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1.431 ! ian 19: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
! 23: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
! 24: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 25: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
! 26: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
! 27: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
! 28: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have also have new drivers for Intel wireless
! 29: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
! 30: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
! 31: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
! 32: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
! 33: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
! 34: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
! 35: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
! 36: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
! 37:
! 38: </ul>
! 39:
1.427 matthieu 40: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
41: <ul>
42:
43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 44: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
45: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
46: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
47: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
48: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
49: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
50: firmware.
51: <p>
52:
53: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.429 matthieu 54: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/index.html">
1.427 matthieu 55: The importance of securing workstations</a>, ;login: Volume 30 number 1</strong></font><br>
56: This article in the Usenix magazine about the risks of unsecured
57: workstations and how to prevent them points, among others, to some of
58: the techniques (Propolice, W^X) used by OpenBSD to make workstations
1.430 ian 59: more immune to attacks (registration required).
1.428 david 60: <p>
1.430 ian 61:
1.427 matthieu 62: </ul>
63:
1.426 ian 64: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
65: <ul>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
68: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
69: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
70: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
71: This article talks about our systrace
72: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
73: mechanism: what it is and why and
74: how to use it, with examples.
75: Another excerpt from the book
76: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
77: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
81: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
82: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
83: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
84: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
85: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
86: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
87: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
88: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
89: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
90: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
91: This article is a sample chapter from
92: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
93: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
94: <p>
95: </ul>
96:
1.424 ian 97: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
98: <ul>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 101: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
102: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
103: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
104: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
105: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
106: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
107: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
108: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
109: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
110: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
111: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
112: <p>
113: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
114: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
115: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 119: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
120: Closed Source Hardware</a>
121: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
122: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
123: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
124: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
125: operating systems.
126: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
127: OpenBSD on his firewall.
128: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
129: systems, he writes:
130: <blockquote>
131: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
132: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
133: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
134: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
135: to the operating system...
136: <br/>
137: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
138: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
139: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
140: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
141: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
142: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
143: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
144: in a closed source operating system).
145: <br/>
146: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
147: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
148: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
149: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
150: </blockquote>
151: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
152: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
153: their hardware and software operates.
154: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
155: reverse-engineering the
156: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
157: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
158: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
159: <p>
160: </ul>
161:
1.417 pvalchev 162: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
163: <ul>
1.421 ian 164:
1.417 pvalchev 165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 166: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
167: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
168: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
169: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
170: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
171: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
172: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
173: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
174: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
175: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
176: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 177: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 178: <p>
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 180: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
181: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
182: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
183: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
184: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
185: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
186: it claims to do".
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 190: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
191: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
192: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
193: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
194: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 195: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 196: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
197: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
198: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
199: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
200: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
201: (yes, this is a hint).
202: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
203: picked up on the
204: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
205: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
206: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
207: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
208: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
209: <p>
210:
211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 212: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
213: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
214: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
215: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
216: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
217: questions about the significance and rationale behind
218: the current efforts.
219: <p>
220: </ul>
221:
1.407 henning 222: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
223: <ul>
224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 225: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
226: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
227: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
228: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
229: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
230: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
231: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
232: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 236: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
237: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
238: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
239: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
240: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
241: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
242: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
243: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
244: of the important changes in 3.6.
245: </p>
246:
247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 248: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
249: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
250: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
251: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
252: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
253: overflow attacks... because
254: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
255: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
256: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
257: and propolice.
258: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
259: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
260: and that's when the science falls apart."
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 264: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
265: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
266: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
267: Starts with the question:
268: <blockquote>
269: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
270: <br/>
271: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
272: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
273: <br/>
274: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
275: Should we believe them?"
276: </blockquote>
277: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
278: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
279: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
280: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
281: for your mail, web and other online activities.
282: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
283: <p>
284:
285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 286: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
287: Simple Simon</a>,
288: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
289: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
290: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
291: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
292: routing/firewall, and more.
293: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
294: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
295: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
296: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
297: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
298: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
299: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
300: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
301: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
302: </blockquote>
303: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
304: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
305: <p>
306:
307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 308: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
309: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 310: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 311: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 312: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
313: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
314: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 315: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 316: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
317: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
318: in spite of it
319: (registration required, but worth it).
320: <p>
321:
322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
323: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
324: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
325: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
326: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
327: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
328: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
329: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 330: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 331: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
332: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
333: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
334: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 338: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
339: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
340: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
341: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
342: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
343: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
344: <blockquote>
345: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
346: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
347: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
348: a lot of analysis.
349: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
350: </blockquote>
351: <p>
352: </ul>
353:
1.400 marco 354: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
355: <ul>
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 357: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
358: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
359: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
360: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
361: UNIX-like systems.
362: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
363: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
364: <p>
365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 366: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
367: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 368: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
369: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
370: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
371: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
372: At one point, the article states:
373: <blockquote>
374: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
375: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
376: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
377: </blockquote>
378: And then quotes Theo as saying:
379: <blockquote>
380: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
381: fewer are reading or auditing code."
382: </blockquote>
383: <p>
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
385: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
386: marks its fifth birthday</a>
387: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
388: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
389: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
390: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
391: required).
392: <p>
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 394: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
395: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
396: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
397: </strong></font><br>
398: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
399: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
400: <p>
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 402: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
403: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 404: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 405: </strong></font><br>
406: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
407: <p>
408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 409: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
410: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 411: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 412: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 413: 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 414: <p>
415: </ul>
416:
1.396 henning 417: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
418: <ul>
419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 420: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
421: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
422: Unix Review, July, 2004
423: </strong></font><br>
424: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
425: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
426: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
427: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
428: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
429: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
430: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
431: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
432: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
433: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
434: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
435: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
436: and even spelling/wording errors.
437: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
438: <p>
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 440: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 441: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
442: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
443: </strong></font><br>
444: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
445: <p>
446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 447: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 448: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
449: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
450: </strong></font><br>
451: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
452: <p>
453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 454: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
455: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
456: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
457: </strong></font><br>
458: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
459: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
460: <p>
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 462: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
463: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
464: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
465: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
466: <p>
467: </ul>
468:
1.405 jolan 469: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
470: <ul>
471: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
472: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
473: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
474: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
475: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
476: details on how funds are dispersed.
477: <p>
478: </ul>
479:
1.393 david 480: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
481: <ul>
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 483: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
484: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
485: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
486: </strong></font><br>
487: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
488: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
489: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
490: on inserting large number of SQL records.
491: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
492: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
493: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 497: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
498: Secure by Default</a>,
499: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
500: </strong></font><br>
501: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
502: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
506: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
507: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
508: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
509: </strong></font><br>
510: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
511: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
512: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
513: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
514: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
515: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
519: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
520: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
521: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
522: </strong></font><br>
523: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
524: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
525: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
529: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
530: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
531: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
532: </strong></font><br>
533: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
534: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
535: <p>
536: </ul>
537:
1.388 mcbride 538: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
539: <ul>
1.394 jolan 540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
542: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
543: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
544: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
547: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
548: available for sparc64.
549: <p>
550:
1.390 beck 551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 552: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
553: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
554: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
555: </strong></font><br>
556: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
557: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
558: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
559: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
560: <p>
561:
562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 563: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
564: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 565: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 566: </strong></font><br>
567: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
568: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
569: it does: CARP provides sharing
570: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
571: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
572: detail to get you started using it.
573: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
574: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
575: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
576: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
577: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
578: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
579: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 580: <p>
1.391 ian 581:
582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 583: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 584: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
585: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 586: </strong></font><br>
587: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 588: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 589: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 590: <p>
1.388 mcbride 591:
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
593: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
594: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 595: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 596: </strong></font><br>
597: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
598: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
599: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
600: unencumbered by patents.
601: <p>
602: </ul>
603:
1.378 henning 604: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
605: <ul>
1.384 jose 606:
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 608: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
609: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
610: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
611: </strong></font><br>
612: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
613: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
614: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
615: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
616: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
617: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
618: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
619: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
620: in the page tables."
621: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
622: <p>
623:
624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 625: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
626: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
627: </strong></font><br>
628: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
629: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
630: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
631: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 632: <p>
1.384 jose 633:
1.378 henning 634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 635: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
636: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 637: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
638: </strong></font><br>
639: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
640: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
641: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
642: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
643: (quote:
644: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
645: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 646: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 647: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
648: the other developers for their work on the system.
649: <p>
650:
651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 652: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
653: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
654: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 655: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 656: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
657: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
658: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
659: too.
660: <p>
661:
662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 663: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
664: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 665: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 666: OpenBSD source code using
667: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
668: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
669: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
670: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
671: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
672: <p>
673: </ul>
674:
1.374 jose 675: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
676: <ul>
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 678: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 679: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
680: </strong></font><br>
681: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
682: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
683: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
684: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
685: it."
686: <p>
687:
688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 689: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
690: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
691: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
692: </strong></font><br/>
693: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
694: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
695: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
696: <p>
697: </ul>
698:
1.369 ian 699: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
700: <ul>
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 702: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
703: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
704: </strong></font><br/>
705: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
706: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
707: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
708: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 712: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
713: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
714: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
715: </strong></font><br/>
716: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
717: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
718: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
719: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
720: form factor.
721: <p>
722:
723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
724: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
725: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
726: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
727: Features</a>,
728: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
729: </strong></font><br/>
730: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
731: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
732: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
733: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
734: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
735: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
736: <p>
737: This article can also be found online at:
738: <ul>
739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 740: <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 741: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
742: </strong></font>
743: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
744: </ul>
745: <p>
1.392 david 746:
1.371 jose 747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 748: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
749: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 750: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
751: </strong></font><br/>
752: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
753: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
754: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 755: <p>
1.371 jose 756:
757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 758: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 759: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 760: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 761: </strong></font><br/>
762: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
763: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
764: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
765: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
766: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
767: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
768: and its history with OpenBSD.
769: </ul>
770:
1.368 henning 771: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
772: <ul>
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 774: [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 775: </strong></font><br>
776: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
777: </ul>
778:
1.364 jose 779: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
780: <ul>
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 782: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
783: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
784: UNIX Review,
785: July, 2003.
786: </strong></font><br>
787: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
788: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
789: who want more information.
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 793: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
794: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
795: Government Computer News,
796: July 22, 2003.
797: </strong></font><br>
798: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
799: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
800: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
801: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
802: <p>
803:
804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
805: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
806: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
807: SANS Institute,
808: July 22, 2003.
809: </strong></font><br>
810: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 811: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 812: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
813: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
814: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
815: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
816: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
817: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
818: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
819: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
820: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
821: <p>
822:
823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 824: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
825: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
826: OnLamp.com,
827: July 17, 2003.
828: </strong></font><br>
829: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
830: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
831: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
832: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
833: have been working on.
834:
835: </ul>
836:
1.356 jose 837: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 838: <ul>
839:
840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 841: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
842: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
843: UNIX Review,
844: June, 2003.
845: </strong></font><br>
846: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
847: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
848: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
849: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 853: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
854: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
855: eWeek,
856: June 23, 2003.
857: </strong></font><br>
858: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
859: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
860: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
861: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
862: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
863: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
864: <p>
865:
866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 867: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
868: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
869: Software Development Online,
870: June, 2003.
871: </strong></font><br>
872: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
873: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
874: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
875: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
876: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
877: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
878: current activities.
879: <p>
880:
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 882: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
883: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 884: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
885: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
886: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
887: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 888: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 889: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
890: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
891: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 892: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 893: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
894: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 895: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 896: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
897: decisions.
898: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
899: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 900: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 901: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 905: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
906: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
907: Page 58, eWeek,
908: June 2, 2003.
909: </strong></font><br>
910: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
911: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
912: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
913: been addressed in -current.
914: <p>
915:
1.356 jose 916: </ul>
917:
918: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
919: <ul>
920:
1.355 jose 921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 922: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
923: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
924: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
925: </strong></font><br>
926: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
927: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
928: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
929: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
930: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
931: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
932: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 936: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
937: Beyond Linux</a>,
938: InfoWorld,
939: May 23, 2003.
940: </strong></font><br>
941: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
942: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
943: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
944: compared to the GPL.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 948: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
949: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
950: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 951: May 17, 2003.
952: </strong></font><br>
953: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
954: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
955: the business section and half of another page inside
956: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
957: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
958: in talking about the project's history and goals.
959: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
960: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
961: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
962: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 963: <br>
964: This article can also be found online at:
965: <ul>
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
967: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
968: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
969: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
970: May 17, 2003
971: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 972: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
974: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
975: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
976: Montreal Gazette,
977: May 21, 2003
978: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 979: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 980: <p>
1.346 ian 981:
982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 983: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 984: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 985: May 7, 2003.
986: </strong></font><br>
987: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
988: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
989: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
990: <p>
991:
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 993: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
994: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
995: OsOpinion,
996: May 6, 2003.
997: </strong></font><br>
998: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
999: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1000: <br>
1001: This article can also be found online at:
1002: <ul>
1003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1004: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1005: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1006: NewsFactor Network.
1007: </strong></font>
1008: </ul>
1009: <p>
1010:
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1012: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1013: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1014: ITBusiness,
1015: May 2, 2003.
1016: </strong></font><br>
1017: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1018: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1019: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1020: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1021: <p>
1022:
1023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1024: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1025: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1026: InfoWorld,
1027: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1028: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1029: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1030: <br>
1031: This article can also be found online at:
1032: <ul>
1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1034: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1035: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1036: IDG Singapore.
1037: </strong></font>
1038: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1039: <p>
1040:
1.339 jose 1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1042: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1043: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1044: ZDNet,
1045: May 1, 2003.
1046: </strong></font><br>
1047: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1048: someone using parts from previous articles.
1049: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1050: This article can also be found online at:
1051: <ul>
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1053: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1054: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1055: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1056: </strong></font>
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1058: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1059: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1060: CNET News.com.
1061: </strong></font>
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1063: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1064: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1065: ZDNet UK.
1066: </strong></font>
1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1068: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1069: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1070: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1071: </strong></font>
1072: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1073: <p>
1.339 jose 1074:
1.341 deraadt 1075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1076: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1077: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1078: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1079: May 1, 2003.
1080: </strong></font><br>
1081: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1082: that have been added
1083: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1084: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1085: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1086: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1087: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1088: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1089: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1090: <p>
1091:
1092: </ul>
1093:
1.253 ian 1094: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1095: <ul>
1.255 ian 1096:
1.260 ian 1097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1098: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1099: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1100: TechRepublic,
1101: April 28, 2003.
1102: </strong></font><br>
1103: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1104: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1105: work.<br>
1106: Can also be found online at:
1107: <ul>
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1109: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1110: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1111: ZDNet UK.
1112: </strong></font>
1113: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1117: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1118: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1119: IDG,
1120: April 24, 2003.
1121: </strong></font><br>
1122: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1123: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1124: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1125: Can also be found online at:
1126: <ul>
1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1128: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1129: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1130: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1131: </strong></font>
1132: </ul>
1133: <p>
1134:
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1136: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1137: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1138: Slate,
1139: April 24, 2003.
1140: </strong></font><br>
1141: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1142: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1143: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1144: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1145: <p>
1146:
1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1148: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1149: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1150: April 24, 2003.
1151: </strong></font><br>
1152: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1153: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1154: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1155: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1159: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1160: April 24, 2003.
1161: </strong></font><br>
1162: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1163: the free software community".
1164: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1165: other articles.
1166: <p>
1167:
1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1169: <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 1170: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1171: </strong></font><br>
1172: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1173: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1174: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1175: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1176: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1177: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1178: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1179: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1180: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1181: <br/>
1182: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1183: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1184: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1185: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1186: <br>
1187: Can also be found online at:
1188: <ul>
1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1190: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1191: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1192: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1193: </strong></font>
1194: </ul>
1.324 ian 1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1199: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1200: </strong></font><br>
1201: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1202: article above.
1203: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1204: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1205: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1206: <br>
1207: Can also be found online at:
1208: <ul>
1209: <li>
1210: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1211: </strong></font>
1212: </ul>
1.324 ian 1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1216: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1217: </strong></font><br>
1218: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1219: <p>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1222: <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.
1223: </strong></font><br>
1224: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1225: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1226: <p>
1227:
1228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1229: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1230: April 23, 2003.
1231: </strong></font><br>
1232: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1233: <p>
1234:
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1236: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1237: April 22, 2003.
1238: </strong></font><br>
1239: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1240: <p>
1241:
1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1243: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1244: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1245: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1246: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1247: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1248: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1249: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1250: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1251: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1252: Can also be found online at:
1253: <ul>
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1255: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1256: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1257: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1258: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1260: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1261: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1262: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1263: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1264: </ul>
1265: <p>
1266:
1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1268: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1269: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1270: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1271: </strong></font><br>
1272: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1273: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1274: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1275: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1276: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1277: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1278: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1282: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1283: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1284: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1285: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1286: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1287: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1288: at UPenn and DARPA.
1289: <p>
1290:
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1292: [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,
1293: France
1.315 deraadt 1294: April 18, 2003.
1295: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1296: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1297: <p>
1298:
1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1300: [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 1301: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1302: </strong></font><br>
1303: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1304: <p>
1305:
1306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1307: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1308: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1309: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1310: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1311: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1312: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1313: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1314: <p>
1315:
1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1317: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1318: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1319: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1320: </strong></font><br>
1321: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1322: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1323: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1324: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1325: <p>
1326:
1327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1328: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1329: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1330: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1331: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1332: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1333: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1334: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1335: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1336: Can also be found online at:
1337: <ul>
1338: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1339: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1340: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1341: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1342: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1346: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1347: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1348: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1349: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1350: </strong></font><br>
1351: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1352: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1353: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1354: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1355: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1356:
1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1358: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1359: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1360: New York Times.
1361: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1362:
1.273 deraadt 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1364: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1365: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1366: ABC News.
1367: </strong></font>
1368:
1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1370: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1371: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1372: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1373: </strong></font>
1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1376: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1377: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1378: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1379: </strong></font>
1380:
1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1382: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1383: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1384: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1385: </strong></font>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1388: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1389: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1390: Times Daily, AL.
1391: </strong></font>
1392:
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1394: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1395: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1396: Boston.com, MA.
1397: </strong></font>
1398:
1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1400: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1401: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1402: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1403: </strong></font>
1404:
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1406: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1407: [Article was pulled]</a>
1408: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1409: </strong></font>
1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1412: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1413: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1414: Infoshop News.
1415: </strong></font>
1416:
1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1418: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1419: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1420: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1421: </strong></font>
1422:
1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1424: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1425: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1426: Raleigh News, NC.
1427: </strong></font>
1428:
1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1430: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1431: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1432: Napa News, CA.
1433: </strong></font>
1434:
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1436: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1437: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1438: NEPA News, PA.
1439: </strong></font>
1440:
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1442: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1443: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1444: Wired News.
1445: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1446: <br>
1447: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1448: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1449: [JAPANESE]
1450: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1451: Wired News Japan</a>
1452: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1453:
1.271 deraadt 1454: </ul>
1455: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1456: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1457: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1458: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1459: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1460: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1461: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1462: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1463: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1464: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1465: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1466: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1467: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1468: <p>
1469: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1472: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1473: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1474: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1475: </strong></font>
1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1478: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1479: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1480: Miami Herald, FL.
1481: </strong></font>
1482:
1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1484: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1485: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1486: </strong></font>
1487:
1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1489: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1490: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1491: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1492: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1493:
1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1495: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1496: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1497: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1498: ABC News.
1499: </strong></font>
1500:
1.276 deraadt 1501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1502: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1503: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1504: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1505: </strong></font>
1506:
1.286 dhartmei 1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1508: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1509: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1510: Wilmington Star, NC.
1511: </strong></font>
1512:
1.300 jose 1513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1514: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1515: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1516: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1517: </strong></font>
1518:
1.309 jose 1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1520: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1521: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1522: Globe Technology.
1523: </strong></font>
1524:
1.263 deraadt 1525: </ul>
1.262 beck 1526: <p>
1527:
1528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1529: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1530: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1531: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1532: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1533: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1534: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1535: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1536: <p>
1537:
1538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1539: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1540: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1541: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1542: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1543: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1544: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1545: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1546: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1547: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1548: and simply restates other press reports.
1549: <p>
1550:
1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1552: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1553: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1554: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1555: </strong></font><br>
1556: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1557: <p>
1558:
1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1560: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1561: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1562: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1563: </strong></font><br>
1564: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1565: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1566: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1567: <p>
1568:
1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1570: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1571: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1572: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1573: April 17, 2003.
1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1576: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1577: Tech Anthems</a>
1578: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1579: 4 so far.
1580: <p>
1581:
1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1583: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1584: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1585: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1586: </strong></font><br>
1587: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1588: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1589: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1590: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1591: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1592: Goes on to say:
1593: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1594: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1595: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1596: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1597: This article is also found online at:
1598: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1600: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1601: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1602: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1603: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1605: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1606: ZDnet</a>,
1607: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1608: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1610: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1611: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1612: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1613: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1614: </ul>
1.260 ian 1615: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1616:
1.260 ian 1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1618: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1619: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1620: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1621: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1622: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1623: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1624: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1625: without notice or justification.
1626: <p>
1627:
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1629: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1630: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1631: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1632: </strong></font><br>
1633: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1634: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1635: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1636: effective today, without any warning..."
1637: <p>
1.257 ian 1638:
1639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1640: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1641: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1642: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1643: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1644: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1645: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1646: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1647: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1648: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1649: <p>
1650:
1651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1652: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1653: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1654: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1657: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1658: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1659: quoting two of them:
1660: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1661: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1662: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1663: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1664: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1665: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1666: <p>
1667:
1.255 ian 1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1669: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1670: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1671: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1672: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1673: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1674: <p>
1675:
1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1677: [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 1678: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1679: </strong></font><br>
1680: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1681: <p>
1682:
1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1684: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1685: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1686: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1687: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1688: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1689: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1690: security experts for more than three decades."
1691: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1692: <p>
1.261 ian 1693:
1.254 drahn 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1695: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1696: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1699: <p>
1700:
1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1702: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1703: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1704: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1705: </strong></font><br>
1706: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1707: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1708: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1709: <p>
1710:
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1712: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1713: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1714: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1715: </strong></font><br>
1716: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1717: from US DARPA.
1718: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1719: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1720: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1721: the BSD license.
1722: <p>
1723: </ul>
1724:
1.251 ian 1725: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1726: <ul>
1727:
1728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1729: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1730: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1731: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1732: </strong></font><br>
1733:
1734: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1735: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1736: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1737: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1741: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1742: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1743: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1746: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1747: Mentions
1748: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1749: and
1750: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1751: programs.
1752: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1753: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1754: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1755: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1756: <p>
1.325 ian 1757: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1758: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1759:
1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1761: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1762: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1763: </strong></font><br>
1764: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1765: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1766: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1767: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1768: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1769: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1770: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1771: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1772: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1773: put into service."
1774: <p>
1775: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1776: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1777: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1778: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1779: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1780: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1781: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1782: computers with security features."
1783: <p>
1.329 ian 1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1786: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1787: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1788: Slate,
1789: March 3, 2003.
1790: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1791: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1792: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1793: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1794: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1795: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1796: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1797: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1798: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1799: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1800: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1801: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1802: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1803: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1804: of more secure open-source solutions like
1805: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1806: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1807: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1808: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1809: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1810: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1811: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1812: the Beltway."
1813: <p>
1.251 ian 1814: </ul>
1815:
1.249 jufi 1816: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1817: <ul>
1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1819: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1820: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1821: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1822: </strong></font><br>
1823: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1824: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1825: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1826: <p>
1.334 ian 1827:
1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1829: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1830: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1831: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1832: </strong></font><br>
1833: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1834: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1835: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1836: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1837: "... the hypothetical question ...
1838: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1839: <br>
1840: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1841: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1842: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1843: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1844: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1845: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1846: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1847: support network security.
1848: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1849: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1850: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1851: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1852: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1853: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1854: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1855: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1856: <br>
1857: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1858: <p>
1859:
1.249 jufi 1860: </ul>
1861:
1.246 jufi 1862: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1863: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1866: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1867: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1868: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1869: </strong></font><br>
1870: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1871: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1872: <p>
1873:
1.247 jufi 1874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1875: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1876: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1877: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1878: </strong></font><br>
1879: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1880: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1881: <p>
1882:
1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1884: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1885: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1886: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1887: </strong></font><br>
1888: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1889: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1890: <p>
1.247 jufi 1891: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1892:
1.244 jufi 1893: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1894: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1895:
1.247 jufi 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1897: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1898: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1899: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1900: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1901: </strong></font><br>
1902: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1903: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1904: md5 digests.
1905: <p>
1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1908: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1909: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1910: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1911: </strong></font><br>
1912: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1913: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1914: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1915: right the first time."
1916: <p>
1.247 jufi 1917: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1918:
1919:
1920: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1921: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1922:
1.247 jufi 1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1924: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1925: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1926: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1927: </strong></font><br>
1928: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1929: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1930: part 6</a>.
1931: <p>
1932:
1.247 jufi 1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1934: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1935: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1936: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1937: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1938: </strong></font><br>
1939: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1940: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1941: <p>
1.301 jose 1942:
1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1944: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1945: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1946: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1947: </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1950: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1951: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1952: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1953: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1954: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1955: <i>Here's the
1956: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1957: <p>
1.247 jufi 1958: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1959:
1960: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1961: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1962:
1.247 jufi 1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1964: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1965: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1966: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1969: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1970: <p>
1971:
1.247 jufi 1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1973: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1974: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1975: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1976: </strong></font><br>
1977: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1978: this time using pf.
1979: <p>
1.247 jufi 1980: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1981:
1982: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1983: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1984:
1.247 jufi 1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1986: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1987: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1988: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1989: </strong></font><br>
1990: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1991: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1992: their rotation.
1993: <p>
1994:
1.247 jufi 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1996: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1997: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1998: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1999: </strong></font><br>
2000: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2001: <p>
1.247 jufi 2002: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2003:
1.239 jufi 2004: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2005: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2008: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2009: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2010: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2011: </strong></font><br>
2012: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2013: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2014: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2015: <p>
2016:
1.247 jufi 2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2018: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2019: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2020: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2021: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2022: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2023: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2024: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2025: <p>
1.247 jufi 2026: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2027:
1.235 lebel 2028: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2029: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2030:
1.239 jufi 2031:
1.247 jufi 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2033: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2034: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2035: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2036: </strong></font><br>
2037: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2038: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2039: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2040: <p>
1.301 jose 2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2043:
1.228 horacio 2044: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2045: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2046:
1.247 jufi 2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2048: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2049: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2050: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2051: </strong></font><br>
2052: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2053: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2054: <p>
2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2057: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2058: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2059: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2060: </strong></font><br>
2061: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2062: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2063: <p>
2064:
1.247 jufi 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2066: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2067: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2068: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2069: </strong></font><br>
2070: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2071: on the desktop of his parents.
2072: <p>
2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2075: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2076: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2077: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2078: </strong></font><br>
2079: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2080: using IPFilter.
2081:
2082: <p>
2083:
1.247 jufi 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2085: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2086: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2087: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2088: </strong></font><br>
2089: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2090: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2091: perspectives of the four OS.
2092: <br>
2093: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2094: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2095: <p>
2096:
1.247 jufi 2097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2098: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2099: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2100: software and security</a>,
2101: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2102: </strong></font><br>
2103:
2104: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2105: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2106: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2107: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2108: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2109: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2110: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2111: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2112: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2113: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2114: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2115: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2116: <p>
1.247 jufi 2117: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2118:
1.225 horacio 2119: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2120: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2123: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2124: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2125: Interview</a>,
2126: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2127: </strong></font><br>
2128:
2129: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2130: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2131: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2132: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2133: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2134: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2135: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2136: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2137: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2138: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2139: of choice.
2140: <p>
1.247 jufi 2141: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2142:
2143: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2144: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2145:
1.247 jufi 2146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2147: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2148: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2149: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2150: </strong></font><br>
2151:
2152: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2153: <p>
2154:
1.247 jufi 2155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2156: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2157: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2158: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2159: </strong></font><br>
2160:
2161: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2162: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2163: <p>
1.247 jufi 2164: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2165:
1.218 horacio 2166: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2167: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2168:
1.247 jufi 2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2170: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2171: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2172: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2173: </strong></font><br>
2174:
2175: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2176: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2177: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2178: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2179: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2180: subjects. Worth a read.
2181: <p>
2182:
2183:
1.247 jufi 2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2185: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2186: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2187: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2188: </strong></font><br>
2189:
2190: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2191: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2192: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2193: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2194: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2195: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2196: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2197: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2198: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2199: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2200: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2201: on other operating systems.<br>
2202: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2203: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2204: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2205: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2206: <p>
2207:
1.247 jufi 2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2209: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2210: Operating System 2010</a>,
2211: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2212: </strong></font><br>
2213:
2214: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2215: covering the level of software integration into the core
2216: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2217: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2218: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2219: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2220: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2221: <p>
2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2224: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2225: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2226: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2227: </strong></font><br>
2228:
2229: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2230: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2231: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2232: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2233: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2234: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2235: <p>
1.247 jufi 2236: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2237:
1.210 jufi 2238: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2239: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2240:
1.247 jufi 2241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2242: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2243: Already a Contender</a>,
2244: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2245: </strong></font><br>
2246:
2247: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2248: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2249: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2250: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2251: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2252: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2253: <p>
2254:
1.247 jufi 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2256: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2257: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2258: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2259: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2260:
1.224 horacio 2261: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2262: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2263: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2264: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2265: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2266: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2267: <p>
1.247 jufi 2268: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2269:
2270: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2271: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2272:
1.247 jufi 2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2274: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2275: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2276: Division</a>,
2277: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2278: </strong></font><br>
2279:
2280: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2281: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2282: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2283: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2284: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2285: investment</em>.<br>
2286: The implementation details can be seen on their
2287: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2288: <p>
2289:
1.247 jufi 2290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2291: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2292: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2293: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2294: </strong></font><br>
2295:
2296: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2297: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2298: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2299: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2300: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2301: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2302: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2303: <p>
2304:
2305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2306: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2307: Thinking about Security</a>,
2308: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2309: </strong></font><br>
2310:
2311: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2312: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2313: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2314: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2315: to time.<br>
2316: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2317: system and just the most secure system.
2318: <p>
2319:
1.247 jufi 2320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2321: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2322: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2323: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2324: </strong></font><br>
2325:
2326: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2327: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2328: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2329: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2330: choice:<br>
2331: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2332: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2333: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2334: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2335: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2336: network security devices and as such must be well
2337: armored."</em><br>
2338: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2339: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2340: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2341: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2342: <br>
2343: Bravo!
2344: <p>
1.247 jufi 2345: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2346:
1.207 ian 2347: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2348: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2349:
1.247 jufi 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2351: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2352: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2353: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2354:
1.207 ian 2355: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2356: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2357: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2358: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2359: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2360: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2361: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2362: <p>
1.247 jufi 2363: </ul>
1.207 ian 2364:
1.194 jufi 2365: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2366: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2369: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2370: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2371: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2372: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2373:
1.240 miod 2374: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2375: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2376: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2377: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2378: <p>
2379:
1.247 jufi 2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2381: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2382: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2383: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2384:
2385: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2386: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2387: <p>
2388:
2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2390: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2391: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2392: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2393:
2394: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2395: <p>
2396:
2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2398: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2399: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2400: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2401: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2402:
1.240 miod 2403: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2404: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2405: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2406: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2407: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2408: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2409: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2410: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2411: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2412: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2413: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2414: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2415: <p>
2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2418: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2419: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2420: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2421: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2422:
1.194 jufi 2423: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2424: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2425: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2426: <br>
2427: The new
2428: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2429: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2430: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2431: <p>
1.247 jufi 2432: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2433:
1.190 horacio 2434: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2435: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2436:
1.247 jufi 2437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2438:
2439: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2440: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2441:
1.301 jose 2442:
1.191 jufi 2443: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2444: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2445:
2446: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2447: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2448:
1.212 horacio 2449: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2450: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2451: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2452:
1.211 horacio 2453: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2454: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2455: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2458: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2461: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2462:
1.212 horacio 2463: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2464: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2465: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2466:
2467: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2468: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2469:
2470: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2471: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2472:
1.301 jose 2473: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2474: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2475:
1.191 jufi 2476: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2477: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2478:
2479: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2480: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2481:
1.192 jufi 2482: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2483: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2484: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2485:
1.193 deraadt 2486: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2487: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2488: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2489:
1.247 jufi 2490: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2491: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2492:
1.247 jufi 2493: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2494: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2495: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2496:
1.213 horacio 2497: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2498: 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 2499: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2500:
1.190 horacio 2501: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2502: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2503: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2504: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2505: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2506: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2507: <p>
1.190 horacio 2508:
1.247 jufi 2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2510: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2511: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2512: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2513: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2514:
1.195 jufi 2515: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2516: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2517: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2518: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2519: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2520: <p>
2521:
1.247 jufi 2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2523: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2524: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2525: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2526: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2527:
1.191 jufi 2528: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2529: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2530: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2531: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2532: <p>
2533:
2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2535: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2536: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2537: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2538:
2539: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2540: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2541: <p>
1.247 jufi 2542: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2543:
1.191 jufi 2544:
1.186 jufi 2545: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2546: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2547:
1.247 jufi 2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2549: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2550: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2551: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2552: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2553:
1.188 jufi 2554: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2555: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2556: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2557: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2558: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2559: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2560: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2561: <p>
2562:
1.301 jose 2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2564: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2565: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2566: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2569: <p>
1.191 jufi 2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2572: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2573: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2574: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2575: </strong></font><br>
2576:
2577: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2578: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2579: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2580: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2581: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2582: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2583: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2584: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2585: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2586: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2587: familiar?
2588: <p>
1.247 jufi 2589: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2590:
1.178 louis 2591: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2592: <ul>
1.178 louis 2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2595: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2596: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2597: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2598: </strong></font><br>
2599:
2600: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2601: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2602: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2603: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2604: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2605: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2606: <p>
2607:
1.247 jufi 2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2609: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2610: Open source under the hood</a>,
2611: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2612: </strong></font><br>
2613:
2614: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2615: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2616: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2617: <p>
2618:
1.247 jufi 2619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2620: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2621: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2622: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2623: </strong></font><br>
2624:
2625: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2626: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2627: <p>
1.247 jufi 2628: </ul>
1.179 louis 2629:
1.174 louis 2630:
1.175 louis 2631: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2632: <ul>
1.175 louis 2633:
1.247 jufi 2634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2635: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2636: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2637: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2638: </strong></font><br>
2639:
2640: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2641: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2642: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2643: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2644: <p>
2645:
1.247 jufi 2646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2647: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2648: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2649: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2650: </strong></font><br>
2651:
2652: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2653: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2654: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2655: <p>
1.247 jufi 2656: </ul>
1.175 louis 2657:
1.176 louis 2658:
1.172 mickey 2659: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2660: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2663: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2664: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2665: </strong></font><br>
2666:
2667: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2668: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2669: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2670: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2671: <p>
2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2674: <a
1.269 deraadt 2675: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2676: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2677: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2678: </strong></font><br>
2679:
2680: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2681: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2682: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2683: <p>
2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2686: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2687: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2688: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2689: </strong></font><br>
2690:
2691: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2692: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2693: <p>
2694:
1.247 jufi 2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2696: <a
1.269 deraadt 2697: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2698: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2699: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2700: </strong></font><br>
2701:
2702: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2703: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2704: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2705: our own Theo de Raadt.
2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2709: <a
1.269 deraadt 2710: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2711: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2712: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2713: </strong></font><br>
2714:
2715: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2716: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2717: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2718: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2719: shut down.]
2720: <p>
2721:
1.247 jufi 2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2723: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2724: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2725: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2726: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2727: </strong></font><br>
2728:
2729: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2730: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2731: <p>
1.247 jufi 2732: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2733:
1.161 louis 2734: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2735: <ul>
1.161 louis 2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2738: <a
1.269 deraadt 2739: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2740: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2741: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2742: </strong></font><br>
2743:
2744: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2745: by John Wolley
2746: <p>
2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2749: <a
1.269 deraadt 2750: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2751: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2752: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2753: </strong></font><br>
2754:
2755: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2756: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2757: OpenBSD).
2758: <p>
2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2761: <a
1.247 jufi 2762: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2763: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2764: </strong></font><br>
2765:
2766: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2767: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2768: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2769: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2770: and hindsight.
2771: <p>
2772:
1.247 jufi 2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2774: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2775: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2776: </strong></font><br>
2777:
2778: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2779: <p>
2780:
1.247 jufi 2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2782: <a
1.168 provos 2783: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2784: December 7, 2000
2785: </strong></font><br>
2786:
2787: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2788: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2789: us explain.
2790: <p>
2791:
1.247 jufi 2792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2793: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2794: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2795: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2796: December 6, 2000
2797: </strong></font><br>
2798:
2799: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2800: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2801: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2802: <p>
2803:
1.247 jufi 2804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2805: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2806: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2807: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2808: </strong></font><br>
2809:
2810: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2811: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2812: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2813: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2814: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2815: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2816: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2817: <p>
2818:
2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2820: <a
1.226 horacio 2821: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2822: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2823: </strong></font><br>
2824:
2825: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2826: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2827: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2828: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2829: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2830: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2831: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2832: <p>
1.162 millert 2833:
1.247 jufi 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2835: <a
1.161 louis 2836: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2837: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2838: </strong></font><br>
2839:
2840: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2841: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2842: <p>
2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2845: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2846: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2847: </strong></font><br>
2848:
2849: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2850: <p>
2851:
2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2854: <a
1.226 horacio 2855: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2856: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2857: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2858: </strong></font><br>
2859:
2860: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2861: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2862: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2863: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2864: <p>
1.247 jufi 2865: </ul>
1.169 louis 2866:
1.158 louis 2867: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2868: <ul>
1.147 louis 2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2871: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2872: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2873: </strong></font><br>
2874:
2875: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2876: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2877: <p>
2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2880: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2881: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2882: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2883: </strong></font><br>
2884: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2885: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2886: <p>
2887:
1.247 jufi 2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2889: <a
2890: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2891: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2892: </strong></font><br>
2893:
2894: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2895: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2896: <p>
2897:
1.247 jufi 2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2899: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2900: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2901: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2902:
1.213 horacio 2903: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2904: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2905: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2906: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2907: <p>
1.215 horacio 2908:
1.247 jufi 2909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2910: <a
2911: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2912: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2913: </strong></font><br>
2914:
2915: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2916: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2917: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2918: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2919: much of the attitude too).
2920: <p>
1.161 louis 2921:
1.247 jufi 2922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2923: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2924: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2925: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2926:
1.157 louis 2927: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2928: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2929: <p>
1.247 jufi 2930: </ul>
1.157 louis 2931:
2932: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2933: <ul>
1.157 louis 2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2936: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2937: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2938: </strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2941: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2942: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2943: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2944: <p>
2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2947: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2948: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2949: </strong></font><br>
2950:
2951: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2952: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2953: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2954: it because they love coding...
2955: <p>
2956:
1.247 jufi 2957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2958: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2959: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2960: </strong></font><br>
2961:
2962: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2963: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2964: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2965: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2966: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2967: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2968: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2969: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2970: <p>
2971:
1.247 jufi 2972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2973: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2974: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2975: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2976: </strong></font><br>
2977:
2978: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2979: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2980: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2981: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2982: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2983: the pizza.
2984: <p>
2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2987: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2988: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2989: </strong></font><br>
2990:
2991: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2992: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2993: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2994: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2995: problems.
2996: <p>
2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2999: <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 3000: </strong></font><br>
3001:
1.222 miod 3002: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3003: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3004: - whether they like it or not.
3005: <p>
3006:
1.247 jufi 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3008: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3009: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3010: </strong></font><br>
3011:
3012: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3013: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3014: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3015: <p>
1.148 aaron 3016:
1.247 jufi 3017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3018: <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 3019: </strong></font><br>
3020:
3021: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3022: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3023: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3024: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3025: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3026: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3027: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3028: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3029: <p>
3030:
1.247 jufi 3031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3032: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3033: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3034: </strong></font><br>
3035:
3036: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3037: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3038: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3039: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3040: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3041: <p>
1.247 jufi 3042: </ul>
1.147 louis 3043:
1.138 louis 3044: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3045: <ul>
1.138 louis 3046:
1.247 jufi 3047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3048: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3049: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3050: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3051: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3052: </strong></font><br>
3053:
1.227 horacio 3054: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3055: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3056: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3057: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3058: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3059: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3060: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3061: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3062: <p>
3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3065: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3066: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3067: </strong></font><br>
3068:
3069: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3070: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3071: groups, and even Linux.
3072: <p>
3073:
1.247 jufi 3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3075: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3076: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3077: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3078: </strong></font><br>
3079:
3080: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3081: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3082: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3083: library after installing the OS.
3084: <p>
3085:
1.247 jufi 3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3087: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3088: Sys Admin, September 2000
3089: </strong></font><br>
3090:
3091: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3092: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3093: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3094: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3095: (<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>,
3096: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3097: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3098: <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 3099: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3100: out of the system.
3101: <p>
3102:
1.247 jufi 3103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3104: <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
3105: </strong></font><br>
3106:
3107: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3108: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3109: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3110: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3111: the IP filtering and address translation.
3112: <p>
1.301 jose 3113:
3114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3115: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3116: </strong></font><br>
3117:
3118: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3119: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3120: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3121: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3122: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3123: <p>
1.247 jufi 3124: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3125:
1.131 louis 3126: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3127: <ul>
1.131 louis 3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3130: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3131: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3132: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3133: </strong></font><br>
3134:
3135: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3136: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3137: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3138: <p>
3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3141: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3142: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3143: </strong></font><br>
3144:
3145: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3146: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3147: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3148: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3149: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3150: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3151: note of"</i>.
3152: <p>
3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3155: <a
1.247 jufi 3156: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3157: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3158: </strong></font><br>
3159:
3160: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3161: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3162: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3163: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3164: <p>
3165:
1.247 jufi 3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3167: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3168: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3169: </strong></font><br>
3170:
3171: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3172: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3173: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3174: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3175: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3176: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3177: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3178: <p>
3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3181: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3182: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3183: 2000
3184: </strong></font><br>
3185:
3186: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3187: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3188: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3189: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3190: against current industry practices.
3191: <p>
3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3194: <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
3195: </strong></font><br>
3196:
3197: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3198: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3199: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3200: <p>
3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3203: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3204: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3205: </strong></font><br>
3206:
3207: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3208: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3209: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3210: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3211: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3212: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3213: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3214: <p>
3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3217: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3218: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3219: </strong></font><br>
3220:
3221: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3222: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3223: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3224: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3225: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3226: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3227: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3228: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3229: <p>
1.247 jufi 3230: </ul>
1.131 louis 3231:
1.118 louis 3232: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3233: <ul>
1.118 louis 3234:
1.247 jufi 3235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3236: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3237: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3241: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3242: about time. The article mentions that
3243: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3244: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3245: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3246: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3247: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3248: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3249: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3250: <p>
3251:
1.247 jufi 3252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3253: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3254: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3255: </strong></font><br>
3256:
3257: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3258: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3259: of OpenSSH.
3260: <p>
3261:
1.247 jufi 3262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3263: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3264: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3265: </strong></font><br>
3266:
3267: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3268: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3269: bridging.
3270: <p>
3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3273: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3274: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3275: </strong></font><br>
3276:
1.121 deraadt 3277: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3278: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3279: <p>
3280:
1.247 jufi 3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3282: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3283: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3284: </strong></font><br>
3285:
3286: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3287: <p>
3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3290: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3291: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3292: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3293: </strong></font><br>
3294:
1.120 deraadt 3295: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3296: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3297: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3298: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3299: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3300: <p>
3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3303: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3304: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3305: </strong></font><br>
3306:
1.222 miod 3307: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3308: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3309: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3310: protocols and their quirks.
3311: <p>
3312:
1.247 jufi 3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3314: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3315: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3316: </strong></font><br>
3317:
3318: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3319: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3320: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3321: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3322: <p>
3323:
1.247 jufi 3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3325: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3326: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3327: </strong></font><br>
3328:
3329: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3330: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3331: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3332: <p>
3333:
1.247 jufi 3334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3335: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3336: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3337: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3338: </strong></font><br>
3339:
3340: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3341: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3342: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3343: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3344: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3345: <p>
1.247 jufi 3346: </ul>
1.118 louis 3347:
1.104 louis 3348: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3349: <ul>
1.104 louis 3350:
1.247 jufi 3351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3352: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3353: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3354: </strong></font><br>
3355:
3356: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3357: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3358: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3359: be a bit dry.
3360: <p>
3361:
1.247 jufi 3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3363: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3364: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3365: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3366: </strong></font><br>
3367: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3368: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3369: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3370: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3371: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3372: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3373: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3374: <p>
3375:
1.247 jufi 3376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3377: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3378: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3379: 2000
1.128 louis 3380: </strong></font><br>
3381:
3382: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3383: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3384: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3385: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3386: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3387: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3388: <p>
3389:
1.247 jufi 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3391: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3392: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3393: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3394:
3395: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3396: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3397: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3398: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3399: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3400: <p>
1.110 louis 3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3403: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3404: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3405: </strong></font><br>
3406:
3407: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3408: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3409: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3410: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3411: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3412: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3413: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3414: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3415: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3416: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3417: <p>
3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3420: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3421: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3422:
3423: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3424: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3425: <p>
1.108 louis 3426:
1.247 jufi 3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3428: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3429: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3430: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3431:
3432: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3433: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3434: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3435: <p>
1.106 louis 3436:
1.247 jufi 3437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3438: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3439: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3440: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3441:
3442: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3443: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3444: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3445: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3446: <p>
1.107 louis 3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3449: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3450: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3451: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3452:
3453: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3454: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3455: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3456: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3457: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3458: <p>
1.105 louis 3459:
1.247 jufi 3460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3461: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3462: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3463: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3464:
1.113 naddy 3465: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3466: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3467: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3468: <p>
1.104 louis 3469:
1.247 jufi 3470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3471: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3472: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3473: </strong></font><br>
3474:
3475: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3476: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3477: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3478: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3479: <p>
1.301 jose 3480:
3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3482: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3483: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3484: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3487: hardware-supported cryptography.
3488: <p>
1.247 jufi 3489: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3490:
1.85 louis 3491: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3492: <ul>
1.85 louis 3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3495: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3496: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3497: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3498:
3499: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3500: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3501: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3502: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3503: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3504: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3505: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3506: <p>
1.99 louis 3507:
1.247 jufi 3508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3509: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3510: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3511: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3512:
3513: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3514: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3515: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3516: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3517: <p>
1.100 louis 3518:
1.247 jufi 3519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3520: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3521: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3522: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3523:
3524: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3525: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3526: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3527: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3528: <p>
1.95 louis 3529:
1.247 jufi 3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3531: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3532: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3533: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3534:
3535: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3536: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3537: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3538: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3539: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3540: <p>
1.92 louis 3541:
1.247 jufi 3542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3543: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3544: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3545: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3546:
3547: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3548: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3549: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3550: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3551: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3552: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3553: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3554: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3555: <p>
1.91 louis 3556:
1.247 jufi 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3558: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3559: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3560: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3561:
3562: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3563: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3564: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3565: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3566: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3567: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3568: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3569: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3570: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3571: <p>
1.90 louis 3572:
1.247 jufi 3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3574: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3575: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3576: </strong></font><br>
3577: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3578: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3579: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3580: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3581: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3582: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3583: <p>
3584:
1.247 jufi 3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3586: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3587: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3588: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3589:
1.113 naddy 3590: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3591: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3592: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3593: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3594: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3595: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3596: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3597: <p>
1.87 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3600: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3601: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3602: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3603:
3604: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3605: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3606: <p>
1.85 louis 3607:
1.247 jufi 3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3609: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3610: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3611: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3612:
3613: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3614: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3615: <p>
3616:
3617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3618: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3619: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3620: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3621:
3622: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3623: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3624: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3625: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3626: <p>
1.89 louis 3627:
1.247 jufi 3628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3629: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3630: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3631: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3632:
3633: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3634: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3635: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3636: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3637: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3638: </ul>
1.85 louis 3639:
1.78 deraadt 3640: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3641: <ul>
1.74 louis 3642:
1.247 jufi 3643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3644: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3645: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3646: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3647: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3648:
3649: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3650: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3651: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3652: <p>
1.83 louis 3653:
1.247 jufi 3654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3655: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3656: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3657: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3658:
3659: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3660: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3661: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3662: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3663: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3664: <p>
1.93 louis 3665:
1.247 jufi 3666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3667: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3668: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3669: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3670: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3671:
1.83 louis 3672: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3673: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3674: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3675: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3676: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3677: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3678: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3679: <p>
1.82 aaron 3680:
1.247 jufi 3681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3682: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3683: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3684: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3685:
1.83 louis 3686: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3687: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3688: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3689: <p>
1.80 louis 3690:
1.247 jufi 3691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3692: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3693: Bad Press</a>,
3694: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3695: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3696:
3697: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3698: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3699: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3700: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3701: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3702: <p>
1.247 jufi 3703: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3704:
3705: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3706: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3707:
1.247 jufi 3708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3709: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3710: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3711: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3712: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3713:
3714: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3715: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3716: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3717: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3718: <p>
1.74 louis 3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3721: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3722: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3723: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3724:
1.219 horacio 3725: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3726: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3727: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3728: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3729: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3730: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3731: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3732: <p>
1.88 louis 3733:
1.247 jufi 3734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3735: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3736: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3737: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3738:
3739: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3740: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3741: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3742: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3743: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3744: <p>
1.81 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3747: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3748: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3749: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3750:
3751: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3752: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3753: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3754: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3755: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3756: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3757: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3758: <p>
1.90 louis 3759:
1.247 jufi 3760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3761: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3762: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3763: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3764:
3765: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3766: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3767: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3768: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3769: <p>
1.247 jufi 3770: </ul>
1.71 louis 3771:
1.69 deraadt 3772: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3773: <ul>
1.70 louis 3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3776: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3777: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3778: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3779:
3780: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3781: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3782: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3783: <p>
1.70 louis 3784:
1.247 jufi 3785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3786: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3787: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3788: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3789:
3790: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3791: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3792: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3793: <p>
1.68 louis 3794:
1.247 jufi 3795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3796: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3797: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3798: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3799: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3800:
1.111 jufi 3801: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3802: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3803: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3804: "secure by default" installation.
3805: <p>
1.64 louis 3806:
1.247 jufi 3807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3808: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3809: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3810: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3811:
1.113 naddy 3812: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3813: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3814: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3815: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3816: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3817: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3818: <p>
1.66 louis 3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3821: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3822: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3823: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3824:
3825: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3826: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3827: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3828: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3829: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3830: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3831: <p>
1.83 louis 3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3834: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3835: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3836: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3837:
3838: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3839: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3840: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3841: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3842: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3843: <p>
1.64 louis 3844:
1.247 jufi 3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3846: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3847: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3848: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3849:
3850: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3851: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3852: <p>
1.301 jose 3853:
3854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3855: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3856: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3857: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3858: </strong></font><br>
3859:
3860: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3861: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3862: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3863: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3864: Giving way to
3865: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3866: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3867: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3868: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3869: <p>
1.247 jufi 3870: </ul>
1.65 louis 3871:
1.69 deraadt 3872: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3873: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3874:
1.247 jufi 3875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3876: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3877: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3878: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3879:
3880: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3881: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3882: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3883: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3884: <p>
1.88 louis 3885:
1.247 jufi 3886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3887: <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 3888: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3889:
3890: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3891: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3892: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3893: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3894: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3895: <p>
1.60 louis 3896:
1.247 jufi 3897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3898: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3899: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3900: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3901: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3902:
3903: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3904: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3905: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3906: <p>
1.58 louis 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3909: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3910: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3911:
3912: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3913: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3914: <p>
1.53 louis 3915:
1.247 jufi 3916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3917: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3918: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3919: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3920:
3921: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3922: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3923: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3924: <p>
1.99 louis 3925:
1.247 jufi 3926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3927: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3928: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3929:
3930: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3931: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3932: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3933: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3934: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3935:
1.247 jufi 3936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3937: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3938: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3939: </strong></font><br>
3940:
3941: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3942: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3943: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3944: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3945: <p>
3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3948: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3949: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3950: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3951:
3952: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3953: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3954: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3957: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3958: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3959:
3960: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3961: in
1.247 jufi 3962: <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 3963: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3964: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3965: <p>
1.53 louis 3966:
1.247 jufi 3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3968: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3969: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3970: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3971: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3972:
1.58 louis 3973: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3974: <p>
1.301 jose 3975:
3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3977: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3978: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3979: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3980: Informacyjny, January 2000
3981: </strong></font><br>
3982:
3983: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3984: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3985: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3986: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3987: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3988: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3989: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3990: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3991: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3992: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3993: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3994: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3995: <p>
3996:
3997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3998: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3999: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4000: </strong></font><br>
4001:
4002: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4003: <p>
4004: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4005:
1.69 deraadt 4006: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4007: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4008:
1.247 jufi 4009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4010: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4011: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4012: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4013: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4014:
1.58 louis 4015: Kurt Seifried
4016: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4017: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4018: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4019: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4020:
1.247 jufi 4021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4022: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4023: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4024: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4025:
4026: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4027: <p>
1.96 louis 4028:
1.247 jufi 4029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4030: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4031: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4032: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4033: </strong></font><br>
4034:
4035: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4036: <p>
4037:
4038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4039: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4040: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4041: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4042:
4043: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4044: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4045: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4046: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4047: <p>
1.247 jufi 4048: </ul>
1.86 louis 4049:
1.69 deraadt 4050: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4051: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4052:
1.247 jufi 4053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4054: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4055: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4056: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4057:
4058: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4059: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4060: <p>
1.61 louis 4061:
1.247 jufi 4062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4063: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4064: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4065: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4066: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4067:
4068: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4069: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4070: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4071: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4072: right -- or at least strives to".
4073: <p>
1.48 louis 4074:
1.247 jufi 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4076: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4077: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4078: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4079: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4080: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4081: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4082: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4083: <p>
1.61 louis 4084:
1.247 jufi 4085: <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 4086: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4087: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4088:
4089: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4090: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4091: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4092: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4093: <p>
1.46 louis 4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4096: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4097: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4098: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4099:
4100: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4101: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4102: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4105: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4106: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4107: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4108:
4109: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4110: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4111: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4112: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4113: <p>
1.247 jufi 4114: </ul>
1.70 louis 4115:
1.69 deraadt 4116: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4117: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4118:
1.247 jufi 4119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4120: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4121: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4122: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4123: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4124:
4125: Kurt Seifried
4126: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4127: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4128: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4129: <p>
1.44 philen 4130:
1.247 jufi 4131: <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 4132: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4133: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4134:
4135: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4136: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: <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 4139: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4140: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4141:
4142: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4143: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4144:
1.247 jufi 4145: <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 4146: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4147: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4148:
4149: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4150: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4151: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4152: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4153: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <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 4156: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4157: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4158:
1.36 louis 4159: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4160: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4161:
1.247 jufi 4162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4163: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4164: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4165: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4166:
4167: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4168: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4169: </ul>
1.38 louis 4170:
1.69 deraadt 4171: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4172: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <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 4175: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4176: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4177:
4178: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4179: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4180: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4181:
1.113 naddy 4182: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4183: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4184: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4185: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4186:
4187: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4188: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4189: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4190: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4191: <blockquote>
4192: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4193: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4194: <br>
4195: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4196: </code>
4197: </blockquote>
4198: <p>
4199:
1.247 jufi 4200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4201: <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 4202: <p>
4203:
4204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4205: <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 4206: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4207:
4208: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4209: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4210: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4211: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4212:
1.247 jufi 4213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4214: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4215: Sept. 28, 1999
4216: </strong></font><br>
4217:
4218: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4219: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4220: translating and reprinting articles from
4221: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4222: <p>
4223:
4224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4225: <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 4226: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4227:
4228: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4229: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4230: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4231: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4232: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4233: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4234: <p>
1.19 louis 4235:
1.113 naddy 4236: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4237: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4238: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4239:
4240: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4241: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4242: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4243: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4244: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4245: <p>
1.16 louis 4246:
1.247 jufi 4247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4248: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4249: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4250: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4251:
1.57 louis 4252: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4253: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4254: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4255: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4256:
1.247 jufi 4257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4258: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4259: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4260: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4261:
1.113 naddy 4262: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4263:
1.247 jufi 4264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4265: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4266: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4267: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4268:
1.23 louis 4269: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4270: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4271: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4272: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4273: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4274: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4275:
1.247 jufi 4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4277: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4278: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4279: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4280:
1.199 pvalchev 4281: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4282: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4283: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4284: installation.
1.113 naddy 4285: <p>
1.47 louis 4286:
1.247 jufi 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4288: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4289: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4290: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4291:
1.301 jose 4292: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4293: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4294: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4295: </ul>
1.57 louis 4296:
1.69 deraadt 4297: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4298: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4299:
1.247 jufi 4300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4301: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4302: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4303: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4304:
4305: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4306: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4307: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4308: <p>
1.12 louis 4309:
1.247 jufi 4310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4311: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4312: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4313: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4314:
4315: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4316: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4317: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4318: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4319: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4320: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4321: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4322: <p>
1.247 jufi 4323: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4324:
1.69 deraadt 4325: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4326: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4327:
1.247 jufi 4328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4329: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4330: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4331:
4332: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4333: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4334: available."
1.113 naddy 4335: <p>
1.301 jose 4336:
4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4338: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4339: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4340: </strong></font><br>
4341:
4342: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4343: <p>
1.247 jufi 4344: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4345:
1.69 deraadt 4346: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4347: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4350: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4351: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4352:
4353: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4354: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4355: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4356: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4357: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4358: <p>
1.33 louis 4359:
1.247 jufi 4360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4361: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4362: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4363: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4364:
1.113 naddy 4365: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4366: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4367: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4368: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4369: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4370: <p>
1.247 jufi 4371: </ul>
1.57 louis 4372:
1.69 deraadt 4373: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4374: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4375:
1.247 jufi 4376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4377: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4378: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4379: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4380:
4381: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4382: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4383: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4384:
1.247 jufi 4385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4386: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4387: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4388: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4389: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4390:
4391: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4392: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4395: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4396:
1.113 naddy 4397: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4398:
1.247 jufi 4399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4400: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4401: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4402: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4403:
4404: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4405: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4406: </ul>
1.23 louis 4407:
1.69 deraadt 4408: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4409: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4410:
1.247 jufi 4411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4412: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4413: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4414:
4415: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4416: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4417: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4418:
1.247 jufi 4419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4420: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4421: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4422: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4423:
4424: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4425: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4426: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4427: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4428: </ul>
1.57 louis 4429:
1.69 deraadt 4430: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4431: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4434: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4435: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4436: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4437:
4438: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4439: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4440: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4441: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4442: <p>
1.15 louis 4443:
1.247 jufi 4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4445: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4446: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4447: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4448:
4449: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4450: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4451: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4452: columns."
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.247 jufi 4454: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4455:
1.69 deraadt 4456: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4457: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4458:
1.247 jufi 4459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4460: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4461: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4462: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4463:
4464: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4465: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4466:
1.113 naddy 4467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4468: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4469: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4470:
4471: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4472: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4473: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4474: </ul>
1.57 louis 4475:
1.69 deraadt 4476: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4477: <ul>
1.301 jose 4478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4479: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4480: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4481: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4482:
4483: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4484: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4485: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4486: <p>
4487:
4488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4489: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4490: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4491: Nov 13, 1998 and
4492: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4493: Datateknik</a>,
4494: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4495:
1.380 saad 4496: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4497: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4498: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4499: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4500: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4501:
1.113 naddy 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4503: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4504: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4506:
1.222 miod 4507: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4508: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4509: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4510: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4511: <p>
1.247 jufi 4512: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4513:
1.69 deraadt 4514: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4515: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4516:
1.247 jufi 4517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4518: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4519: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4520:
1.69 deraadt 4521: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4522: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4523: <p>
1.247 jufi 4524: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4525:
1.69 deraadt 4526: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4527: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4528:
1.247 jufi 4529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4530: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4531: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4532: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4533:
1.383 jcs 4534: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4535: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4536: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4539: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4540: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4541: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4542: <p>
1.247 jufi 4543: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4544:
1.69 deraadt 4545: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4546: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4547:
1.247 jufi 4548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4549: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4550: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4551: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4552: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4553: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4554:
4555: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4556: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4557: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4558: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4559: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4560: <p>
1.247 jufi 4561: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4562:
4563: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4564: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4565:
1.247 jufi 4566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4567: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4568: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4569:
1.69 deraadt 4570: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4571: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4572: <p>
1.112 naddy 4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4575: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4576:
1.292 camield 4577: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4578: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4579: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.431 ! ian 4580: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.430 2005/03/01 13:40:06 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4581:
4582: </body>
4583: </html>
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