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1.426 ! ian 19: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
! 24: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
! 25: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 26: This article talks about our systrace
! 27: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
! 28: mechanism: what it is and why and
! 29: how to use it, with examples.
! 30: Another excerpt from the book
! 31: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
! 32: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
! 33: <p>
! 34:
! 35: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 36: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
! 37: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
! 38: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 39: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
! 40: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
! 41: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
! 42: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
! 43: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
! 44: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
! 45: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
! 46: This article is a sample chapter from
! 47: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
! 48: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
! 49: <p>
! 50:
! 51: </ul>
! 52:
1.424 ian 53: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
54: <ul>
55:
56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 57: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
58: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
59: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
60: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
61: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
62: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
63: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
64: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
65: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
66: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
67: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
68: <p>
69: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
70: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
71: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
72: <p>
73:
74: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 75: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
76: Closed Source Hardware</a>
77: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
78: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
79: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
80: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
81: operating systems.
82: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
83: OpenBSD on his firewall.
84: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
85: systems, he writes:
86: <blockquote>
87: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
88: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
89: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
90: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
91: to the operating system...
92: <br/>
93: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
94: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
95: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
96: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
97: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
98: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
99: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
100: in a closed source operating system).
101: <br/>
102: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
103: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
104: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
105: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
106: </blockquote>
107: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
108: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
109: their hardware and software operates.
110: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
111: reverse-engineering the
112: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
113: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
114: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
115: <p>
116: </ul>
117:
1.417 pvalchev 118: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
119: <ul>
1.421 ian 120:
1.417 pvalchev 121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 122: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
123: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
124: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
125: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
126: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
127: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
128: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
129: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
130: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
131: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
132: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 133: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 134: <p>
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 136: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
137: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
138: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
139: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
140: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
141: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
142: it claims to do".
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 146: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
147: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
148: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
149: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
150: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 151: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 152: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
153: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
154: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
155: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
156: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
157: (yes, this is a hint).
158: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
159: picked up on the
160: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
161: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
162: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
163: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
164: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 168: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
169: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
170: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
171: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
172: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
173: questions about the significance and rationale behind
174: the current efforts.
175: <p>
176: </ul>
177:
1.407 henning 178: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
179: <ul>
180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 181: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
182: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
183: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
184: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
185: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
186: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
187: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
188: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 192: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
193: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
194: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
195: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
196: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
197: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
198: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
199: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
200: of the important changes in 3.6.
201: </p>
202:
203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 204: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
205: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
206: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
207: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
208: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
209: overflow attacks... because
210: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
211: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
212: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
213: and propolice.
214: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
215: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
216: and that's when the science falls apart."
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 220: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
221: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
222: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
223: Starts with the question:
224: <blockquote>
225: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
226: <br/>
227: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
228: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
229: <br/>
230: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
231: Should we believe them?"
232: </blockquote>
233: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
234: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
235: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
236: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
237: for your mail, web and other online activities.
238: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
239: <p>
240:
241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 242: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
243: Simple Simon</a>,
244: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
245: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
246: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
247: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
248: routing/firewall, and more.
249: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
250: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
251: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
252: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
253: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
254: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
255: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
256: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
257: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
258: </blockquote>
259: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
260: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 264: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
265: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 266: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 267: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 268: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
269: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
270: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 271: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 272: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
273: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
274: in spite of it
275: (registration required, but worth it).
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
279: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
280: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
281: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
282: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
283: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
284: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
285: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 286: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 287: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
288: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
289: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
290: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 294: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
295: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
296: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
297: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
298: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
299: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
300: <blockquote>
301: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
302: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
303: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
304: a lot of analysis.
305: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
306: </blockquote>
307: <p>
308: </ul>
309:
1.400 marco 310: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
311: <ul>
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 313: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
314: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
315: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
316: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
317: UNIX-like systems.
318: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
319: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
320: <p>
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 322: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
323: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 324: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
325: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
326: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
327: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
328: At one point, the article states:
329: <blockquote>
330: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
331: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
332: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
333: </blockquote>
334: And then quotes Theo as saying:
335: <blockquote>
336: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
337: fewer are reading or auditing code."
338: </blockquote>
339: <p>
340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
341: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
342: marks its fifth birthday</a>
343: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
344: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
345: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
346: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
347: required).
348: <p>
349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 350: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
351: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
352: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
353: </strong></font><br>
354: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
355: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
356: <p>
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 358: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
359: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 360: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 361: </strong></font><br>
362: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
363: <p>
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 365: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
366: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 367: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 368: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 369: 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 370: <p>
371: </ul>
372:
1.396 henning 373: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
374: <ul>
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 376: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
377: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
378: Unix Review, July, 2004
379: </strong></font><br>
380: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
381: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
382: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
383: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
384: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
385: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
386: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
387: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
388: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
389: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
390: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
391: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
392: and even spelling/wording errors.
393: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
394: <p>
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 396: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 397: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
398: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
399: </strong></font><br>
400: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
401: <p>
402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 403: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 404: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
405: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
406: </strong></font><br>
407: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
408: <p>
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 410: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
411: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
412: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
413: </strong></font><br>
414: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
415: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
416: <p>
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 418: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
419: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
420: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
421: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
422: <p>
423: </ul>
424:
1.405 jolan 425: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
426: <ul>
427: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
428: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
429: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
430: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
431: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
432: details on how funds are dispersed.
433: <p>
434: </ul>
435:
1.393 david 436: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
437: <ul>
438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 439: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
440: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
441: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
442: </strong></font><br>
443: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
444: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
445: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
446: on inserting large number of SQL records.
447: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
448: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
449: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 453: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
454: Secure by Default</a>,
455: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
456: </strong></font><br>
457: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
458: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
463: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
464: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
465: </strong></font><br>
466: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
467: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
468: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
469: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
470: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
471: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
475: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
476: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
477: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
478: </strong></font><br>
479: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
480: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
481: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
485: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
486: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
487: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
488: </strong></font><br>
489: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
490: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
491: <p>
492: </ul>
493:
1.388 mcbride 494: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
495: <ul>
1.394 jolan 496:
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
498: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
499: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
500: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
501: </strong></font><br>
502: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
503: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
504: available for sparc64.
505: <p>
506:
1.390 beck 507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 508: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
509: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
510: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
511: </strong></font><br>
512: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
513: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
514: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
515: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 519: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
520: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 521: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 522: </strong></font><br>
523: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
524: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
525: it does: CARP provides sharing
526: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
527: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
528: detail to get you started using it.
529: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
530: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
531: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
532: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
533: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
534: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
535: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 536: <p>
1.391 ian 537:
538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 539: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 540: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
541: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 542: </strong></font><br>
543: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 544: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 545: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 546: <p>
1.388 mcbride 547:
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
549: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
550: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 551: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 552: </strong></font><br>
553: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
554: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
555: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
556: unencumbered by patents.
557: <p>
558: </ul>
559:
1.378 henning 560: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
561: <ul>
1.384 jose 562:
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 564: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
565: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
566: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
567: </strong></font><br>
568: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
569: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
570: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
571: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
572: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
573: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
574: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
575: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
576: in the page tables."
577: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
578: <p>
579:
580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 581: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
582: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
583: </strong></font><br>
584: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
585: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
586: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
587: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 588: <p>
1.384 jose 589:
1.378 henning 590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 591: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
592: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 593: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
594: </strong></font><br>
595: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
596: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
597: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
598: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
599: (quote:
600: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
601: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 602: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 603: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
604: the other developers for their work on the system.
605: <p>
606:
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 608: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
609: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
610: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 611: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 612: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
613: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
614: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
615: too.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 619: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
620: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 621: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 622: OpenBSD source code using
623: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
624: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
625: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
626: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
627: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
628: <p>
629: </ul>
630:
1.374 jose 631: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
632: <ul>
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 634: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 635: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
636: </strong></font><br>
637: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
638: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
639: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
640: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
641: it."
642: <p>
643:
644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 645: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
646: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
647: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
648: </strong></font><br/>
649: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
650: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
651: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
652: <p>
653: </ul>
654:
1.369 ian 655: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
656: <ul>
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 658: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
659: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
660: </strong></font><br/>
661: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
662: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
663: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
664: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
665: <p>
666:
667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 668: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
669: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
670: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
671: </strong></font><br/>
672: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
673: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
674: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
675: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
676: form factor.
677: <p>
678:
679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
680: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
681: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
682: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
683: Features</a>,
684: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
685: </strong></font><br/>
686: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
687: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
688: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
689: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
690: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
691: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
692: <p>
693: This article can also be found online at:
694: <ul>
695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 696: <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 697: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
698: </strong></font>
699: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
700: </ul>
701: <p>
1.392 david 702:
1.371 jose 703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 704: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
705: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 706: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
707: </strong></font><br/>
708: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
709: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
710: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 711: <p>
1.371 jose 712:
713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 714: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 715: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 716: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 717: </strong></font><br/>
718: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
719: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
720: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
721: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
722: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
723: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
724: and its history with OpenBSD.
725: </ul>
726:
1.368 henning 727: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
728: <ul>
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 730: [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 731: </strong></font><br>
732: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
733: </ul>
734:
1.364 jose 735: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
736: <ul>
737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 738: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
739: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
740: UNIX Review,
741: July, 2003.
742: </strong></font><br>
743: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
744: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
745: who want more information.
746: <p>
747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 749: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
750: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
751: Government Computer News,
752: July 22, 2003.
753: </strong></font><br>
754: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
755: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
756: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
757: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
761: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
762: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
763: SANS Institute,
764: July 22, 2003.
765: </strong></font><br>
766: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 767: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 768: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
769: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
770: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
771: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
772: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
773: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
774: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
775: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
776: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 780: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
781: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
782: OnLamp.com,
783: July 17, 2003.
784: </strong></font><br>
785: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
786: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
787: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
788: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
789: have been working on.
790:
791: </ul>
792:
1.356 jose 793: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 794: <ul>
795:
796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 797: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
798: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
799: UNIX Review,
800: June, 2003.
801: </strong></font><br>
802: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
803: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
804: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
805: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 809: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
810: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
811: eWeek,
812: June 23, 2003.
813: </strong></font><br>
814: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
815: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
816: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
817: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
818: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
819: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 823: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
824: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
825: Software Development Online,
826: June, 2003.
827: </strong></font><br>
828: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
829: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
830: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
831: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
832: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
833: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
834: current activities.
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 838: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
839: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 840: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
841: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
842: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
843: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 844: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 845: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
846: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
847: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 848: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 849: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
850: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 851: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 852: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
853: decisions.
854: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
855: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 856: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 857: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 858: <p>
859:
860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 861: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
862: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
863: Page 58, eWeek,
864: June 2, 2003.
865: </strong></font><br>
866: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
867: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
868: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
869: been addressed in -current.
870: <p>
871:
1.356 jose 872: </ul>
873:
874: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
875: <ul>
876:
1.355 jose 877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 878: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
879: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
880: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
881: </strong></font><br>
882: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
883: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
884: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
885: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
886: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
887: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
888: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 892: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
893: Beyond Linux</a>,
894: InfoWorld,
895: May 23, 2003.
896: </strong></font><br>
897: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
898: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
899: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
900: compared to the GPL.
901: <p>
902:
903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 904: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
905: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
906: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 907: May 17, 2003.
908: </strong></font><br>
909: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
910: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
911: the business section and half of another page inside
912: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
913: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
914: in talking about the project's history and goals.
915: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
916: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
917: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
918: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 919: <br>
920: This article can also be found online at:
921: <ul>
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
923: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
924: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
925: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
926: May 17, 2003
927: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 928: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
930: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
931: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
932: Montreal Gazette,
933: May 21, 2003
934: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 935: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 936: <p>
1.346 ian 937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 939: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 940: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 941: May 7, 2003.
942: </strong></font><br>
943: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
944: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
945: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
946: <p>
947:
948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 949: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
950: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
951: OsOpinion,
952: May 6, 2003.
953: </strong></font><br>
954: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
955: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
956: <br>
957: This article can also be found online at:
958: <ul>
959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
960: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
961: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
962: NewsFactor Network.
963: </strong></font>
964: </ul>
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 968: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 969: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
970: ITBusiness,
971: May 2, 2003.
972: </strong></font><br>
973: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
974: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
975: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
976: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
977: <p>
978:
979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 980: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
981: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
982: InfoWorld,
983: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 984: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 985: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
986: <br>
987: This article can also be found online at:
988: <ul>
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
990: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
991: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
992: IDG Singapore.
993: </strong></font>
994: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 995: <p>
996:
1.339 jose 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
998: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
999: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1000: ZDNet,
1001: May 1, 2003.
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1004: someone using parts from previous articles.
1005: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1006: This article can also be found online at:
1007: <ul>
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1010: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1011: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1012: </strong></font>
1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1014: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1015: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1016: CNET News.com.
1017: </strong></font>
1018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1019: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1020: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1021: ZDNet UK.
1022: </strong></font>
1023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1024: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1025: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1026: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1027: </strong></font>
1028: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1029: <p>
1.339 jose 1030:
1.341 deraadt 1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1032: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1033: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1034: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1035: May 1, 2003.
1036: </strong></font><br>
1037: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1038: that have been added
1039: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1040: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1041: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1042: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1043: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1044: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1045: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1046: <p>
1047:
1048: </ul>
1049:
1.253 ian 1050: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1051: <ul>
1.255 ian 1052:
1.260 ian 1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1054: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1055: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1056: TechRepublic,
1057: April 28, 2003.
1058: </strong></font><br>
1059: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1060: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1061: work.<br>
1062: Can also be found online at:
1063: <ul>
1064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1065: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1066: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1067: ZDNet UK.
1068: </strong></font>
1069: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1070: <p>
1071:
1072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1073: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1074: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1075: IDG,
1076: April 24, 2003.
1077: </strong></font><br>
1078: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1079: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1080: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1081: Can also be found online at:
1082: <ul>
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1084: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1085: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1086: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1087: </strong></font>
1088: </ul>
1089: <p>
1090:
1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1092: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1093: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1094: Slate,
1095: April 24, 2003.
1096: </strong></font><br>
1097: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1098: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1099: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1100: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1101: <p>
1102:
1103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1104: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1105: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1106: April 24, 2003.
1107: </strong></font><br>
1108: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1109: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1110: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1111: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1112: <p>
1113:
1114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1115: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1116: April 24, 2003.
1117: </strong></font><br>
1118: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1119: the free software community".
1120: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1121: other articles.
1122: <p>
1123:
1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1125: <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 1126: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1127: </strong></font><br>
1128: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1129: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1130: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1131: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1132: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1133: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1134: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1135: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1136: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1137: <br/>
1138: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1139: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1140: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1141: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1142: <br>
1143: Can also be found online at:
1144: <ul>
1145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1146: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1147: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1148: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1149: </strong></font>
1150: </ul>
1.324 ian 1151: <p>
1152:
1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1154: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1155: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1156: </strong></font><br>
1157: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1158: article above.
1159: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1160: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1161: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1162: <br>
1163: Can also be found online at:
1164: <ul>
1165: <li>
1166: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1167: </strong></font>
1168: </ul>
1.324 ian 1169: <p>
1170:
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1172: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1173: </strong></font><br>
1174: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1175: <p>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1178: <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.
1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1181: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1182: <p>
1183:
1184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1185: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1186: April 23, 2003.
1187: </strong></font><br>
1188: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1189: <p>
1190:
1191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1192: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1193: April 22, 2003.
1194: </strong></font><br>
1195: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1196: <p>
1197:
1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1199: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1200: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1201: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1202: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1203: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1204: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1205: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1206: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1207: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1208: Can also be found online at:
1209: <ul>
1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1211: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1212: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1213: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1214: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1216: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1217: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1218: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1219: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1220: </ul>
1221: <p>
1222:
1223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1224: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1225: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1226: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1227: </strong></font><br>
1228: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1229: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1230: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1231: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1232: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1233: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1234: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1235: <p>
1236:
1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1238: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1239: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1240: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1241: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1242: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1243: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1244: at UPenn and DARPA.
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1248: [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,
1249: France
1.315 deraadt 1250: April 18, 2003.
1251: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1252: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1253: <p>
1254:
1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1256: [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 1257: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1258: </strong></font><br>
1259: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1260: <p>
1261:
1262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1263: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1264: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1265: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1267: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1268: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1269: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1270: <p>
1271:
1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1273: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1274: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1275: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1276: </strong></font><br>
1277: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1278: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1279: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1280: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1281: <p>
1282:
1283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1284: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1285: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1286: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1287: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1288: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1289: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1290: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1291: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1292: Can also be found online at:
1293: <ul>
1294: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1295: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1296: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1297: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1298: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1299: <p>
1300:
1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1302: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1303: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1304: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1305: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1306: </strong></font><br>
1307: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1308: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1309: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1310: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1311: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1312:
1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1314: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1315: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1316: New York Times.
1317: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1318:
1.273 deraadt 1319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1320: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1321: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1322: ABC News.
1323: </strong></font>
1324:
1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1326: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1327: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1328: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1329: </strong></font>
1330:
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1332: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1333: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1334: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1335: </strong></font>
1336:
1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1338: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1339: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1340: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1341: </strong></font>
1342:
1343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1344: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1345: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1346: Times Daily, AL.
1347: </strong></font>
1348:
1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1350: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1351: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1352: Boston.com, MA.
1353: </strong></font>
1354:
1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1356: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1357: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1358: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1359: </strong></font>
1360:
1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1362: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1363: [Article was pulled]</a>
1364: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1365: </strong></font>
1366:
1367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1368: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1369: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1370: Infoshop News.
1371: </strong></font>
1372:
1373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1374: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1375: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1376: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1377: </strong></font>
1378:
1379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1380: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1381: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1382: Raleigh News, NC.
1383: </strong></font>
1384:
1385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1386: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1387: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1388: Napa News, CA.
1389: </strong></font>
1390:
1391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1392: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1393: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1394: NEPA News, PA.
1395: </strong></font>
1396:
1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1398: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1399: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1400: Wired News.
1401: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1402: <br>
1403: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1404: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1405: [JAPANESE]
1406: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1407: Wired News Japan</a>
1408: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1409:
1.271 deraadt 1410: </ul>
1411: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1412: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1413: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1414: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1415: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1416: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1417: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1418: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1419: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1420: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1421: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1422: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1423: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1424: <p>
1425: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1426:
1427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1428: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1429: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1430: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1431: </strong></font>
1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1434: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1435: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1436: Miami Herald, FL.
1437: </strong></font>
1438:
1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1440: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1441: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1442: </strong></font>
1443:
1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1445: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1446: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1447: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1448: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1449:
1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1451: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1452: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1453: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1454: ABC News.
1455: </strong></font>
1456:
1.276 deraadt 1457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1458: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1459: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1460: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1461: </strong></font>
1462:
1.286 dhartmei 1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1464: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1465: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1466: Wilmington Star, NC.
1467: </strong></font>
1468:
1.300 jose 1469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1470: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1471: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1472: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1473: </strong></font>
1474:
1.309 jose 1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1476: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1477: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1478: Globe Technology.
1479: </strong></font>
1480:
1.263 deraadt 1481: </ul>
1.262 beck 1482: <p>
1483:
1484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1485: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1486: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1487: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1488: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1489: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1490: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1491: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1492: <p>
1493:
1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1495: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1496: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1497: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1498: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1499: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1500: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1501: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1502: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1503: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1504: and simply restates other press reports.
1505: <p>
1506:
1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1508: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1509: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1510: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1511: </strong></font><br>
1512: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1513: <p>
1514:
1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1516: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1517: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1518: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1519: </strong></font><br>
1520: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1521: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1522: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1523: <p>
1524:
1525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1526: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1527: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1528: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1529: April 17, 2003.
1530: </strong></font><br>
1531: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1532: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1533: Tech Anthems</a>
1534: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1535: 4 so far.
1536: <p>
1537:
1538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1539: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1540: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1541: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1542: </strong></font><br>
1543: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1544: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1545: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1546: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1547: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1548: Goes on to say:
1549: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1550: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1551: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1552: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1553: This article is also found online at:
1554: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1556: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1557: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1558: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1559: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1561: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1562: ZDnet</a>,
1563: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1564: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1566: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1567: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1568: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1569: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1570: </ul>
1.260 ian 1571: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1572:
1.260 ian 1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1574: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1575: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1576: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1577: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1578: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1579: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1580: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1581: without notice or justification.
1582: <p>
1583:
1584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1585: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1586: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1587: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1588: </strong></font><br>
1589: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1590: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1591: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1592: effective today, without any warning..."
1593: <p>
1.257 ian 1594:
1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1596: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1597: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1598: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1599: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1600: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1601: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1602: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1603: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1604: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1605: <p>
1606:
1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1608: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1609: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1610: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1611: </strong></font><br>
1612: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1613: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1614: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1615: quoting two of them:
1616: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1617: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1618: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1619: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1620: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1621: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1622: <p>
1623:
1.255 ian 1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1625: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1626: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1627: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1628: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1629: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1630: <p>
1631:
1632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1633: [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 1634: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1635: </strong></font><br>
1636: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1637: <p>
1638:
1639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1640: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1641: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1642: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1643: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1644: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1645: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1646: security experts for more than three decades."
1647: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1648: <p>
1.261 ian 1649:
1.254 drahn 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1651: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1652: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1653: </strong></font><br>
1654: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1655: <p>
1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1658: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1659: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1660: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1661: </strong></font><br>
1662: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1663: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1664: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1665: <p>
1666:
1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1668: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1669: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1670: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1671: </strong></font><br>
1672: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1673: from US DARPA.
1674: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1675: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1676: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1677: the BSD license.
1678: <p>
1679: </ul>
1680:
1.251 ian 1681: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1682: <ul>
1683:
1684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1685: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1686: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1687: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1688: </strong></font><br>
1689:
1690: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1691: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1692: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1693: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1694: <p>
1695:
1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1697: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1698: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1699: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1700: </strong></font><br>
1701: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1702: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1703: Mentions
1704: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1705: and
1706: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1707: programs.
1708: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1709: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1710: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1711: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1712: <p>
1.325 ian 1713: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1714: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1715:
1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1717: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1718: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1719: </strong></font><br>
1720: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1721: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1722: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1723: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1724: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1725: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1726: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1727: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1728: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1729: put into service."
1730: <p>
1731: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1732: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1733: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1734: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1735: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1736: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1737: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1738: computers with security features."
1739: <p>
1.329 ian 1740:
1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1742: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1743: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1744: Slate,
1745: March 3, 2003.
1746: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1747: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1748: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1749: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1750: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1751: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1752: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1753: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1754: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1755: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1756: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1757: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1758: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1759: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1760: of more secure open-source solutions like
1761: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1762: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1763: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1764: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1765: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1766: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1767: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1768: the Beltway."
1769: <p>
1.251 ian 1770: </ul>
1771:
1.249 jufi 1772: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1773: <ul>
1774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1775: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1776: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1777: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1778: </strong></font><br>
1779: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1780: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1781: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1782: <p>
1.334 ian 1783:
1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1785: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1786: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1787: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1788: </strong></font><br>
1789: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1790: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1791: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1792: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1793: "... the hypothetical question ...
1794: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1795: <br>
1796: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1797: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1798: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1799: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1800: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1801: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1802: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1803: support network security.
1804: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1805: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1806: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1807: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1808: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1809: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1810: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1811: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1812: <br>
1813: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1814: <p>
1815:
1.249 jufi 1816: </ul>
1817:
1.246 jufi 1818: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1819: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1820:
1.247 jufi 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1822: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1823: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1824: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1825: </strong></font><br>
1826: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1827: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1828: <p>
1829:
1.247 jufi 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1831: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1832: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1833: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1834: </strong></font><br>
1835: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1836: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1837: <p>
1838:
1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1840: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1841: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1842: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1843: </strong></font><br>
1844: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1845: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1846: <p>
1.247 jufi 1847: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1848:
1.244 jufi 1849: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1850: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1851:
1.247 jufi 1852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1853: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1854: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1855: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1856: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1857: </strong></font><br>
1858: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1859: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1860: md5 digests.
1861: <p>
1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1864: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1865: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1866: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1867: </strong></font><br>
1868: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1869: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1870: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1871: right the first time."
1872: <p>
1.247 jufi 1873: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1874:
1875:
1876: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1877: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1878:
1.247 jufi 1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1880: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1881: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1882: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1883: </strong></font><br>
1884: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1885: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1886: part 6</a>.
1887: <p>
1888:
1.247 jufi 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1890: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1891: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1892: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1893: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1894: </strong></font><br>
1895: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1896: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1897: <p>
1.301 jose 1898:
1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1900: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1901: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1902: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1903: </strong></font><br>
1904:
1905: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1906: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1907: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1908: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1909: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1910: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1911: <i>Here's the
1912: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1913: <p>
1.247 jufi 1914: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1915:
1916: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1917: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1918:
1.247 jufi 1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1920: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1921: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1922: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1923: </strong></font><br>
1924: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1925: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1926: <p>
1927:
1.247 jufi 1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1929: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1930: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1931: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1932: </strong></font><br>
1933: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1934: this time using pf.
1935: <p>
1.247 jufi 1936: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1937:
1938: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1939: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1942: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1943: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1944: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1945: </strong></font><br>
1946: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1947: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1948: their rotation.
1949: <p>
1950:
1.247 jufi 1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1952: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1953: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1954: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1955: </strong></font><br>
1956: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1957: <p>
1.247 jufi 1958: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1959:
1.239 jufi 1960: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1961: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1962:
1.247 jufi 1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1964: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1965: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1966: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1969: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1970: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1971: <p>
1972:
1.247 jufi 1973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1974: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1975: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1976: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1977: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1978: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1979: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1980: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1981: <p>
1.247 jufi 1982: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1983:
1.235 lebel 1984: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1985: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1986:
1.239 jufi 1987:
1.247 jufi 1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1989: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1990: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1991: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1992: </strong></font><br>
1993: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1994: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1995: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1996: <p>
1.301 jose 1997:
1.247 jufi 1998: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1999:
1.228 horacio 2000: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2001: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2002:
1.247 jufi 2003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2004: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2005: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2006: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2007: </strong></font><br>
2008: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2009: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2010: <p>
2011:
1.247 jufi 2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2013: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2014: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2015: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2016: </strong></font><br>
2017: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2018: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2019: <p>
2020:
1.247 jufi 2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2022: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2023: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2024: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2025: </strong></font><br>
2026: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2027: on the desktop of his parents.
2028: <p>
2029:
1.247 jufi 2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2031: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2032: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2033: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2034: </strong></font><br>
2035: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2036: using IPFilter.
2037:
2038: <p>
2039:
1.247 jufi 2040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2041: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2042: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2043: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2044: </strong></font><br>
2045: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2046: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2047: perspectives of the four OS.
2048: <br>
2049: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2050: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2051: <p>
2052:
1.247 jufi 2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2054: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2055: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2056: software and security</a>,
2057: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2058: </strong></font><br>
2059:
2060: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2061: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2062: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2063: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2064: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2065: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2066: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2067: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2068: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2069: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2070: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2071: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2072: <p>
1.247 jufi 2073: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2074:
1.225 horacio 2075: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2076: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2077:
1.247 jufi 2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2079: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2080: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2081: Interview</a>,
2082: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2083: </strong></font><br>
2084:
2085: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2086: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2087: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2088: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2089: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2090: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2091: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2092: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2093: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2094: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2095: of choice.
2096: <p>
1.247 jufi 2097: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2098:
2099: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2100: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2101:
1.247 jufi 2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2103: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2104: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2105: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2106: </strong></font><br>
2107:
2108: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2109: <p>
2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2112: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2113: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2114: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2115: </strong></font><br>
2116:
2117: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2118: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2119: <p>
1.247 jufi 2120: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2121:
1.218 horacio 2122: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2123: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2124:
1.247 jufi 2125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2126: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2127: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2128: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2129: </strong></font><br>
2130:
2131: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2132: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2133: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2134: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2135: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2136: subjects. Worth a read.
2137: <p>
2138:
2139:
1.247 jufi 2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2141: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2142: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2143: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2144: </strong></font><br>
2145:
2146: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2147: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2148: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2149: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2150: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2151: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2152: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2153: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2154: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2155: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2156: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2157: on other operating systems.<br>
2158: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2159: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2160: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2161: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2162: <p>
2163:
1.247 jufi 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2165: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2166: Operating System 2010</a>,
2167: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2168: </strong></font><br>
2169:
2170: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2171: covering the level of software integration into the core
2172: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2173: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2174: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2175: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2176: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2177: <p>
2178:
1.247 jufi 2179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2180: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2181: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2182: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2183: </strong></font><br>
2184:
2185: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2186: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2187: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2188: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2189: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2190: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2191: <p>
1.247 jufi 2192: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2193:
1.210 jufi 2194: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2195: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2198: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2199: Already a Contender</a>,
2200: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2201: </strong></font><br>
2202:
2203: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2204: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2205: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2206: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2207: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2208: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2209: <p>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2212: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2213: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2214: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2215: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2216:
1.224 horacio 2217: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2218: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2219: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2220: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2221: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2222: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2223: <p>
1.247 jufi 2224: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2225:
2226: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2227: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2228:
1.247 jufi 2229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2230: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2231: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2232: Division</a>,
2233: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2234: </strong></font><br>
2235:
2236: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2237: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2238: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2239: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2240: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2241: investment</em>.<br>
2242: The implementation details can be seen on their
2243: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2244: <p>
2245:
1.247 jufi 2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2247: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2248: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2249: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2250: </strong></font><br>
2251:
2252: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2253: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2254: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2255: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2256: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2257: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2258: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2259: <p>
2260:
2261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2262: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2263: Thinking about Security</a>,
2264: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2265: </strong></font><br>
2266:
2267: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2268: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2269: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2270: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2271: to time.<br>
2272: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2273: system and just the most secure system.
2274: <p>
2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2277: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2278: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2279: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2280: </strong></font><br>
2281:
2282: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2283: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2284: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2285: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2286: choice:<br>
2287: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2288: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2289: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2290: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2291: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2292: network security devices and as such must be well
2293: armored."</em><br>
2294: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2295: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2296: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2297: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2298: <br>
2299: Bravo!
2300: <p>
1.247 jufi 2301: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2302:
1.207 ian 2303: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2304: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2305:
1.247 jufi 2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2307: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2308: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2309: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2310:
1.207 ian 2311: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2312: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2313: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2314: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2315: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2316: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2317: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2318: <p>
1.247 jufi 2319: </ul>
1.207 ian 2320:
1.194 jufi 2321: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2322: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2323:
1.247 jufi 2324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2325: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2326: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2327: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2328: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2329:
1.240 miod 2330: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2331: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2332: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2333: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2334: <p>
2335:
1.247 jufi 2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2337: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2338: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2339: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2340:
2341: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2342: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2346: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2347: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2348: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2349:
2350: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2351: <p>
2352:
2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2354: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2355: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2356: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2357: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2358:
1.240 miod 2359: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2360: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2361: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2362: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2363: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2364: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2365: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2366: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2367: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2368: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2369: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2370: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2371: <p>
2372:
1.247 jufi 2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2374: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2375: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2376: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2377: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2378:
1.194 jufi 2379: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2380: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2381: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2382: <br>
2383: The new
2384: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2385: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2386: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2387: <p>
1.247 jufi 2388: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2389:
1.190 horacio 2390: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2391: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2394:
2395: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2396: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2397:
1.301 jose 2398:
1.191 jufi 2399: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2400: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2401:
2402: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2403: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2404:
1.212 horacio 2405: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2406: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2407: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2408:
1.211 horacio 2409: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2410: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2411: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2412:
1.247 jufi 2413: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2414: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2415:
1.247 jufi 2416: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2417: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2418:
1.212 horacio 2419: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2420: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2421: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2422:
2423: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2424: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2425:
2426: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2427: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2428:
1.301 jose 2429: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2430: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2431:
1.191 jufi 2432: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2433: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2434:
2435: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2436: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2437:
1.192 jufi 2438: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2439: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2440: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2441:
1.193 deraadt 2442: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2443: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2444: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2447: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2450: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2451: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2452:
1.213 horacio 2453: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2454: 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 2455: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2456:
1.190 horacio 2457: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2458: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2459: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2460: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2461: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2462: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2463: <p>
1.190 horacio 2464:
1.247 jufi 2465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2466: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2467: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2468: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2469: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2470:
1.195 jufi 2471: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2472: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2473: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2474: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2475: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2476: <p>
2477:
1.247 jufi 2478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2479: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2480: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2481: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2482: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2483:
1.191 jufi 2484: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2485: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2486: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2487: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2488: <p>
2489:
2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2491: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2492: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2493: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2494:
2495: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2496: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2497: <p>
1.247 jufi 2498: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2499:
1.191 jufi 2500:
1.186 jufi 2501: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2502: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2503:
1.247 jufi 2504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2505: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2506: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2507: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2508: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2509:
1.188 jufi 2510: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2511: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2512: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2513: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2514: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2515: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2516: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2517: <p>
2518:
1.301 jose 2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2520: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2521: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2522: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2523:
2524: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2525: <p>
1.191 jufi 2526:
1.247 jufi 2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2528: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2529: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2530: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2531: </strong></font><br>
2532:
2533: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2534: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2535: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2536: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2537: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2538: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2539: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2540: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2541: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2542: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2543: familiar?
2544: <p>
1.247 jufi 2545: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2546:
1.178 louis 2547: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2548: <ul>
1.178 louis 2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2551: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2552: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2553: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2554: </strong></font><br>
2555:
2556: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2557: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2558: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2559: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2560: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2561: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2562: <p>
2563:
1.247 jufi 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2565: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2566: Open source under the hood</a>,
2567: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2568: </strong></font><br>
2569:
2570: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2571: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2572: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2573: <p>
2574:
1.247 jufi 2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2576: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2577: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2578: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2579: </strong></font><br>
2580:
2581: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2582: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2583: <p>
1.247 jufi 2584: </ul>
1.179 louis 2585:
1.174 louis 2586:
1.175 louis 2587: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2588: <ul>
1.175 louis 2589:
1.247 jufi 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2591: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2592: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2593: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2594: </strong></font><br>
2595:
2596: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2597: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2598: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2599: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2600: <p>
2601:
1.247 jufi 2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2603: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2604: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2605: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2606: </strong></font><br>
2607:
2608: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2609: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2610: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2611: <p>
1.247 jufi 2612: </ul>
1.175 louis 2613:
1.176 louis 2614:
1.172 mickey 2615: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2616: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2617:
1.247 jufi 2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2619: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2620: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2621: </strong></font><br>
2622:
2623: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2624: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2625: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2626: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2627: <p>
2628:
1.247 jufi 2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2630: <a
1.269 deraadt 2631: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2632: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2633: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2634: </strong></font><br>
2635:
2636: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2637: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2638: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2639: <p>
2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2642: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2643: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2644: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2645: </strong></font><br>
2646:
2647: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2648: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2649: <p>
2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2652: <a
1.269 deraadt 2653: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2654: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2655: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2656: </strong></font><br>
2657:
2658: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2659: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2660: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2661: our own Theo de Raadt.
2662: <p>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2665: <a
1.269 deraadt 2666: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2667: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2668: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2669: </strong></font><br>
2670:
2671: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2672: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2673: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2674: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2675: shut down.]
2676: <p>
2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2679: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2680: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2681: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2682: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2683: </strong></font><br>
2684:
2685: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2686: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2687: <p>
1.247 jufi 2688: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2689:
1.161 louis 2690: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2691: <ul>
1.161 louis 2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2694: <a
1.269 deraadt 2695: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2696: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2697: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2698: </strong></font><br>
2699:
2700: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2701: by John Wolley
2702: <p>
2703:
1.247 jufi 2704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2705: <a
1.269 deraadt 2706: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2707: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2708: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2709: </strong></font><br>
2710:
2711: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2712: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2713: OpenBSD).
2714: <p>
2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2717: <a
1.247 jufi 2718: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2719: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2720: </strong></font><br>
2721:
2722: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2723: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2724: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2725: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2726: and hindsight.
2727: <p>
2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2730: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2731: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2732: </strong></font><br>
2733:
2734: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2738: <a
1.168 provos 2739: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2740: December 7, 2000
2741: </strong></font><br>
2742:
2743: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2744: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2745: us explain.
2746: <p>
2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2749: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2750: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2751: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2752: December 6, 2000
2753: </strong></font><br>
2754:
2755: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2756: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2757: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2758: <p>
2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2761: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2762: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2763: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2764: </strong></font><br>
2765:
2766: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2767: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2768: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2769: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2770: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2771: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2772: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2773: <p>
2774:
2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2776: <a
1.226 horacio 2777: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2778: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2782: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2783: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2784: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2785: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2786: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2787: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2788: <p>
1.162 millert 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2791: <a
1.161 louis 2792: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2793: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2794: </strong></font><br>
2795:
2796: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2797: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2798: <p>
2799:
1.247 jufi 2800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2801: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2802: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2803: </strong></font><br>
2804:
2805: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2806: <p>
2807:
2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2810: <a
1.226 horacio 2811: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2812: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2813: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2814: </strong></font><br>
2815:
2816: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2817: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2818: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2819: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2820: <p>
1.247 jufi 2821: </ul>
1.169 louis 2822:
1.158 louis 2823: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2824: <ul>
1.147 louis 2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2827: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2828: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2829: </strong></font><br>
2830:
2831: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2832: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2833: <p>
2834:
1.247 jufi 2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2836: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2837: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2838: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2839: </strong></font><br>
2840: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2841: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2842: <p>
2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2845: <a
2846: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2847: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2848: </strong></font><br>
2849:
2850: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2851: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2852: <p>
2853:
1.247 jufi 2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2855: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2856: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2857: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2858:
1.213 horacio 2859: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2860: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2861: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2862: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2863: <p>
1.215 horacio 2864:
1.247 jufi 2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2866: <a
2867: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2868: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2869: </strong></font><br>
2870:
2871: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2872: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2873: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2874: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2875: much of the attitude too).
2876: <p>
1.161 louis 2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2879: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2880: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2881: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2882:
1.157 louis 2883: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2884: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2885: <p>
1.247 jufi 2886: </ul>
1.157 louis 2887:
2888: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2889: <ul>
1.157 louis 2890:
1.247 jufi 2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2892: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2893: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2894: </strong></font><br>
2895:
2896: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2897: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2898: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2899: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2900: <p>
2901:
1.247 jufi 2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2903: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2904: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2905: </strong></font><br>
2906:
2907: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2908: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2909: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2910: it because they love coding...
2911: <p>
2912:
1.247 jufi 2913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2914: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2915: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2916: </strong></font><br>
2917:
2918: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2919: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2920: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2921: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2922: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2923: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2924: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2925: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2926: <p>
2927:
1.247 jufi 2928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2929: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2930: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2931: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2932: </strong></font><br>
2933:
2934: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2935: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2936: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2937: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2938: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2939: the pizza.
2940: <p>
2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2943: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2944: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2945: </strong></font><br>
2946:
2947: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2948: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2949: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2950: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2951: problems.
2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2955: <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 2956: </strong></font><br>
2957:
1.222 miod 2958: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2959: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2960: - whether they like it or not.
2961: <p>
2962:
1.247 jufi 2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2964: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2965: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2966: </strong></font><br>
2967:
2968: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2969: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2970: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2971: <p>
1.148 aaron 2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2974: <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 2975: </strong></font><br>
2976:
2977: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2978: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2979: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2980: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2981: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2982: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2983: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2984: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2985: <p>
2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2988: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2989: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2990: </strong></font><br>
2991:
2992: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2993: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 2994: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 2995: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2996: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2997: <p>
1.247 jufi 2998: </ul>
1.147 louis 2999:
1.138 louis 3000: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3001: <ul>
1.138 louis 3002:
1.247 jufi 3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3004: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3005: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3006: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3007: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3008: </strong></font><br>
3009:
1.227 horacio 3010: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3011: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3012: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3013: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3014: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3015: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3016: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3017: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3018: <p>
3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3021: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3022: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3023: </strong></font><br>
3024:
3025: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3026: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3027: groups, and even Linux.
3028: <p>
3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3031: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3032: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3033: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3034: </strong></font><br>
3035:
3036: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3037: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3038: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3039: library after installing the OS.
3040: <p>
3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3043: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3044: Sys Admin, September 2000
3045: </strong></font><br>
3046:
3047: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3048: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3049: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3050: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3051: (<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>,
3052: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3053: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3054: <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 3055: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3056: out of the system.
3057: <p>
3058:
1.247 jufi 3059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3060: <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
3061: </strong></font><br>
3062:
3063: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3064: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3065: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3066: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3067: the IP filtering and address translation.
3068: <p>
1.301 jose 3069:
3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3071: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3072: </strong></font><br>
3073:
3074: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3075: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3076: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3077: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3078: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3079: <p>
1.247 jufi 3080: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3081:
1.131 louis 3082: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3083: <ul>
1.131 louis 3084:
1.247 jufi 3085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3086: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3087: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3088: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3089: </strong></font><br>
3090:
3091: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3092: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3093: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3094: <p>
3095:
1.247 jufi 3096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3097: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3098: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3099: </strong></font><br>
3100:
3101: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3102: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3103: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3104: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3105: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3106: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3107: note of"</i>.
3108: <p>
3109:
1.247 jufi 3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3111: <a
1.247 jufi 3112: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3113: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3114: </strong></font><br>
3115:
3116: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3117: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3118: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3119: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3120: <p>
3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3123: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3124: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3125: </strong></font><br>
3126:
3127: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3128: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3129: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3130: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3131: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3132: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3133: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3134: <p>
3135:
1.247 jufi 3136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3137: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3138: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3139: 2000
3140: </strong></font><br>
3141:
3142: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3143: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3144: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3145: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3146: against current industry practices.
3147: <p>
3148:
1.247 jufi 3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3150: <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
3151: </strong></font><br>
3152:
3153: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3154: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3155: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3156: <p>
3157:
1.247 jufi 3158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3159: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3160: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3161: </strong></font><br>
3162:
3163: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3164: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3165: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3166: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3167: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3168: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3169: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3170: <p>
3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3173: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3174: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3175: </strong></font><br>
3176:
3177: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3178: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3179: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3180: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3181: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3182: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3183: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3184: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3185: <p>
1.247 jufi 3186: </ul>
1.131 louis 3187:
1.118 louis 3188: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3189: <ul>
1.118 louis 3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3192: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3193: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3194: </strong></font><br>
3195:
3196: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3197: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3198: about time. The article mentions that
3199: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3200: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3201: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3202: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3203: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3204: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3205: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3206: <p>
3207:
1.247 jufi 3208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3209: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3210: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3211: </strong></font><br>
3212:
3213: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3214: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3215: of OpenSSH.
3216: <p>
3217:
1.247 jufi 3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3219: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3220: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3221: </strong></font><br>
3222:
3223: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3224: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3225: bridging.
3226: <p>
3227:
1.247 jufi 3228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3229: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3230: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3231: </strong></font><br>
3232:
1.121 deraadt 3233: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3234: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3235: <p>
3236:
1.247 jufi 3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3238: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3239: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3240: </strong></font><br>
3241:
3242: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3243: <p>
3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3246: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3247: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3248: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3249: </strong></font><br>
3250:
1.120 deraadt 3251: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3252: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3253: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3254: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3255: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3256: <p>
3257:
1.247 jufi 3258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3259: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3260: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3261: </strong></font><br>
3262:
1.222 miod 3263: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3264: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3265: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3266: protocols and their quirks.
3267: <p>
3268:
1.247 jufi 3269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3270: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3271: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3272: </strong></font><br>
3273:
3274: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3275: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3276: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3277: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3278: <p>
3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3281: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3282: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3283: </strong></font><br>
3284:
3285: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3286: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3287: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3288: <p>
3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3291: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3292: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3293: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3294: </strong></font><br>
3295:
3296: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3297: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3298: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3299: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3300: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3301: <p>
1.247 jufi 3302: </ul>
1.118 louis 3303:
1.104 louis 3304: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3305: <ul>
1.104 louis 3306:
1.247 jufi 3307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3308: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3309: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3310: </strong></font><br>
3311:
3312: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3313: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3314: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3315: be a bit dry.
3316: <p>
3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3319: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3320: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3321: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3322: </strong></font><br>
3323: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3324: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3325: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3326: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3327: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3328: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3329: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3330: <p>
3331:
1.247 jufi 3332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3333: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3334: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3335: 2000
1.128 louis 3336: </strong></font><br>
3337:
3338: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3339: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3340: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3341: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3342: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3343: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3344: <p>
3345:
1.247 jufi 3346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3347: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3348: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3349: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3350:
3351: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3352: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3353: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3354: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3355: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3356: <p>
1.110 louis 3357:
1.247 jufi 3358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3359: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3360: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3361: </strong></font><br>
3362:
3363: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3364: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3365: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3366: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3367: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3368: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3369: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3370: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3371: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3372: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3373: <p>
3374:
1.247 jufi 3375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3376: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3377: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3378:
3379: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3380: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3381: <p>
1.108 louis 3382:
1.247 jufi 3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3384: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3385: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3386: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3387:
3388: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3389: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3390: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3391: <p>
1.106 louis 3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3394: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3395: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3396: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3397:
3398: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3399: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3400: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3401: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3402: <p>
1.107 louis 3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3405: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3406: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3407: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3408:
3409: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3410: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3411: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3412: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3413: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3414: <p>
1.105 louis 3415:
1.247 jufi 3416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3417: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3418: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3419: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3420:
1.113 naddy 3421: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3422: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3423: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3424: <p>
1.104 louis 3425:
1.247 jufi 3426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3427: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3428: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3429: </strong></font><br>
3430:
3431: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3432: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3433: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3434: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3435: <p>
1.301 jose 3436:
3437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3438: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3439: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3440: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3441:
3442: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3443: hardware-supported cryptography.
3444: <p>
1.247 jufi 3445: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3446:
1.85 louis 3447: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3448: <ul>
1.85 louis 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3451: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3452: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3453: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3454:
3455: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3456: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3457: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3458: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3459: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3460: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3461: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3462: <p>
1.99 louis 3463:
1.247 jufi 3464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3465: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3466: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3467: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3468:
3469: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3470: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3471: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3472: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3473: <p>
1.100 louis 3474:
1.247 jufi 3475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3476: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3477: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3478: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3479:
3480: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3481: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3482: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3483: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3484: <p>
1.95 louis 3485:
1.247 jufi 3486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3487: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3488: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3489: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3490:
3491: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3492: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3493: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3494: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3495: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3496: <p>
1.92 louis 3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3499: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3500: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3501: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3502:
3503: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3504: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3505: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3506: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3507: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3508: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3509: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3510: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3511: <p>
1.91 louis 3512:
1.247 jufi 3513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3514: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3515: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3516: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3517:
3518: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3519: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3520: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3521: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3522: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3523: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3524: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3525: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3526: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3527: <p>
1.90 louis 3528:
1.247 jufi 3529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3530: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3531: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3532: </strong></font><br>
3533: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3534: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3535: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3536: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3537: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3538: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3539: <p>
3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3542: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3543: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3544: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3545:
1.113 naddy 3546: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3547: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3548: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3549: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3550: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3551: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3552: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3553: <p>
1.87 louis 3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3556: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3557: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3558: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3559:
3560: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3561: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3562: <p>
1.85 louis 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3565: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3566: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3567: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3568:
3569: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3570: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3571: <p>
3572:
3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3574: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3575: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3576: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3577:
3578: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3579: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3580: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3581: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3582: <p>
1.89 louis 3583:
1.247 jufi 3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3585: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3586: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3587: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3588:
3589: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3590: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3591: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3592: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3593: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3594: </ul>
1.85 louis 3595:
1.78 deraadt 3596: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3597: <ul>
1.74 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3600: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3601: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3602: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3603: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3604:
3605: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3606: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3607: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3608: <p>
1.83 louis 3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3611: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3612: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3613: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3614:
3615: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3616: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3617: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3618: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3619: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3620: <p>
1.93 louis 3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3623: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3624: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3625: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3626: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3627:
1.83 louis 3628: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3629: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3630: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3631: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3632: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3633: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3634: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3635: <p>
1.82 aaron 3636:
1.247 jufi 3637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3638: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3639: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3640: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3641:
1.83 louis 3642: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3643: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3644: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3645: <p>
1.80 louis 3646:
1.247 jufi 3647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3648: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3649: Bad Press</a>,
3650: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3651: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3652:
3653: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3654: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3655: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3656: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3657: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3658: <p>
1.247 jufi 3659: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3660:
3661: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3662: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3663:
1.247 jufi 3664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3665: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3666: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3667: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3668: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3669:
3670: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3671: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3672: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3673: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3674: <p>
1.74 louis 3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3677: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3678: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3679: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3680:
1.219 horacio 3681: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3682: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3683: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3684: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3685: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3686: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3687: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3688: <p>
1.88 louis 3689:
1.247 jufi 3690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3691: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3692: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3693: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3694:
3695: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3696: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3697: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3698: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3699: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3700: <p>
1.81 louis 3701:
1.247 jufi 3702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3703: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3704: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3705: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3706:
3707: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3708: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3709: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3710: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3711: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3712: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3713: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3714: <p>
1.90 louis 3715:
1.247 jufi 3716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3717: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3718: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3719: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3720:
3721: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3722: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3723: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3724: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3725: <p>
1.247 jufi 3726: </ul>
1.71 louis 3727:
1.69 deraadt 3728: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3729: <ul>
1.70 louis 3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3732: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3733: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3734: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3735:
3736: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3737: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3738: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3739: <p>
1.70 louis 3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3742: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3743: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3744: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3745:
3746: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3747: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3748: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3749: <p>
1.68 louis 3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3752: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3753: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3754: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3755: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3756:
1.111 jufi 3757: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3758: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3759: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3760: "secure by default" installation.
3761: <p>
1.64 louis 3762:
1.247 jufi 3763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3764: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3765: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3766: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3767:
1.113 naddy 3768: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3769: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3770: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3771: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3772: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3773: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3774: <p>
1.66 louis 3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3777: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3778: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3779: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3780:
3781: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3782: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3783: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3784: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3785: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3786: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3787: <p>
1.83 louis 3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3790: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3791: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3792: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3793:
3794: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3795: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3796: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3797: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3798: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3799: <p>
1.64 louis 3800:
1.247 jufi 3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3802: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3803: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3804: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3805:
3806: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3807: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3808: <p>
1.301 jose 3809:
3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3811: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3812: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3813: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3814: </strong></font><br>
3815:
3816: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3817: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3818: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3819: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3820: Giving way to
3821: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3822: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3823: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3824: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3825: <p>
1.247 jufi 3826: </ul>
1.65 louis 3827:
1.69 deraadt 3828: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3829: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3830:
1.247 jufi 3831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3832: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3833: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3834: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3835:
3836: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3837: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3838: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3839: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3840: <p>
1.88 louis 3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3843: <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 3844: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3845:
3846: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3847: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3848: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3849: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3850: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3851: <p>
1.60 louis 3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3854: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3855: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3856: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3857: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3858:
3859: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3860: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3861: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3862: <p>
1.58 louis 3863:
1.247 jufi 3864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3865: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3866: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3867:
3868: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3869: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3870: <p>
1.53 louis 3871:
1.247 jufi 3872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3873: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3874: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3875: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3876:
3877: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3878: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3879: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3880: <p>
1.99 louis 3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3883: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3884: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3885:
3886: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3887: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3888: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3889: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3890: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3893: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3894: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3895: </strong></font><br>
3896:
3897: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3898: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3899: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3900: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3901: <p>
3902:
1.247 jufi 3903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3904: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3905: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3906: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3907:
3908: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3909: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3910: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3911:
1.247 jufi 3912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3913: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3914: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3915:
3916: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3917: in
1.247 jufi 3918: <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 3919: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3920: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3921: <p>
1.53 louis 3922:
1.247 jufi 3923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3924: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3925: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3926: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3927: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3928:
1.58 louis 3929: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3930: <p>
1.301 jose 3931:
3932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3933: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3934: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3935: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3936: Informacyjny, January 2000
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3940: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3941: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3942: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3943: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3944: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3945: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3946: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3947: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3948: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3949: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3950: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3951: <p>
3952:
3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3954: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3955: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3956: </strong></font><br>
3957:
3958: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3959: <p>
3960: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3961:
1.69 deraadt 3962: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3963: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3964:
1.247 jufi 3965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3966: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3967: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3968: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3969: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3970:
1.58 louis 3971: Kurt Seifried
3972: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3973: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3974: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3975: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3976:
1.247 jufi 3977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3978: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3979: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3980: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3981:
3982: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3983: <p>
1.96 louis 3984:
1.247 jufi 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3986: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3987: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3988: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3989: </strong></font><br>
3990:
3991: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3992: <p>
3993:
3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3995: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3996: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3997: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3998:
3999: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4000: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4001: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4002: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4003: <p>
1.247 jufi 4004: </ul>
1.86 louis 4005:
1.69 deraadt 4006: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4007: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4008:
1.247 jufi 4009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4010: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4011: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4012: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4013:
4014: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4015: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4016: <p>
1.61 louis 4017:
1.247 jufi 4018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4019: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4020: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4021: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4022: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4023:
4024: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4025: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4026: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4027: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4028: right -- or at least strives to".
4029: <p>
1.48 louis 4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4032: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4033: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4034: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4035: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4036: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4037: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4038: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4039: <p>
1.61 louis 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <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 4042: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4043: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4044:
4045: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4046: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4047: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4048: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4049: <p>
1.46 louis 4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4052: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4053: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4054: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4055:
4056: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4057: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4058: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4059:
1.247 jufi 4060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4061: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4062: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4063: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4064:
4065: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4066: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4067: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4068: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4069: <p>
1.247 jufi 4070: </ul>
1.70 louis 4071:
1.69 deraadt 4072: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4073: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4074:
1.247 jufi 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4076: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4077: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4078: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4079: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4080:
4081: Kurt Seifried
4082: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4083: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4084: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4085: <p>
1.44 philen 4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <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 4088: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4089: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4090:
4091: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4092: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4093:
1.247 jufi 4094: <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 4095: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4096: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4097:
4098: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4099: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4100:
1.247 jufi 4101: <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 4102: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4103: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4104:
4105: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4106: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4107: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4108: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4109: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4110:
1.247 jufi 4111: <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 4112: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4113: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4114:
1.36 louis 4115: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4116: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4117:
1.247 jufi 4118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4119: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4120: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4121: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4122:
4123: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4124: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4125: </ul>
1.38 louis 4126:
1.69 deraadt 4127: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4128: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <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 4131: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4133:
4134: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4135: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4136: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4137:
1.113 naddy 4138: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4139: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4140: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4141: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4142:
4143: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4144: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4145: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4146: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4147: <blockquote>
4148: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4149: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4150: <br>
4151: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4152: </code>
4153: </blockquote>
4154: <p>
4155:
1.247 jufi 4156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4157: <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 4158: <p>
4159:
4160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4161: <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 4162: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4163:
4164: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4165: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4166: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4167: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4168:
1.247 jufi 4169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4170: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4171: Sept. 28, 1999
4172: </strong></font><br>
4173:
4174: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4175: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4176: translating and reprinting articles from
4177: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4178: <p>
4179:
4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4181: <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 4182: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4183:
4184: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4185: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4186: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4187: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4188: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4189: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4190: <p>
1.19 louis 4191:
1.113 naddy 4192: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4193: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4194: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4195:
4196: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4197: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4198: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4199: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4200: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4201: <p>
1.16 louis 4202:
1.247 jufi 4203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4204: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4205: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4206: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4207:
1.57 louis 4208: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4209: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4210: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4211: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4212:
1.247 jufi 4213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4214: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4215: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4216: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4217:
1.113 naddy 4218: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4219:
1.247 jufi 4220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4221: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4222: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4223: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4224:
1.23 louis 4225: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4226: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4227: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4228: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4229: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4230: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4233: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4234: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4235: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4236:
1.199 pvalchev 4237: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4238: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4239: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4240: installation.
1.113 naddy 4241: <p>
1.47 louis 4242:
1.247 jufi 4243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4244: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4245: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4246: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4247:
1.301 jose 4248: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4249: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4250: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4251: </ul>
1.57 louis 4252:
1.69 deraadt 4253: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4254: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4255:
1.247 jufi 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4257: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4258: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4259: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4260:
4261: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4262: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4263: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4264: <p>
1.12 louis 4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4267: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4268: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4269: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4270:
4271: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4272: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4273: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4274: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4275: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4276: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4277: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4278: <p>
1.247 jufi 4279: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4280:
1.69 deraadt 4281: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4282: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4283:
1.247 jufi 4284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4285: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4286: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4287:
4288: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4289: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4290: available."
1.113 naddy 4291: <p>
1.301 jose 4292:
4293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4294: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4295: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4296: </strong></font><br>
4297:
4298: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4299: <p>
1.247 jufi 4300: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4301:
1.69 deraadt 4302: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4303: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4304:
1.247 jufi 4305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4306: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4307: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4308:
4309: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4310: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4311: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4312: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4313: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4314: <p>
1.33 louis 4315:
1.247 jufi 4316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4317: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4318: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4319: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4320:
1.113 naddy 4321: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4322: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4323: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4324: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4325: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4326: <p>
1.247 jufi 4327: </ul>
1.57 louis 4328:
1.69 deraadt 4329: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4330: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4331:
1.247 jufi 4332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4333: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4334: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4335: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4336:
4337: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4338: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4339: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4340:
1.247 jufi 4341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4342: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4343: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4344: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4345: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4346:
4347: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4348: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4349:
1.247 jufi 4350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4351: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4352:
1.113 naddy 4353: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4354:
1.247 jufi 4355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4356: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4357: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4358: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4359:
4360: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4361: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4362: </ul>
1.23 louis 4363:
1.69 deraadt 4364: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4365: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4366:
1.247 jufi 4367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4368: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4369: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4370:
4371: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4372: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4373: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4374:
1.247 jufi 4375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4376: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4377: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4378: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4379:
4380: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4381: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4382: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4383: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4384: </ul>
1.57 louis 4385:
1.69 deraadt 4386: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4387: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4390: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4391: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4392: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4393:
4394: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4395: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4396: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4397: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4398: <p>
1.15 louis 4399:
1.247 jufi 4400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4401: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4402: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4403: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4404:
4405: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4406: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4407: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4408: columns."
1.113 naddy 4409: <p>
1.247 jufi 4410: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4411:
1.69 deraadt 4412: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4413: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4414:
1.247 jufi 4415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4416: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4417: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4418: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4419:
4420: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4421: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4422:
1.113 naddy 4423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4424: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4425: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4426:
4427: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4428: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4429: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4430: </ul>
1.57 louis 4431:
1.69 deraadt 4432: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4433: <ul>
1.301 jose 4434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4435: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4436: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4437: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4438:
4439: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4440: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4441: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4442: <p>
4443:
4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4445: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4446: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4447: Nov 13, 1998 and
4448: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4449: Datateknik</a>,
4450: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4451:
1.380 saad 4452: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4453: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4454: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4455: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4456: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4457:
1.113 naddy 4458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4459: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4460: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4461: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4462:
1.222 miod 4463: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4464: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4465: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4466: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4467: <p>
1.247 jufi 4468: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4469:
1.69 deraadt 4470: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4471: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4472:
1.247 jufi 4473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4474: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4475: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4476:
1.69 deraadt 4477: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4478: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4479: <p>
1.247 jufi 4480: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4481:
1.69 deraadt 4482: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4483: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4486: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4487: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4488: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4489:
1.383 jcs 4490: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4491: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4492: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4493:
1.247 jufi 4494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4495: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4496: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4497: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4498: <p>
1.247 jufi 4499: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4500:
1.69 deraadt 4501: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4502: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4503:
1.247 jufi 4504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4505: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4506: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4507: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4508: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4509: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4510:
4511: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4512: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4513: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4514: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4515: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4516: <p>
1.247 jufi 4517: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4518:
4519: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4520: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4521:
1.247 jufi 4522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4523: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4524: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4525:
1.69 deraadt 4526: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4527: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4528: <p>
1.112 naddy 4529:
1.247 jufi 4530: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4531: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4532:
1.292 camield 4533: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4534: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4535: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.426 ! ian 4536: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.425 2004/12/09 02:18:40 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4537:
4538: </body>
4539: </html>
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