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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...
1.432 ian 28: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 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:
1.427 matthieu 53: </ul>
54:
1.426 ian 55: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
56: <ul>
57:
58: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
59: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
60: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
61: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
62: This article talks about our systrace
63: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
64: mechanism: what it is and why and
65: how to use it, with examples.
66: Another excerpt from the book
67: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
68: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
72: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
73: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
74: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
75: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
76: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
77: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
78: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
79: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
80: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
81: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
82: This article is a sample chapter from
83: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
84: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
85: <p>
86: </ul>
87:
1.424 ian 88: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
89: <ul>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 92: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
93: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
94: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
95: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
96: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
97: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
98: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
99: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
100: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
101: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
102: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
103: <p>
104: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
105: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
106: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 110: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
111: Closed Source Hardware</a>
112: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
113: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
114: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
115: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
116: operating systems.
117: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
118: OpenBSD on his firewall.
119: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
120: systems, he writes:
121: <blockquote>
122: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
123: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
124: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
125: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
126: to the operating system...
127: <br/>
128: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
129: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
130: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
131: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
132: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
133: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
134: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
135: in a closed source operating system).
136: <br/>
137: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
138: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
139: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
140: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
141: </blockquote>
142: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
143: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
144: their hardware and software operates.
145: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
146: reverse-engineering the
147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
148: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
149: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
150: <p>
151: </ul>
152:
1.417 pvalchev 153: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
154: <ul>
1.421 ian 155:
1.417 pvalchev 156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 157: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
158: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
159: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
160: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
161: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
162: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
163: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
164: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
165: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
166: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
167: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 168: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 169: <p>
170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 171: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
172: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
173: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
174: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
175: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
176: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
177: it claims to do".
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 181: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
182: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
183: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
184: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
185: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 186: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 187: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
188: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
189: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
190: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
191: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
192: (yes, this is a hint).
193: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
194: picked up on the
195: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
196: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
197: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
198: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
199: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 203: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
204: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
205: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
206: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
207: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
208: questions about the significance and rationale behind
209: the current efforts.
210: <p>
211: </ul>
212:
1.407 henning 213: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
214: <ul>
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 216: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
217: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
218: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
219: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
220: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
221: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
222: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
223: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 227: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
228: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
229: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
230: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
231: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
232: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
233: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
234: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
235: of the important changes in 3.6.
236: </p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 239: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
240: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
241: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
242: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
243: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
244: overflow attacks... because
245: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
246: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
247: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
248: and propolice.
249: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
250: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
251: and that's when the science falls apart."
252: <p>
253:
254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 255: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
256: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
257: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
258: Starts with the question:
259: <blockquote>
260: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
261: <br/>
262: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
263: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
264: <br/>
265: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
266: Should we believe them?"
267: </blockquote>
268: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
269: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
270: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
271: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
272: for your mail, web and other online activities.
273: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 277: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
278: Simple Simon</a>,
279: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
280: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
281: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
282: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
283: routing/firewall, and more.
284: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
285: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
286: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
287: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
288: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
289: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
290: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
291: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
292: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
293: </blockquote>
294: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
295: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
296: <p>
297:
298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 299: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
300: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 301: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 302: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 303: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
304: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
305: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 306: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 307: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
308: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
309: in spite of it
310: (registration required, but worth it).
311: <p>
312:
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
315: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
316: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
317: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
318: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
319: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
320: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 321: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 322: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
323: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
324: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
325: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 329: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
330: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
331: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
332: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
333: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
334: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
335: <blockquote>
336: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
337: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
338: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
339: a lot of analysis.
340: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
341: </blockquote>
342: <p>
343: </ul>
344:
1.400 marco 345: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
346: <ul>
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 348: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
349: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
350: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
351: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
352: UNIX-like systems.
353: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
354: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
355: <p>
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 357: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
358: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 359: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
360: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
361: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
362: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
363: At one point, the article states:
364: <blockquote>
365: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
366: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
367: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
368: </blockquote>
369: And then quotes Theo as saying:
370: <blockquote>
371: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
372: fewer are reading or auditing code."
373: </blockquote>
374: <p>
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
376: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
377: marks its fifth birthday</a>
378: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
379: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
380: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
381: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
382: required).
383: <p>
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 385: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
386: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
387: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
388: </strong></font><br>
389: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
390: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
391: <p>
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 393: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
394: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 395: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 396: </strong></font><br>
397: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
398: <p>
399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 400: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
401: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 402: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 403: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 404: 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 405: <p>
406: </ul>
407:
1.396 henning 408: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
409: <ul>
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 411: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
412: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
413: Unix Review, July, 2004
414: </strong></font><br>
415: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
416: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
417: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
418: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
419: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
420: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
421: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
422: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
423: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
424: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
425: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
426: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
427: and even spelling/wording errors.
428: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
429: <p>
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 431: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 432: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
433: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
434: </strong></font><br>
435: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
436: <p>
437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 438: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 439: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
440: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
441: </strong></font><br>
442: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
443: <p>
444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 445: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
446: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
447: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
448: </strong></font><br>
449: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
450: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
451: <p>
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 453: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
454: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
455: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
456: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
457: <p>
458: </ul>
459:
1.405 jolan 460: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
461: <ul>
462: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
463: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
464: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
465: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
466: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
467: details on how funds are dispersed.
468: <p>
469: </ul>
470:
1.393 david 471: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
472: <ul>
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 474: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
475: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
476: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
477: </strong></font><br>
478: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
479: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
480: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
481: on inserting large number of SQL records.
482: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
483: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
484: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
485: <p>
486:
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 488: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
489: Secure by Default</a>,
490: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
491: </strong></font><br>
492: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
493: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
497: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
498: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
499: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
500: </strong></font><br>
501: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
502: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
503: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
504: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
505: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
506: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
507: <p>
508:
509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
510: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
511: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
512: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
513: </strong></font><br>
514: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
515: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
516: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
517: <p>
518:
519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
520: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
521: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
522: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
523: </strong></font><br>
524: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
525: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
526: <p>
527: </ul>
528:
1.388 mcbride 529: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
530: <ul>
1.394 jolan 531:
532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
533: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
534: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
535: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
536: </strong></font><br>
537: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
538: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
539: available for sparc64.
540: <p>
541:
1.390 beck 542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 543: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
544: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
545: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
546: </strong></font><br>
547: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
548: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
549: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
550: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
551: <p>
552:
553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 554: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
555: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 556: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 557: </strong></font><br>
558: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
559: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
560: it does: CARP provides sharing
561: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
562: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
563: detail to get you started using it.
564: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
565: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
566: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
567: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
568: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
569: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
570: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 571: <p>
1.391 ian 572:
573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 574: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 575: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
576: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 577: </strong></font><br>
578: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 579: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 580: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 581: <p>
1.388 mcbride 582:
583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
584: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
585: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 586: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 587: </strong></font><br>
588: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
589: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
590: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
591: unencumbered by patents.
592: <p>
593: </ul>
594:
1.378 henning 595: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
596: <ul>
1.384 jose 597:
598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 599: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
600: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
601: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
602: </strong></font><br>
603: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
604: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
605: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
606: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
607: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
608: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
609: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
610: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
611: in the page tables."
612: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 616: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
617: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
618: </strong></font><br>
619: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
620: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
621: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
622: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 623: <p>
1.384 jose 624:
1.378 henning 625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 626: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
627: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 628: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
631: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
632: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
633: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
634: (quote:
635: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
636: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 637: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 638: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
639: the other developers for their work on the system.
640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 643: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
644: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
645: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 646: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 647: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
648: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
649: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
650: too.
651: <p>
652:
653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 654: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
655: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 656: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 657: OpenBSD source code using
658: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
659: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
660: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
661: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
662: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
663: <p>
664: </ul>
665:
1.374 jose 666: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
667: <ul>
668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 669: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 670: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
671: </strong></font><br>
672: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
673: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
674: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
675: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
676: it."
677: <p>
678:
679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 680: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
681: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
682: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
683: </strong></font><br/>
684: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
685: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
686: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
687: <p>
688: </ul>
689:
1.369 ian 690: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
691: <ul>
692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 693: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
694: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
695: </strong></font><br/>
696: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
697: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
698: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
699: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 703: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
704: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
705: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
706: </strong></font><br/>
707: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
708: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
709: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
710: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
711: form factor.
712: <p>
713:
714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
715: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
716: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
717: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
718: Features</a>,
719: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
720: </strong></font><br/>
721: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
722: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
723: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
724: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
725: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
726: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
727: <p>
728: This article can also be found online at:
729: <ul>
730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 731: <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 732: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
733: </strong></font>
734: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
735: </ul>
736: <p>
1.392 david 737:
1.371 jose 738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 739: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
740: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 741: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
742: </strong></font><br/>
743: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
744: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
745: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 746: <p>
1.371 jose 747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 749: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 750: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 751: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 752: </strong></font><br/>
753: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
754: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
755: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
756: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
757: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
758: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
759: and its history with OpenBSD.
760: </ul>
761:
1.368 henning 762: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
763: <ul>
764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 765: [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 766: </strong></font><br>
767: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
768: </ul>
769:
1.364 jose 770: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
771: <ul>
772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 773: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
774: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
775: UNIX Review,
776: July, 2003.
777: </strong></font><br>
778: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
779: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
780: who want more information.
781: <p>
782:
783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 784: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
785: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
786: Government Computer News,
787: July 22, 2003.
788: </strong></font><br>
789: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
790: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
791: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
792: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
793: <p>
794:
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
796: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
797: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
798: SANS Institute,
799: July 22, 2003.
800: </strong></font><br>
801: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 802: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 803: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
804: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
805: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
806: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
807: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
808: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
809: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
810: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
811: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 815: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
816: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
817: OnLamp.com,
818: July 17, 2003.
819: </strong></font><br>
820: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
821: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
822: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
823: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
824: have been working on.
825:
826: </ul>
827:
1.356 jose 828: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 829: <ul>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 832: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
833: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
834: UNIX Review,
835: June, 2003.
836: </strong></font><br>
837: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
838: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
839: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
840: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 844: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
845: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
846: eWeek,
847: June 23, 2003.
848: </strong></font><br>
849: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
850: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
851: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
852: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
853: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
854: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 858: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
859: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
860: Software Development Online,
861: June, 2003.
862: </strong></font><br>
863: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
864: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
865: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
866: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
867: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
868: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
869: current activities.
870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 873: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
874: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 875: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
876: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
877: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
878: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 879: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 880: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
881: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
882: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 883: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 884: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
885: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 886: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 887: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
888: decisions.
889: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
890: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 891: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 892: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 893: <p>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 896: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
897: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
898: Page 58, eWeek,
899: June 2, 2003.
900: </strong></font><br>
901: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
902: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
903: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
904: been addressed in -current.
905: <p>
906:
1.356 jose 907: </ul>
908:
909: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
910: <ul>
911:
1.355 jose 912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 913: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
914: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
915: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
916: </strong></font><br>
917: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
918: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
919: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
920: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
921: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
922: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
923: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
924: <p>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 927: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
928: Beyond Linux</a>,
929: InfoWorld,
930: May 23, 2003.
931: </strong></font><br>
932: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
933: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
934: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
935: compared to the GPL.
936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 939: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
940: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
941: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 942: May 17, 2003.
943: </strong></font><br>
944: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
945: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
946: the business section and half of another page inside
947: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
948: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
949: in talking about the project's history and goals.
950: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
951: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
952: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
953: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 954: <br>
955: This article can also be found online at:
956: <ul>
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
958: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
959: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
960: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
961: May 17, 2003
962: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 963: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
965: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
966: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
967: Montreal Gazette,
968: May 21, 2003
969: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 970: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 971: <p>
1.346 ian 972:
973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 974: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 975: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 976: May 7, 2003.
977: </strong></font><br>
978: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
979: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
980: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
981: <p>
982:
983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 984: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
985: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
986: OsOpinion,
987: May 6, 2003.
988: </strong></font><br>
989: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
990: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
991: <br>
992: This article can also be found online at:
993: <ul>
994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
995: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
996: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
997: NewsFactor Network.
998: </strong></font>
999: </ul>
1000: <p>
1001:
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1003: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1004: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1005: ITBusiness,
1006: May 2, 2003.
1007: </strong></font><br>
1008: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1009: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1010: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1011: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1012: <p>
1013:
1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1015: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1016: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1017: InfoWorld,
1018: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1019: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1020: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1021: <br>
1022: This article can also be found online at:
1023: <ul>
1024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1025: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1026: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1027: IDG Singapore.
1028: </strong></font>
1029: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1030: <p>
1031:
1.339 jose 1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1033: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1034: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1035: ZDNet,
1036: May 1, 2003.
1037: </strong></font><br>
1038: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1039: someone using parts from previous articles.
1040: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1041: This article can also be found online at:
1042: <ul>
1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1044: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1045: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1046: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1047: </strong></font>
1048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1049: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1050: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1051: CNET News.com.
1052: </strong></font>
1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1054: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1055: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1056: ZDNet UK.
1057: </strong></font>
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1059: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1060: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1061: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1062: </strong></font>
1063: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1064: <p>
1.339 jose 1065:
1.341 deraadt 1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1067: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1068: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1069: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1070: May 1, 2003.
1071: </strong></font><br>
1072: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1073: that have been added
1074: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1075: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1076: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1077: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1078: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1079: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1080: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1081: <p>
1082:
1083: </ul>
1084:
1.253 ian 1085: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1086: <ul>
1.255 ian 1087:
1.260 ian 1088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1089: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1090: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1091: TechRepublic,
1092: April 28, 2003.
1093: </strong></font><br>
1094: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1095: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1096: work.<br>
1097: Can also be found online at:
1098: <ul>
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1100: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1101: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1102: ZDNet UK.
1103: </strong></font>
1104: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1108: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1109: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1110: IDG,
1111: April 24, 2003.
1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1114: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1115: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1116: Can also be found online at:
1117: <ul>
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1119: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1120: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1121: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1122: </strong></font>
1123: </ul>
1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1127: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1128: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1129: Slate,
1130: April 24, 2003.
1131: </strong></font><br>
1132: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1133: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1134: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1135: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1136: <p>
1137:
1138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1139: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1140: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1141: April 24, 2003.
1142: </strong></font><br>
1143: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1144: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1145: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1146: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1147: <p>
1148:
1149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1150: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1151: April 24, 2003.
1152: </strong></font><br>
1153: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1154: the free software community".
1155: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1156: other articles.
1157: <p>
1158:
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1160: <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 1161: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1162: </strong></font><br>
1163: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1164: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1165: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1166: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1167: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1168: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1169: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1170: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1171: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1172: <br/>
1173: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1174: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1175: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1176: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1177: <br>
1178: Can also be found online at:
1179: <ul>
1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1181: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1182: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1183: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1184: </strong></font>
1185: </ul>
1.324 ian 1186: <p>
1187:
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1189: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1190: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1191: </strong></font><br>
1192: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1193: article above.
1194: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1195: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1196: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1197: <br>
1198: Can also be found online at:
1199: <ul>
1200: <li>
1201: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1202: </strong></font>
1203: </ul>
1.324 ian 1204: <p>
1205:
1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1207: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1208: </strong></font><br>
1209: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1210: <p>
1211:
1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1213: <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.
1214: </strong></font><br>
1215: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1216: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1217: <p>
1218:
1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1220: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1221: April 23, 2003.
1222: </strong></font><br>
1223: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1224: <p>
1225:
1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1227: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1228: April 22, 2003.
1229: </strong></font><br>
1230: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1231: <p>
1232:
1233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1234: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1235: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1236: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1237: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1238: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1239: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1240: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1241: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1242: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1243: Can also be found online at:
1244: <ul>
1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1246: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1247: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1248: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1249: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1251: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1252: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1253: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1254: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1255: </ul>
1256: <p>
1257:
1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1259: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1260: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1261: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1262: </strong></font><br>
1263: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1264: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1265: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1266: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1267: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1268: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1269: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1270: <p>
1271:
1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1273: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1274: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1275: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1276: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1277: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1278: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1279: at UPenn and DARPA.
1280: <p>
1281:
1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1283: [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,
1284: France
1.315 deraadt 1285: April 18, 2003.
1286: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1287: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1288: <p>
1289:
1290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1291: [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 1292: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1293: </strong></font><br>
1294: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1295: <p>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1298: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1299: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1300: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1301: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1302: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1303: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1304: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1305: <p>
1306:
1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1308: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1309: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1310: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1311: </strong></font><br>
1312: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1313: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1314: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1315: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1316: <p>
1317:
1318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1319: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1320: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1321: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1322: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1323: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1324: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1325: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1326: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1327: Can also be found online at:
1328: <ul>
1329: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1330: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1331: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1332: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1333: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1334: <p>
1335:
1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1337: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1338: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1339: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1340: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1341: </strong></font><br>
1342: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1343: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1344: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1345: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1346: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1347:
1348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1349: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1350: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1351: New York Times.
1352: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1353:
1.273 deraadt 1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1355: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1356: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1357: ABC News.
1358: </strong></font>
1359:
1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1361: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1362: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1363: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1364: </strong></font>
1365:
1366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1367: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1368: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1369: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1370: </strong></font>
1371:
1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1373: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1374: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1375: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1376: </strong></font>
1377:
1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1379: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1380: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1381: Times Daily, AL.
1382: </strong></font>
1383:
1384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1385: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1386: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1387: Boston.com, MA.
1388: </strong></font>
1389:
1390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1391: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1392: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1393: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1394: </strong></font>
1395:
1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1397: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1398: [Article was pulled]</a>
1399: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1400: </strong></font>
1401:
1402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1403: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1404: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1405: Infoshop News.
1406: </strong></font>
1407:
1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1409: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1410: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1411: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1412: </strong></font>
1413:
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1415: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1416: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1417: Raleigh News, NC.
1418: </strong></font>
1419:
1420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1421: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1422: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1423: Napa News, CA.
1424: </strong></font>
1425:
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1427: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1428: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1429: NEPA News, PA.
1430: </strong></font>
1431:
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1433: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1434: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1435: Wired News.
1436: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1437: <br>
1438: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1439: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1440: [JAPANESE]
1441: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1442: Wired News Japan</a>
1443: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1444:
1.271 deraadt 1445: </ul>
1446: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1447: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1448: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1449: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1450: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1451: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1452: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1453: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1454: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1455: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1456: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1457: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1458: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1459: <p>
1460: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1461:
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1463: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1464: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1465: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1466: </strong></font>
1467:
1468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1469: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1470: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1471: Miami Herald, FL.
1472: </strong></font>
1473:
1474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1475: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1476: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1477: </strong></font>
1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1480: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1481: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1482: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1483: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1484:
1485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1486: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1487: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1488: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1489: ABC News.
1490: </strong></font>
1491:
1.276 deraadt 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1493: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1494: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1495: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1496: </strong></font>
1497:
1.286 dhartmei 1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1499: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1500: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1501: Wilmington Star, NC.
1502: </strong></font>
1503:
1.300 jose 1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1505: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1506: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1507: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1508: </strong></font>
1509:
1.309 jose 1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1511: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1512: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1513: Globe Technology.
1514: </strong></font>
1515:
1.263 deraadt 1516: </ul>
1.262 beck 1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1520: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1521: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1522: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1523: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1524: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1525: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1526: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1527: <p>
1528:
1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1530: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1531: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1532: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1533: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1534: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1535: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1536: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1537: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1538: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1539: and simply restates other press reports.
1540: <p>
1541:
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1543: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1544: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1545: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1546: </strong></font><br>
1547: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1551: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1552: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1553: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1554: </strong></font><br>
1555: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1556: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1557: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1558: <p>
1559:
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1561: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1562: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1563: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1564: April 17, 2003.
1565: </strong></font><br>
1566: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1567: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1568: Tech Anthems</a>
1569: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1570: 4 so far.
1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1574: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1575: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1576: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1577: </strong></font><br>
1578: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1579: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1580: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1581: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1582: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1583: Goes on to say:
1584: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1585: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1586: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1587: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1588: This article is also found online at:
1589: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1591: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1592: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1593: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1594: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1596: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1597: ZDnet</a>,
1598: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1599: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1601: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1602: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1603: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1604: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1605: </ul>
1.260 ian 1606: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1607:
1.260 ian 1608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1609: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1610: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1611: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1612: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1613: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1614: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1615: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1616: without notice or justification.
1617: <p>
1618:
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1620: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1621: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1622: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1623: </strong></font><br>
1624: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1625: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1626: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1627: effective today, without any warning..."
1628: <p>
1.257 ian 1629:
1630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1631: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1632: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1633: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1634: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1635: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1636: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1637: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1638: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1639: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1640: <p>
1641:
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1643: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1644: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1645: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1646: </strong></font><br>
1647: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1648: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1649: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1650: quoting two of them:
1651: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1652: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1653: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1654: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1655: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1656: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1657: <p>
1658:
1.255 ian 1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1660: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1661: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1662: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1663: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1664: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1665: <p>
1666:
1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1668: [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 1669: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1670: </strong></font><br>
1671: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1672: <p>
1673:
1674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1675: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1676: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1677: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1678: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1679: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1680: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1681: security experts for more than three decades."
1682: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1683: <p>
1.261 ian 1684:
1.254 drahn 1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1686: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1687: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1688: </strong></font><br>
1689: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1690: <p>
1691:
1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1693: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1694: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1695: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1696: </strong></font><br>
1697: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1698: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1699: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1700: <p>
1701:
1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1703: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1704: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1705: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1706: </strong></font><br>
1707: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1708: from US DARPA.
1709: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1710: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1711: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1712: the BSD license.
1713: <p>
1714: </ul>
1715:
1.251 ian 1716: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1717: <ul>
1718:
1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1720: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1721: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1722: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1723: </strong></font><br>
1724:
1725: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1726: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1727: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1728: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1729: <p>
1730:
1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1732: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1733: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1734: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1735: </strong></font><br>
1736: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1737: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1738: Mentions
1739: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1740: and
1741: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1742: programs.
1743: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1744: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1745: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1746: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1747: <p>
1.325 ian 1748: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1749: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1750:
1751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1752: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1753: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1754: </strong></font><br>
1755: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1756: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1757: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1758: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1759: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1760: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1761: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1762: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1763: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1764: put into service."
1765: <p>
1766: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1767: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1768: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1769: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1770: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1771: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1772: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1773: computers with security features."
1774: <p>
1.329 ian 1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1777: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1778: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1779: Slate,
1780: March 3, 2003.
1781: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1782: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1783: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1784: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1785: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1786: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1787: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1788: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1789: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1790: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1791: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1792: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1793: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1794: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1795: of more secure open-source solutions like
1796: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1797: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1798: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1799: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1800: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1801: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1802: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1803: the Beltway."
1804: <p>
1.251 ian 1805: </ul>
1806:
1.249 jufi 1807: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1808: <ul>
1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1810: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1811: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1812: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1813: </strong></font><br>
1814: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1815: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1816: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1817: <p>
1.334 ian 1818:
1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1820: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1821: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1822: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1823: </strong></font><br>
1824: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1825: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1826: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1827: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1828: "... the hypothetical question ...
1829: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1830: <br>
1831: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1832: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1833: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1834: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1835: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1836: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1837: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1838: support network security.
1839: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1840: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1841: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1842: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1843: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1844: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1845: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1846: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1847: <br>
1848: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1849: <p>
1850:
1.249 jufi 1851: </ul>
1852:
1.246 jufi 1853: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1854: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1855:
1.247 jufi 1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1857: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1858: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1859: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1860: </strong></font><br>
1861: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1862: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1863: <p>
1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1866: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1867: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1868: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1869: </strong></font><br>
1870: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1871: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1872: <p>
1873:
1874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1875: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1876: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1877: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1878: </strong></font><br>
1879: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1880: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1881: <p>
1.247 jufi 1882: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1883:
1.244 jufi 1884: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1885: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1886:
1.247 jufi 1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1888: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1889: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1890: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1891: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1892: </strong></font><br>
1893: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1894: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1895: md5 digests.
1896: <p>
1897:
1.247 jufi 1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1899: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1900: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1901: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1902: </strong></font><br>
1903: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1904: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1905: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1906: right the first time."
1907: <p>
1.247 jufi 1908: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1909:
1910:
1911: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1912: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1913:
1.247 jufi 1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1915: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1916: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1917: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1918: </strong></font><br>
1919: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1920: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1921: part 6</a>.
1922: <p>
1923:
1.247 jufi 1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1925: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1926: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1927: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1928: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1929: </strong></font><br>
1930: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1931: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1932: <p>
1.301 jose 1933:
1934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1935: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1936: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1937: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1938: </strong></font><br>
1939:
1940: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1941: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1942: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1943: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1944: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1945: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1946: <i>Here's the
1947: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1948: <p>
1.247 jufi 1949: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1950:
1951: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1952: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1953:
1.247 jufi 1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1955: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1956: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1957: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1958: </strong></font><br>
1959: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1960: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1961: <p>
1962:
1.247 jufi 1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1964: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1965: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1966: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1969: this time using pf.
1970: <p>
1.247 jufi 1971: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1972:
1973: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1974: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1977: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1978: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1979: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1980: </strong></font><br>
1981: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1982: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1983: their rotation.
1984: <p>
1985:
1.247 jufi 1986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1987: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1988: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1989: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1990: </strong></font><br>
1991: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1992: <p>
1.247 jufi 1993: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1994:
1.239 jufi 1995: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1996: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1997:
1.247 jufi 1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1999: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2000: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2001: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2002: </strong></font><br>
2003: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2004: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2005: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2006: <p>
2007:
1.247 jufi 2008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2009: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2010: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2011: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2012: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2013: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2014: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2015: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2016: <p>
1.247 jufi 2017: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2018:
1.235 lebel 2019: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2020: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2021:
1.239 jufi 2022:
1.247 jufi 2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2024: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2025: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2026: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2027: </strong></font><br>
2028: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2029: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2030: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2031: <p>
1.301 jose 2032:
1.247 jufi 2033: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2034:
1.228 horacio 2035: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2036: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2037:
1.247 jufi 2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2039: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2040: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2041: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2042: </strong></font><br>
2043: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2044: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2045: <p>
2046:
1.247 jufi 2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2048: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2049: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2050: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2051: </strong></font><br>
2052: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2053: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2054: <p>
2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2057: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2058: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2059: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2060: </strong></font><br>
2061: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2062: on the desktop of his parents.
2063: <p>
2064:
1.247 jufi 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2066: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2067: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2068: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2069: </strong></font><br>
2070: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2071: using IPFilter.
2072:
2073: <p>
2074:
1.247 jufi 2075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2076: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2077: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2078: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2079: </strong></font><br>
2080: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2081: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2082: perspectives of the four OS.
2083: <br>
2084: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2085: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2086: <p>
2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2089: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2090: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2091: software and security</a>,
2092: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2093: </strong></font><br>
2094:
2095: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2096: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2097: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2098: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2099: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2100: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2101: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2102: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2103: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2104: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2105: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2106: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2107: <p>
1.247 jufi 2108: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2109:
1.225 horacio 2110: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2111: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2112:
1.247 jufi 2113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2114: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2115: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2116: Interview</a>,
2117: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2118: </strong></font><br>
2119:
2120: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2121: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2122: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2123: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2124: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2125: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2126: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2127: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2128: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2129: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2130: of choice.
2131: <p>
1.247 jufi 2132: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2133:
2134: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2135: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2136:
1.247 jufi 2137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2138: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2139: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2140: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2141: </strong></font><br>
2142:
2143: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2144: <p>
2145:
1.247 jufi 2146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2147: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2148: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2149: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2150: </strong></font><br>
2151:
2152: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2153: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2154: <p>
1.247 jufi 2155: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2156:
1.218 horacio 2157: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2158: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2159:
1.247 jufi 2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2161: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2162: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2163: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2164: </strong></font><br>
2165:
2166: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2167: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2168: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2169: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2170: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2171: subjects. Worth a read.
2172: <p>
2173:
2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2176: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2177: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2178: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2179: </strong></font><br>
2180:
2181: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2182: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2183: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2184: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2185: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2186: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2187: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2188: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2189: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2190: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2191: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2192: on other operating systems.<br>
2193: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2194: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2195: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2196: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2197: <p>
2198:
1.247 jufi 2199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2200: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2201: Operating System 2010</a>,
2202: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2203: </strong></font><br>
2204:
2205: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2206: covering the level of software integration into the core
2207: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2208: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2209: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2210: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2211: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2212: <p>
2213:
1.247 jufi 2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2215: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2216: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2217: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2218: </strong></font><br>
2219:
2220: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2221: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2222: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2223: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2224: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2225: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2226: <p>
1.247 jufi 2227: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2228:
1.210 jufi 2229: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2230: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2231:
1.247 jufi 2232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2233: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2234: Already a Contender</a>,
2235: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2236: </strong></font><br>
2237:
2238: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2239: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2240: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2241: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2242: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2243: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2244: <p>
2245:
1.247 jufi 2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2247: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2248: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2249: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2250: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2251:
1.224 horacio 2252: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2253: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2254: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2255: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2256: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2257: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2258: <p>
1.247 jufi 2259: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2260:
2261: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2262: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2263:
1.247 jufi 2264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2265: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2266: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2267: Division</a>,
2268: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2269: </strong></font><br>
2270:
2271: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2272: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2273: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2274: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2275: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2276: investment</em>.<br>
2277: The implementation details can be seen on their
2278: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2279: <p>
2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2282: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2283: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2284: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2285: </strong></font><br>
2286:
2287: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2288: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2289: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2290: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2291: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2292: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2293: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2294: <p>
2295:
2296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2297: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2298: Thinking about Security</a>,
2299: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2300: </strong></font><br>
2301:
2302: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2303: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2304: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2305: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2306: to time.<br>
2307: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2308: system and just the most secure system.
2309: <p>
2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2312: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2313: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2314: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2315: </strong></font><br>
2316:
2317: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2318: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2319: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2320: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2321: choice:<br>
2322: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2323: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2324: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2325: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2326: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2327: network security devices and as such must be well
2328: armored."</em><br>
2329: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2330: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2331: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2332: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2333: <br>
2334: Bravo!
2335: <p>
1.247 jufi 2336: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2337:
1.207 ian 2338: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2339: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2342: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2343: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2344: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2345:
1.207 ian 2346: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2347: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2348: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2349: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2350: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2351: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2352: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2353: <p>
1.247 jufi 2354: </ul>
1.207 ian 2355:
1.194 jufi 2356: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2357: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2358:
1.247 jufi 2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2360: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2361: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2362: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2363: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2364:
1.240 miod 2365: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2366: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2367: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2368: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2369: <p>
2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2372: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2373: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2374: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2375:
2376: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2377: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2378: <p>
2379:
2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2381: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2382: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2383: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2384:
2385: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2386: <p>
2387:
2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2389: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2390: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2391: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2392: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2393:
1.240 miod 2394: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2395: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2396: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2397: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2398: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2399: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2400: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2401: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2402: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2403: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2404: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2405: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2406: <p>
2407:
1.247 jufi 2408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2409: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2410: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2411: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2412: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2413:
1.194 jufi 2414: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2415: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2416: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2417: <br>
2418: The new
2419: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2420: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2421: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2422: <p>
1.247 jufi 2423: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2424:
1.190 horacio 2425: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2426: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2429:
2430: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2431: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2432:
1.301 jose 2433:
1.191 jufi 2434: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2435: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2436:
2437: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2438: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2439:
1.212 horacio 2440: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2441: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2442: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2443:
1.211 horacio 2444: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2445: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2446: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2449: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2450:
1.247 jufi 2451: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2452: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2453:
1.212 horacio 2454: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2455: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2456: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2457:
2458: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2459: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2460:
2461: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2462: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2463:
1.301 jose 2464: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2465: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2466:
1.191 jufi 2467: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2468: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2469:
2470: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2471: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2472:
1.192 jufi 2473: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2474: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2475: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2476:
1.193 deraadt 2477: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2478: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2479: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2482: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2483:
1.247 jufi 2484: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2485: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2486: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2487:
1.213 horacio 2488: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2489: 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 2490: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2491:
1.190 horacio 2492: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2493: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2494: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2495: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2496: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2497: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2498: <p>
1.190 horacio 2499:
1.247 jufi 2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2501: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2502: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2503: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2504: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2505:
1.195 jufi 2506: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2507: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2508: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2509: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2510: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2511: <p>
2512:
1.247 jufi 2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2514: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2515: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2516: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2517: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2518:
1.191 jufi 2519: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2520: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2521: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2522: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2523: <p>
2524:
2525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2526: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2527: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2528: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2529:
2530: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2531: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2532: <p>
1.247 jufi 2533: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2534:
1.191 jufi 2535:
1.186 jufi 2536: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2537: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2538:
1.247 jufi 2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2540: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2541: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2542: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2543: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2544:
1.188 jufi 2545: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2546: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2547: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2548: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2549: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2550: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2551: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2552: <p>
2553:
1.301 jose 2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2555: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2556: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2557: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2558:
2559: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2560: <p>
1.191 jufi 2561:
1.247 jufi 2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2563: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2564: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2565: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2566: </strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2569: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2570: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2571: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2572: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2573: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2574: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2575: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2576: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2577: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2578: familiar?
2579: <p>
1.247 jufi 2580: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2581:
1.178 louis 2582: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2583: <ul>
1.178 louis 2584:
1.247 jufi 2585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2586: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2587: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2588: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2589: </strong></font><br>
2590:
2591: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2592: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2593: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2594: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2595: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2596: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2597: <p>
2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2600: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2601: Open source under the hood</a>,
2602: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2603: </strong></font><br>
2604:
2605: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2606: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2607: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2608: <p>
2609:
1.247 jufi 2610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2611: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2612: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2613: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2614: </strong></font><br>
2615:
2616: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2617: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2618: <p>
1.247 jufi 2619: </ul>
1.179 louis 2620:
1.174 louis 2621:
1.175 louis 2622: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2623: <ul>
1.175 louis 2624:
1.247 jufi 2625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2626: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2627: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2628: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2629: </strong></font><br>
2630:
2631: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2632: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2633: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2634: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2635: <p>
2636:
1.247 jufi 2637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2638: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2639: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2640: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2641: </strong></font><br>
2642:
2643: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2644: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2645: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2646: <p>
1.247 jufi 2647: </ul>
1.175 louis 2648:
1.176 louis 2649:
1.172 mickey 2650: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2651: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2654: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2655: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2656: </strong></font><br>
2657:
2658: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2659: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2660: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2661: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2662: <p>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2665: <a
1.269 deraadt 2666: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2667: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2668: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2669: </strong></font><br>
2670:
2671: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2672: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2673: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2674: <p>
2675:
1.247 jufi 2676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2677: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2678: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2679: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2680: </strong></font><br>
2681:
2682: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2683: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2684: <p>
2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2687: <a
1.269 deraadt 2688: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2689: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2690: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2691: </strong></font><br>
2692:
2693: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2694: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2695: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2696: our own Theo de Raadt.
2697: <p>
2698:
1.247 jufi 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2700: <a
1.269 deraadt 2701: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2702: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2703: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2707: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2708: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2709: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2710: shut down.]
2711: <p>
2712:
1.247 jufi 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2714: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2715: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2716: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2717: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2718: </strong></font><br>
2719:
2720: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2721: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2722: <p>
1.247 jufi 2723: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2724:
1.161 louis 2725: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2726: <ul>
1.161 louis 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2729: <a
1.269 deraadt 2730: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2731: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2732: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2733: </strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2736: by John Wolley
2737: <p>
2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2740: <a
1.269 deraadt 2741: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2742: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2743: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745:
2746: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2747: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2748: OpenBSD).
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2752: <a
1.247 jufi 2753: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2754: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2755: </strong></font><br>
2756:
2757: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2758: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2759: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2760: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2761: and hindsight.
2762: <p>
2763:
1.247 jufi 2764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2765: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2766: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2767: </strong></font><br>
2768:
2769: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2770: <p>
2771:
1.247 jufi 2772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2773: <a
1.168 provos 2774: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2775: December 7, 2000
2776: </strong></font><br>
2777:
2778: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2779: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2780: us explain.
2781: <p>
2782:
1.247 jufi 2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2784: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2785: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2786: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2787: December 6, 2000
2788: </strong></font><br>
2789:
2790: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2791: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2792: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2793: <p>
2794:
1.247 jufi 2795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2796: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2797: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2798: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2799: </strong></font><br>
2800:
2801: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2802: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2803: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2804: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2805: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2806: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2807: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2808: <p>
2809:
2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2811: <a
1.226 horacio 2812: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2813: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2814: </strong></font><br>
2815:
2816: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2817: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2818: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2819: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2820: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2821: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2822: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2823: <p>
1.162 millert 2824:
1.247 jufi 2825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2826: <a
1.161 louis 2827: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2828: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2829: </strong></font><br>
2830:
2831: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2832: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2833: <p>
2834:
1.247 jufi 2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2836: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2837: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2838: </strong></font><br>
2839:
2840: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2841: <p>
2842:
2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2845: <a
1.226 horacio 2846: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2847: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2848: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2849: </strong></font><br>
2850:
2851: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2852: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2853: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2854: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2855: <p>
1.247 jufi 2856: </ul>
1.169 louis 2857:
1.158 louis 2858: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2859: <ul>
1.147 louis 2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2862: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2863: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2864: </strong></font><br>
2865:
2866: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2867: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2868: <p>
2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2871: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2872: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2873: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2874: </strong></font><br>
2875: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2876: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2877: <p>
2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2880: <a
2881: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2882: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2883: </strong></font><br>
2884:
2885: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2886: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2887: <p>
2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2890: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2891: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2892: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2893:
1.213 horacio 2894: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2895: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2896: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2897: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2898: <p>
1.215 horacio 2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2901: <a
2902: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2903: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2904: </strong></font><br>
2905:
2906: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2907: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2908: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2909: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2910: much of the attitude too).
2911: <p>
1.161 louis 2912:
1.247 jufi 2913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2914: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2915: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2916: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2917:
1.157 louis 2918: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2919: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2920: <p>
1.247 jufi 2921: </ul>
1.157 louis 2922:
2923: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2924: <ul>
1.157 louis 2925:
1.247 jufi 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2927: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2928: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2929: </strong></font><br>
2930:
2931: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2932: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2933: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2934: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2935: <p>
2936:
1.247 jufi 2937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2938: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2939: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2940: </strong></font><br>
2941:
2942: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2943: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2944: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2945: it because they love coding...
2946: <p>
2947:
1.247 jufi 2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2949: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2950: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2951: </strong></font><br>
2952:
2953: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2954: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2955: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2956: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2957: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2958: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2959: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2960: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2961: <p>
2962:
1.247 jufi 2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2964: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2965: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2966: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2967: </strong></font><br>
2968:
2969: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2970: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2971: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2972: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2973: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2974: the pizza.
2975: <p>
2976:
1.247 jufi 2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2978: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2979: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2980: </strong></font><br>
2981:
2982: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2983: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2984: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2985: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2986: problems.
2987: <p>
2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2990: <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 2991: </strong></font><br>
2992:
1.222 miod 2993: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2994: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2995: - whether they like it or not.
2996: <p>
2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2999: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3000: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3001: </strong></font><br>
3002:
3003: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3004: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3005: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3006: <p>
1.148 aaron 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3009: <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 3010: </strong></font><br>
3011:
3012: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3013: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3014: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3015: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3016: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3017: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3018: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3019: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3020: <p>
3021:
1.247 jufi 3022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3023: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3024: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3025: </strong></font><br>
3026:
3027: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3028: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3029: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3030: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3031: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3032: <p>
1.247 jufi 3033: </ul>
1.147 louis 3034:
1.138 louis 3035: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3036: <ul>
1.138 louis 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3039: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3040: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3041: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3042: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3043: </strong></font><br>
3044:
1.227 horacio 3045: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3046: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3047: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3048: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3049: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3050: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3051: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3052: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3053: <p>
3054:
1.247 jufi 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3056: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3057: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3058: </strong></font><br>
3059:
3060: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3061: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3062: groups, and even Linux.
3063: <p>
3064:
1.247 jufi 3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3066: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3067: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3068: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3069: </strong></font><br>
3070:
3071: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3072: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3073: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3074: library after installing the OS.
3075: <p>
3076:
1.247 jufi 3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3078: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3079: Sys Admin, September 2000
3080: </strong></font><br>
3081:
3082: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3083: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3084: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3085: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3086: (<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>,
3087: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3088: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3089: <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 3090: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3091: out of the system.
3092: <p>
3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3095: <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
3096: </strong></font><br>
3097:
3098: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3099: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3100: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3101: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3102: the IP filtering and address translation.
3103: <p>
1.301 jose 3104:
3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3106: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3107: </strong></font><br>
3108:
3109: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3110: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3111: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3112: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3113: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3114: <p>
1.247 jufi 3115: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3116:
1.131 louis 3117: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3118: <ul>
1.131 louis 3119:
1.247 jufi 3120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3121: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3122: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3123: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3124: </strong></font><br>
3125:
3126: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3127: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3128: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3129: <p>
3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3132: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3133: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3134: </strong></font><br>
3135:
3136: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3137: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3138: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3139: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3140: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3141: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3142: note of"</i>.
3143: <p>
3144:
1.247 jufi 3145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3146: <a
1.247 jufi 3147: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3148: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3149: </strong></font><br>
3150:
3151: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3152: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3153: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3154: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3155: <p>
3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3158: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3159: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3160: </strong></font><br>
3161:
3162: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3163: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3164: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3165: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3166: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3167: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3168: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3169: <p>
3170:
1.247 jufi 3171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3172: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3173: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3174: 2000
3175: </strong></font><br>
3176:
3177: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3178: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3179: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3180: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3181: against current industry practices.
3182: <p>
3183:
1.247 jufi 3184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3185: <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
3186: </strong></font><br>
3187:
3188: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3189: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3190: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3191: <p>
3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3194: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3195: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3196: </strong></font><br>
3197:
3198: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3199: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3200: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3201: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3202: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3203: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3204: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3205: <p>
3206:
1.247 jufi 3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3208: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3209: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3210: </strong></font><br>
3211:
3212: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3213: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3214: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3215: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3216: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3217: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3218: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3219: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3220: <p>
1.247 jufi 3221: </ul>
1.131 louis 3222:
1.118 louis 3223: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3224: <ul>
1.118 louis 3225:
1.247 jufi 3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3227: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3228: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3229: </strong></font><br>
3230:
3231: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3232: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3233: about time. The article mentions that
3234: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3235: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3236: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3237: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3238: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3239: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3240: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3241: <p>
3242:
1.247 jufi 3243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3244: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3245: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3246: </strong></font><br>
3247:
3248: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3249: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3250: of OpenSSH.
3251: <p>
3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3254: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3255: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3256: </strong></font><br>
3257:
3258: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3259: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3260: bridging.
3261: <p>
3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3264: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3265: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3266: </strong></font><br>
3267:
1.121 deraadt 3268: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3269: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3270: <p>
3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3273: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3274: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3275: </strong></font><br>
3276:
3277: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3278: <p>
3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3281: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3282: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3283: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3284: </strong></font><br>
3285:
1.120 deraadt 3286: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3287: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3288: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3289: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3290: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3291: <p>
3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3294: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3295: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3296: </strong></font><br>
3297:
1.222 miod 3298: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3299: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3300: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3301: protocols and their quirks.
3302: <p>
3303:
1.247 jufi 3304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3305: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3306: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3307: </strong></font><br>
3308:
3309: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3310: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3311: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3312: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3313: <p>
3314:
1.247 jufi 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3316: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3317: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3318: </strong></font><br>
3319:
3320: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3321: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3322: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3323: <p>
3324:
1.247 jufi 3325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3326: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3327: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3328: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3329: </strong></font><br>
3330:
3331: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3332: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3333: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3334: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3335: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3336: <p>
1.247 jufi 3337: </ul>
1.118 louis 3338:
1.104 louis 3339: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3340: <ul>
1.104 louis 3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3343: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3344: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3345: </strong></font><br>
3346:
3347: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3348: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3349: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3350: be a bit dry.
3351: <p>
3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3354: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3355: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3356: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3357: </strong></font><br>
3358: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3359: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3360: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3361: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3362: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3363: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3364: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3365: <p>
3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3368: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3369: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3370: 2000
1.128 louis 3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
3373: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3374: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3375: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3376: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3377: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3378: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3379: <p>
3380:
1.247 jufi 3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3382: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3383: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3384: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3385:
3386: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3387: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3388: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3389: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3390: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3391: <p>
1.110 louis 3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3394: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3395: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3396: </strong></font><br>
3397:
3398: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3399: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3400: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3401: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3402: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3403: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3404: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3405: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3406: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3407: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3408: <p>
3409:
1.247 jufi 3410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3411: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3412: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3413:
3414: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3415: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3416: <p>
1.108 louis 3417:
1.247 jufi 3418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3419: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3420: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3421: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3422:
3423: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3424: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3425: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3426: <p>
1.106 louis 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3429: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3430: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3431: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3432:
3433: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3434: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3435: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3436: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3437: <p>
1.107 louis 3438:
1.247 jufi 3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3440: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3441: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3442: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3443:
3444: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3445: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3446: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3447: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3448: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3449: <p>
1.105 louis 3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3452: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3453: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3454: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3455:
1.113 naddy 3456: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3457: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3458: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3459: <p>
1.104 louis 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3462: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3463: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3464: </strong></font><br>
3465:
3466: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3467: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3468: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3469: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3470: <p>
1.301 jose 3471:
3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3473: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3474: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3475: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3476:
3477: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3478: hardware-supported cryptography.
3479: <p>
1.247 jufi 3480: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3481:
1.85 louis 3482: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3483: <ul>
1.85 louis 3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3486: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3487: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3488: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3489:
3490: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3491: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3492: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3493: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3494: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3495: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3496: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3497: <p>
1.99 louis 3498:
1.247 jufi 3499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3500: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3501: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3502: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3503:
3504: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3505: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3506: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3507: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3508: <p>
1.100 louis 3509:
1.247 jufi 3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3511: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3512: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3513: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3514:
3515: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3516: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3517: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3518: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3519: <p>
1.95 louis 3520:
1.247 jufi 3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3522: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3523: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3524: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3525:
3526: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3527: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3528: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3529: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3530: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3531: <p>
1.92 louis 3532:
1.247 jufi 3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3534: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3535: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3536: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3537:
3538: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3539: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3540: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3541: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3542: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3543: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3544: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3545: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3546: <p>
1.91 louis 3547:
1.247 jufi 3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3549: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3550: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3551: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3552:
3553: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3554: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3555: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3556: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3557: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3558: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3559: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3560: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3561: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3562: <p>
1.90 louis 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3565: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3566: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3567: </strong></font><br>
3568: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3569: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3570: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3571: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3572: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3573: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3574: <p>
3575:
1.247 jufi 3576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3577: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3578: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3579: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3580:
1.113 naddy 3581: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3582: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3583: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3584: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3585: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3586: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3587: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3588: <p>
1.87 louis 3589:
1.247 jufi 3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3591: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3592: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3593: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3594:
3595: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3596: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3597: <p>
1.85 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3600: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3601: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3602: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3603:
3604: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3605: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3606: <p>
3607:
3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3609: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3610: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3611: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3612:
3613: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3614: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3615: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3616: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3617: <p>
1.89 louis 3618:
1.247 jufi 3619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3620: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3621: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3622: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3623:
3624: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3625: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3626: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3627: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3628: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3629: </ul>
1.85 louis 3630:
1.78 deraadt 3631: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3632: <ul>
1.74 louis 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3635: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3636: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3637: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3638: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3639:
3640: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3641: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3642: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3643: <p>
1.83 louis 3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3646: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3647: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3648: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3649:
3650: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3651: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3652: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3653: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3654: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3655: <p>
1.93 louis 3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3658: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3659: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3660: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3661: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3662:
1.83 louis 3663: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3664: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3665: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3666: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3667: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3668: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3669: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3670: <p>
1.82 aaron 3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3673: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3674: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3675: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3676:
1.83 louis 3677: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3678: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3679: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3680: <p>
1.80 louis 3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3683: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3684: Bad Press</a>,
3685: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3686: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3687:
3688: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3689: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3690: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3691: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3692: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3693: <p>
1.247 jufi 3694: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3695:
3696: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3697: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3698:
1.247 jufi 3699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3700: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3701: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3702: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3703: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3704:
3705: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3706: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3707: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3708: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3709: <p>
1.74 louis 3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3712: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3713: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3714: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3715:
1.219 horacio 3716: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3717: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3718: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3719: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3720: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3721: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3722: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3723: <p>
1.88 louis 3724:
1.247 jufi 3725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3726: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3727: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3728: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3729:
3730: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3731: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3732: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3733: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3734: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3735: <p>
1.81 louis 3736:
1.247 jufi 3737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3738: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3739: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3740: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3741:
3742: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3743: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3744: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3745: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3746: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3747: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3748: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3749: <p>
1.90 louis 3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3752: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3753: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3754: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3755:
3756: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3757: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3758: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3759: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3760: <p>
1.247 jufi 3761: </ul>
1.71 louis 3762:
1.69 deraadt 3763: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3764: <ul>
1.70 louis 3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3767: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3768: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3769: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3770:
3771: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3772: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3773: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3774: <p>
1.70 louis 3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3777: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3778: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3779: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3780:
3781: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3782: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3783: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3784: <p>
1.68 louis 3785:
1.247 jufi 3786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3787: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3788: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3789: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3790: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3791:
1.111 jufi 3792: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3793: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3794: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3795: "secure by default" installation.
3796: <p>
1.64 louis 3797:
1.247 jufi 3798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3799: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3800: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3801: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3802:
1.113 naddy 3803: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3804: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3805: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3806: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3807: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3808: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3809: <p>
1.66 louis 3810:
1.247 jufi 3811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3812: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3813: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3814: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3815:
3816: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3817: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3818: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3819: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3820: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3821: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3822: <p>
1.83 louis 3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3825: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3826: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3827: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3828:
3829: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3830: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3831: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3832: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3833: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3834: <p>
1.64 louis 3835:
1.247 jufi 3836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3837: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3838: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3839: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3840:
3841: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3842: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3843: <p>
1.301 jose 3844:
3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3846: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3847: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3848: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3849: </strong></font><br>
3850:
3851: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3852: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3853: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3854: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3855: Giving way to
3856: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3857: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3858: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3859: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3860: <p>
1.247 jufi 3861: </ul>
1.65 louis 3862:
1.69 deraadt 3863: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3864: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3865:
1.247 jufi 3866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3867: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3868: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3869: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3870:
3871: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3872: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3873: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3874: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3875: <p>
1.88 louis 3876:
1.247 jufi 3877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3878: <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 3879: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3880:
3881: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3882: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3883: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3884: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3885: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3886: <p>
1.60 louis 3887:
1.247 jufi 3888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3889: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3890: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3891: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3892: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3893:
3894: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3895: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3896: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3897: <p>
1.58 louis 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3900: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3901: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3902:
3903: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3904: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3905: <p>
1.53 louis 3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3908: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3909: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3910: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3911:
3912: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3913: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3914: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3915: <p>
1.99 louis 3916:
1.247 jufi 3917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3918: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3919: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3920:
3921: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3922: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3923: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3924: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3925: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3926:
1.247 jufi 3927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3928: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3929: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3930: </strong></font><br>
3931:
3932: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3933: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3934: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3935: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3936: <p>
3937:
1.247 jufi 3938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3939: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3940: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3941: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3942:
3943: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3944: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3945: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3948: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3949: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3950:
3951: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3952: in
1.247 jufi 3953: <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 3954: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3955: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3956: <p>
1.53 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3959: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3960: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3961: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3962: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3963:
1.58 louis 3964: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3965: <p>
1.301 jose 3966:
3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3968: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3969: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3970: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3971: Informacyjny, January 2000
3972: </strong></font><br>
3973:
3974: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3975: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3976: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3977: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3978: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3979: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3980: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3981: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3982: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3983: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 3984: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
3985: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 3986: <p>
3987:
3988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3989: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3990: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3991: </strong></font><br>
3992:
3993: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3994: <p>
3995: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3996:
1.69 deraadt 3997: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3998: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3999:
1.247 jufi 4000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4001: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4002: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4003: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4004: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4005:
1.58 louis 4006: Kurt Seifried
4007: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4008: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4009: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4010: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4011:
1.247 jufi 4012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4013: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4014: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4015: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4016:
4017: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4018: <p>
1.96 louis 4019:
1.247 jufi 4020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4021: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4022: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4023: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4024: </strong></font><br>
4025:
4026: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4027: <p>
4028:
4029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4030: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4031: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4032: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4033:
4034: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4035: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4036: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4037: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4038: <p>
1.247 jufi 4039: </ul>
1.86 louis 4040:
1.69 deraadt 4041: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4042: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4043:
1.247 jufi 4044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4045: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4046: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4047: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4048:
4049: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4050: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4051: <p>
1.61 louis 4052:
1.247 jufi 4053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4054: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4055: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4056: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4057: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4058:
4059: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4060: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4061: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4062: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4063: right -- or at least strives to".
4064: <p>
1.48 louis 4065:
1.247 jufi 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4067: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4068: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4069: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4070: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4071: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4072: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4073: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4074: <p>
1.61 louis 4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <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 4077: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4078: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4079:
4080: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4081: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4082: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4083: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4084: <p>
1.46 louis 4085:
1.247 jufi 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4087: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4088: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4089: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4090:
4091: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4092: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4093: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4096: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4097: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4098: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4099:
4100: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4101: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4102: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4103: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4104: <p>
1.247 jufi 4105: </ul>
1.70 louis 4106:
1.69 deraadt 4107: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4108: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4109:
1.247 jufi 4110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4111: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4112: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4113: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4114: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4115:
4116: Kurt Seifried
4117: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4118: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4119: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4120: <p>
1.44 philen 4121:
1.247 jufi 4122: <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 4123: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4124: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4125:
4126: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4127: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <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 4130: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4131: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4132:
4133: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4134: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4135:
1.247 jufi 4136: <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 4137: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4138: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4139:
4140: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4141: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4142: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4143: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4144: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <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 4147: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4148: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4149:
1.36 louis 4150: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4151: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4154: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4155: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4156: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4157:
4158: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4159: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4160: </ul>
1.38 louis 4161:
1.69 deraadt 4162: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4163: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4164:
1.247 jufi 4165: <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 4166: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4167: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4168:
4169: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4170: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4171: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4172:
1.113 naddy 4173: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4174: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4175: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4176: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4177:
4178: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4179: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4180: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4181: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4182: <blockquote>
4183: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4184: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4185: <br>
4186: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4187: </code>
4188: </blockquote>
4189: <p>
4190:
1.247 jufi 4191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4192: <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 4193: <p>
4194:
4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4196: <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 4197: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4198:
4199: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4200: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4201: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4202: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4203:
1.247 jufi 4204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4205: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4206: Sept. 28, 1999
4207: </strong></font><br>
4208:
4209: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4210: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4211: translating and reprinting articles from
4212: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4213: <p>
4214:
4215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4216: <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 4217: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4218:
4219: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4220: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4221: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4222: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4223: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4224: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4225: <p>
1.19 louis 4226:
1.113 naddy 4227: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4228: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4229: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4230:
4231: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4232: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4233: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4234: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4235: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4236: <p>
1.16 louis 4237:
1.247 jufi 4238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4239: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4240: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4241: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4242:
1.57 louis 4243: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4244: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4245: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4246: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4247:
1.247 jufi 4248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4249: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4250: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4251: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4252:
1.113 naddy 4253: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4254:
1.247 jufi 4255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4256: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4257: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4258: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4259:
1.23 louis 4260: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4261: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4262: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4263: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4264: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4265: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4268: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4269: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4270: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4271:
1.199 pvalchev 4272: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4273: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4274: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4275: installation.
1.113 naddy 4276: <p>
1.47 louis 4277:
1.247 jufi 4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4279: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4280: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4281: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4282:
1.301 jose 4283: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4284: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4285: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4286: </ul>
1.57 louis 4287:
1.69 deraadt 4288: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4289: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4290:
1.247 jufi 4291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4292: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4293: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4294: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4295:
4296: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4297: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4298: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4299: <p>
1.12 louis 4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4302: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4303: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4304: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4305:
4306: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4307: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4308: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4309: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4310: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4311: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4312: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4313: <p>
1.247 jufi 4314: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4315:
1.69 deraadt 4316: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4317: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4318:
1.247 jufi 4319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4320: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4321: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4322:
4323: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4324: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4325: available."
1.113 naddy 4326: <p>
1.301 jose 4327:
4328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4329: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4330: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4331: </strong></font><br>
4332:
4333: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4334: <p>
1.247 jufi 4335: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4336:
1.69 deraadt 4337: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4338: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4339:
1.247 jufi 4340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4341: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4342: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4343:
4344: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4345: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4346: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4347: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4348: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4349: <p>
1.33 louis 4350:
1.247 jufi 4351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4352: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4353: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4354: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4355:
1.113 naddy 4356: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4357: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4358: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4359: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4360: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4361: <p>
1.247 jufi 4362: </ul>
1.57 louis 4363:
1.69 deraadt 4364: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4365: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4366:
1.247 jufi 4367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4368: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4369: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4370: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4371:
4372: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4373: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4374: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4375:
1.247 jufi 4376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4377: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4378: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4379: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4380: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4381:
4382: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4383: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4384:
1.247 jufi 4385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4386: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4387:
1.113 naddy 4388: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4389:
1.247 jufi 4390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4391: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4392: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4393: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4394:
4395: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4396: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4397: </ul>
1.23 louis 4398:
1.69 deraadt 4399: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4400: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4401:
1.247 jufi 4402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4403: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4404: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4405:
4406: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4407: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4408: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4409:
1.247 jufi 4410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4411: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4412: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4413: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4414:
4415: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4416: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4417: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4418: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4419: </ul>
1.57 louis 4420:
1.69 deraadt 4421: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4422: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4423:
1.247 jufi 4424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4425: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4426: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4427: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4428:
4429: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4430: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4431: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4432: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4433: <p>
1.15 louis 4434:
1.247 jufi 4435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4436: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4437: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4438: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4439:
4440: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4441: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4442: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4443: columns."
1.113 naddy 4444: <p>
1.247 jufi 4445: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4446:
1.69 deraadt 4447: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4448: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4449:
1.247 jufi 4450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4451: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4452: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4453: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4454:
4455: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4456: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4457:
1.113 naddy 4458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4459: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4460: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4461:
4462: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4463: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4464: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4465: </ul>
1.57 louis 4466:
1.69 deraadt 4467: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4468: <ul>
1.301 jose 4469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4470: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4471: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4472: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4473:
4474: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4475: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4476: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4477: <p>
4478:
4479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4480: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4481: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4482: Nov 13, 1998 and
4483: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4484: Datateknik</a>,
4485: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4486:
1.380 saad 4487: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4488: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4489: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4490: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4491: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4492:
1.113 naddy 4493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4494: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4495: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4496: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4497:
1.222 miod 4498: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4499: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4500: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4501: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4502: <p>
1.247 jufi 4503: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4504:
1.69 deraadt 4505: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4506: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4507:
1.247 jufi 4508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4509: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4510: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4511:
1.69 deraadt 4512: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4513: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4514: <p>
1.247 jufi 4515: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4516:
1.69 deraadt 4517: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4518: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4519:
1.247 jufi 4520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4521: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4522: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4523: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4524:
1.383 jcs 4525: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4526: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4527: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4528:
1.247 jufi 4529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4530: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4531: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4532: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4533: <p>
1.247 jufi 4534: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4535:
1.69 deraadt 4536: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4537: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4538:
1.247 jufi 4539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4540: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4541: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4542: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4543: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4544: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4545:
4546: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4547: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4548: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4549: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4550: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4551: <p>
1.247 jufi 4552: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4553:
4554: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4555: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4556:
1.247 jufi 4557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4558: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4559: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4560:
1.69 deraadt 4561: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4562: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4563: <p>
1.112 naddy 4564:
1.247 jufi 4565: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4566: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4567:
1.292 camield 4568: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4569: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4570: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.433 ! ian 4571: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.432 2005/03/03 16:22:48 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4572:
4573: </body>
4574: </html>
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