862: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3863:
3864: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3865: in
1.247 jufi 3866: <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 3867: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3868: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3869: <p>
1.53 louis 3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3872: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3873: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3874: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3875: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3876:
1.58 louis 3877: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3878: <p>
1.301 jose 3879:
3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3881: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3882: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3883: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3884: Informacyjny, January 2000
3885: </strong></font><br>
3886:
3887: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3888: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3889: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3890: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3891: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3892: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3893: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3894: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3895: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3896: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3897: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3898: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3899: <p>
3900:
3901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3902: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3903: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3904: </strong></font><br>
3905:
3906: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3907: <p>
3908: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3909:
1.69 deraadt 3910: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3911: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3914: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3915: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3916: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3917: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3918:
1.58 louis 3919: Kurt Seifried
3920: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3921: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3922: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3923: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3924:
1.247 jufi 3925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3926: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3927: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3928: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3929:
3930: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3931: <p>
1.96 louis 3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3934: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3935: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3936: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3940: <p>
3941:
3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3943: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3944: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3945: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3946:
3947: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3948: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 3949: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 3950: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3951: <p>
1.247 jufi 3952: </ul>
1.86 louis 3953:
1.69 deraadt 3954: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3955: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3958: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3959: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3960: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3961:
3962: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3963: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3964: <p>
1.61 louis 3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3967: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3968: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3969: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3970: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3971:
3972: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3973: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3974: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3975: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3976: right -- or at least strives to".
3977: <p>
1.48 louis 3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3980: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3981: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3982: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3983: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3984: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3985: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3986: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3987: <p>
1.61 louis 3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <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 3990: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3991: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3992:
3993: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3994: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3995: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3996: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3997: <p>
1.46 louis 3998:
1.247 jufi 3999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4000: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4001: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4002: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4003:
4004: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4005: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4006: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4009: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4010: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4011: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4012:
4013: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4014: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4015: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4016: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4017: <p>
1.247 jufi 4018: </ul>
1.70 louis 4019:
1.69 deraadt 4020: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4021: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4022:
1.247 jufi 4023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4024: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4025: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4026: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4027: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4028:
4029: Kurt Seifried
4030: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4031: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4032: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4033: <p>
1.44 philen 4034:
1.247 jufi 4035: <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 4036: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4037: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4038:
4039: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4040: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4041:
1.247 jufi 4042: <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 4043: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4044: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4045:
4046: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4047: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4048:
1.247 jufi 4049: <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 4050: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4051: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4052:
4053: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4054: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4055: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4056: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4057: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4058:
1.247 jufi 4059: <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 4060: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4061: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4062:
1.36 louis 4063: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4064: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4065:
1.247 jufi 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4067: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4068: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4069: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4070:
4071: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4072: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4073: </ul>
1.38 louis 4074:
1.69 deraadt 4075: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4076: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4077:
1.247 jufi 4078: <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 4079: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4080: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4081:
4082: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4083: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4084: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4085:
1.113 naddy 4086: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4087: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4088: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4089: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4090:
4091: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4092: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4093: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4094: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4095: <blockquote>
4096: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4097: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4098: <br>
4099: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4100: </code>
4101: </blockquote>
4102: <p>
4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4105: <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 4106: <p>
4107:
4108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4109: <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 4110: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4111:
4112: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4113: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4114: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4115: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4116:
1.247 jufi 4117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4118: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4119: Sept. 28, 1999
4120: </strong></font><br>
4121:
4122: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4123: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4124: translating and reprinting articles from
4125: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4126: <p>
4127:
4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4129: <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 4130: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4131:
4132: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4133: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4134: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4135: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4136: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4137: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4138: <p>
1.19 louis 4139:
1.113 naddy 4140: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4141: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4142: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4143:
4144: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4145: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4146: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4147: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4148: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4149: <p>
1.16 louis 4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4152: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4153: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4154: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4155:
1.57 louis 4156: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4157: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4158: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4159: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4160:
1.247 jufi 4161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4162: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4163: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4164: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4165:
1.113 naddy 4166: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4167:
1.247 jufi 4168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4169: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4170: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4171: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4172:
1.23 louis 4173: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4174: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4175: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4176: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4177: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4178: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4179:
1.247 jufi 4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4181: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4182: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4183: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4184:
1.199 pvalchev 4185: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4186: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4187: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4188: installation.
1.113 naddy 4189: <p>
1.47 louis 4190:
1.247 jufi 4191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4192: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4193: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4194: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4195:
1.301 jose 4196: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4197: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4198: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4199: </ul>
1.57 louis 4200:
1.69 deraadt 4201: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4202: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4203:
1.247 jufi 4204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4205: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4206: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4207: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4208:
4209: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4210: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4211: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4212: <p>
1.12 louis 4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4215: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4216: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4217: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4218:
4219: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4220: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4221: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4222: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4223: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4224: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4225: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4226: <p>
1.247 jufi 4227: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4228:
1.69 deraadt 4229: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4230: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4233: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4234: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4235:
4236: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4237: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4238: available."
1.113 naddy 4239: <p>
1.301 jose 4240:
4241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4242: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4243: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4244: </strong></font><br>
4245:
4246: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4247: <p>
1.247 jufi 4248: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4249:
1.69 deraadt 4250: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4251: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4252:
1.247 jufi 4253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4254: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4255: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4256:
4257: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4258: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4259: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4260: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4261: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4262: <p>
1.33 louis 4263:
1.247 jufi 4264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4265: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4266: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4267: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4268:
1.113 naddy 4269: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4270: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4271: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4272: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4273: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4274: <p>
1.247 jufi 4275: </ul>
1.57 louis 4276:
1.69 deraadt 4277: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4278: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4279:
1.247 jufi 4280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4281: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4282: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4283: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4284:
4285: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4286: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4287: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4290: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4291: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4292: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4293: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4294:
4295: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4296: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4299: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4300:
1.113 naddy 4301: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4302:
1.247 jufi 4303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4304: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4305: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4306: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4307:
4308: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4309: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4310: </ul>
1.23 louis 4311:
1.69 deraadt 4312: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4313: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4314:
1.247 jufi 4315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4316: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4317: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4318:
4319: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4320: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4321: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4324: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4325: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4326: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4327:
4328: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4329: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4330: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4331: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4332: </ul>
1.57 louis 4333:
1.69 deraadt 4334: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4335: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4336:
1.247 jufi 4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4338: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4339: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4340: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4341:
4342: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4343: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4344: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4345: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4346: <p>
1.15 louis 4347:
1.247 jufi 4348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4349: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4350: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4351: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4352:
4353: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4354: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4355: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4356: columns."
1.113 naddy 4357: <p>
1.247 jufi 4358: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4359:
1.69 deraadt 4360: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4361: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4362:
1.247 jufi 4363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4364: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4365: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4366: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4367:
4368: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4369: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4370:
1.113 naddy 4371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4372: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4373: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4374:
4375: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4376: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4377: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4378: </ul>
1.57 louis 4379:
1.69 deraadt 4380: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4381: <ul>
1.301 jose 4382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4383: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4384: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4385: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4386:
4387: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4388: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4389: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4390: <p>
4391:
4392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4393: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4394: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4395: Nov 13, 1998 and
4396: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4397: Datateknik</a>,
4398: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4399:
1.380 saad 4400: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4401: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4402: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4403: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4404: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4405:
1.113 naddy 4406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4407: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4408: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4409: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4410:
1.222 miod 4411: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4412: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4413: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4414: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4415: <p>
1.247 jufi 4416: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4417:
1.69 deraadt 4418: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4419: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4420:
1.247 jufi 4421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4422: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4423: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4424:
1.69 deraadt 4425: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4426: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4427: <p>
1.247 jufi 4428: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4429:
1.69 deraadt 4430: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4431: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4434: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4435: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4436: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4437:
1.383 jcs 4438: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4439: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4440: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4441:
1.247 jufi 4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4443: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4444: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4445: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4446: <p>
1.247 jufi 4447: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4448:
1.69 deraadt 4449: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4450: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4451:
1.247 jufi 4452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4453: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4454: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4455: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4456: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4457: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4458:
4459: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4460: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4461: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4462: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4463: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4464: <p>
1.247 jufi 4465: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4466:
4467: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4468: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4469:
1.247 jufi 4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4471: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4472: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4473:
1.69 deraadt 4474: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4475: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4476: <p>
1.112 naddy 4477:
1.247 jufi 4478: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4479: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4480:
1.292 camield 4481: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4482: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4483: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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