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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.
1.434 ! ian 51: Similar articles can be found online at:
! 52: <ul>
! 53: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 54: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
! 55: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
! 56: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 57: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 58: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
! 59: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
! 60: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 62: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
! 63: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
! 64: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 66: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
! 67: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
! 68: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 69: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 70: </ul>
71:
1.426 ian 72: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
73: <ul>
74:
75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
76: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
77: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
78: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
79: This article talks about our systrace
80: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
81: mechanism: what it is and why and
82: how to use it, with examples.
83: Another excerpt from the book
84: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
85: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
89: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
90: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
91: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
92: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
93: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
94: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
95: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
96: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
97: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
98: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
99: This article is a sample chapter from
100: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
101: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
102: <p>
103: </ul>
104:
1.424 ian 105: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
106: <ul>
107:
108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 109: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
110: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
111: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
112: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
113: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
114: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
115: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
116: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
117: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
118: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
119: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
120: <p>
121: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
122: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
123: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 127: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
128: Closed Source Hardware</a>
129: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
130: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
131: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
132: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
133: operating systems.
134: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
135: OpenBSD on his firewall.
136: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
137: systems, he writes:
138: <blockquote>
139: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
140: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
141: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
142: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
143: to the operating system...
144: <br/>
145: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
146: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
147: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
148: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
149: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
150: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
151: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
152: in a closed source operating system).
153: <br/>
154: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
155: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
156: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
157: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
158: </blockquote>
159: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
160: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
161: their hardware and software operates.
162: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
163: reverse-engineering the
164: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
165: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
166: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
167: <p>
168: </ul>
169:
1.417 pvalchev 170: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
171: <ul>
1.421 ian 172:
1.417 pvalchev 173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 174: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
175: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
176: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
177: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
178: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
179: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
180: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
181: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
182: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
183: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
184: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 185: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 186: <p>
187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 188: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
189: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
190: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
191: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
192: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
193: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
194: it claims to do".
195: <p>
196:
197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 198: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
199: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
200: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
201: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
202: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 203: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 204: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
205: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
206: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
207: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
208: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
209: (yes, this is a hint).
210: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
211: picked up on the
212: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
213: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
214: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
215: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
216: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 220: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
221: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
222: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
223: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
224: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
225: questions about the significance and rationale behind
226: the current efforts.
227: <p>
228: </ul>
229:
1.407 henning 230: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
231: <ul>
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 233: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
234: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
235: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
236: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
237: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
238: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
239: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
240: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 244: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
245: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
246: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
247: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
248: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
249: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
250: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
251: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
252: of the important changes in 3.6.
253: </p>
254:
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 256: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
257: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
258: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
259: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
260: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
261: overflow attacks... because
262: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
263: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
264: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
265: and propolice.
266: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
267: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
268: and that's when the science falls apart."
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 272: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
273: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
274: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
275: Starts with the question:
276: <blockquote>
277: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
278: <br/>
279: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
280: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
281: <br/>
282: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
283: Should we believe them?"
284: </blockquote>
285: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
286: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
287: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
288: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
289: for your mail, web and other online activities.
290: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 294: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
295: Simple Simon</a>,
296: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
297: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
298: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
299: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
300: routing/firewall, and more.
301: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
302: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
303: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
304: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
305: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
306: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
307: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
308: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
309: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
310: </blockquote>
311: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
312: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 316: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
317: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 318: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 319: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 320: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
321: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
322: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 323: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 324: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
325: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
326: in spite of it
327: (registration required, but worth it).
328: <p>
329:
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
331: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
332: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
333: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
334: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
335: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
336: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
337: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 338: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 339: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
340: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
341: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
342: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 346: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
347: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
348: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
349: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
350: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
351: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
352: <blockquote>
353: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
354: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
355: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
356: a lot of analysis.
357: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
358: </blockquote>
359: <p>
360: </ul>
361:
1.400 marco 362: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
363: <ul>
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 365: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
366: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
367: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
368: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
369: UNIX-like systems.
370: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
371: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
372: <p>
373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 374: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
375: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 376: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
377: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
378: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
379: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
380: At one point, the article states:
381: <blockquote>
382: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
383: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
384: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
385: </blockquote>
386: And then quotes Theo as saying:
387: <blockquote>
388: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
389: fewer are reading or auditing code."
390: </blockquote>
391: <p>
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
393: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
394: marks its fifth birthday</a>
395: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
396: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
397: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
398: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
399: required).
400: <p>
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 402: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
403: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
404: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
405: </strong></font><br>
406: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
407: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
408: <p>
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 410: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
411: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 412: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 413: </strong></font><br>
414: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
415: <p>
416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 417: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
418: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 419: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 420: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 421: 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 422: <p>
423: </ul>
424:
1.396 henning 425: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
426: <ul>
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 428: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
429: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
430: Unix Review, July, 2004
431: </strong></font><br>
432: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
433: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
434: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
435: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
436: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
437: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
438: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
439: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
440: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
441: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
442: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
443: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
444: and even spelling/wording errors.
445: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
446: <p>
447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 448: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 449: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
450: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
451: </strong></font><br>
452: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
453: <p>
454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 455: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 456: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
457: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
458: </strong></font><br>
459: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
460: <p>
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 462: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
463: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
464: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
465: </strong></font><br>
466: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
467: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
468: <p>
469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 470: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
471: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
472: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
473: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
474: <p>
475: </ul>
476:
1.405 jolan 477: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
478: <ul>
479: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
480: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
481: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
482: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
483: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
484: details on how funds are dispersed.
485: <p>
486: </ul>
487:
1.393 david 488: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
489: <ul>
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 491: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
492: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
493: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
494: </strong></font><br>
495: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
496: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
497: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
498: on inserting large number of SQL records.
499: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
500: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
501: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 505: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
506: Secure by Default</a>,
507: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
508: </strong></font><br>
509: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
510: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
514: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
515: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
516: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
517: </strong></font><br>
518: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
519: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
520: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
521: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
522: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
523: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
527: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
528: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
529: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
530: </strong></font><br>
531: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
532: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
533: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
538: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
539: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
540: </strong></font><br>
541: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
542: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
543: <p>
544: </ul>
545:
1.388 mcbride 546: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
547: <ul>
1.394 jolan 548:
549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
550: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
551: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
552: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
553: </strong></font><br>
554: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
555: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
556: available for sparc64.
557: <p>
558:
1.390 beck 559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 560: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
561: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
562: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
563: </strong></font><br>
564: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
565: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
566: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
567: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
568: <p>
569:
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 571: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
572: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 573: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 574: </strong></font><br>
575: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
576: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
577: it does: CARP provides sharing
578: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
579: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
580: detail to get you started using it.
581: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
582: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
583: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
584: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
585: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
586: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
587: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 588: <p>
1.391 ian 589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 591: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 592: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
593: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 594: </strong></font><br>
595: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 596: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 597: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 598: <p>
1.388 mcbride 599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
601: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
602: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 603: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 604: </strong></font><br>
605: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
606: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
607: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
608: unencumbered by patents.
609: <p>
610: </ul>
611:
1.378 henning 612: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
613: <ul>
1.384 jose 614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 616: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
617: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
618: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
619: </strong></font><br>
620: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
621: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
622: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
623: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
624: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
625: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
626: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
627: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
628: in the page tables."
629: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 633: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
634: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
635: </strong></font><br>
636: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
637: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
638: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
639: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 640: <p>
1.384 jose 641:
1.378 henning 642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 643: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
644: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 645: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
646: </strong></font><br>
647: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
648: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
649: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
650: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
651: (quote:
652: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
653: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 654: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 655: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
656: the other developers for their work on the system.
657: <p>
658:
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 660: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
661: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
662: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 663: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 664: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
665: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
666: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
667: too.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 671: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
672: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 673: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 674: OpenBSD source code using
675: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
676: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
677: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
678: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
679: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
680: <p>
681: </ul>
682:
1.374 jose 683: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
684: <ul>
685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 686: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 687: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
688: </strong></font><br>
689: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
690: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
691: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
692: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
693: it."
694: <p>
695:
696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 697: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
698: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
699: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
700: </strong></font><br/>
701: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
702: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
703: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
704: <p>
705: </ul>
706:
1.369 ian 707: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
708: <ul>
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 710: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
711: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
712: </strong></font><br/>
713: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
714: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
715: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
716: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 720: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
721: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
722: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
723: </strong></font><br/>
724: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
725: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
726: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
727: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
728: form factor.
729: <p>
730:
731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
732: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
733: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
734: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
735: Features</a>,
736: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
737: </strong></font><br/>
738: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
739: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
740: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
741: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
742: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
743: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
744: <p>
745: This article can also be found online at:
746: <ul>
747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 748: <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 749: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
750: </strong></font>
751: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
752: </ul>
753: <p>
1.392 david 754:
1.371 jose 755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 756: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
757: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 758: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
759: </strong></font><br/>
760: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
761: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
762: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 763: <p>
1.371 jose 764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 766: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 767: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 768: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 769: </strong></font><br/>
770: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
771: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
772: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
773: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
774: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
775: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
776: and its history with OpenBSD.
777: </ul>
778:
1.368 henning 779: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
780: <ul>
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 782: [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 783: </strong></font><br>
784: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
785: </ul>
786:
1.364 jose 787: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
788: <ul>
789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 790: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
791: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
792: UNIX Review,
793: July, 2003.
794: </strong></font><br>
795: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
796: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
797: who want more information.
798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 801: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
802: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
803: Government Computer News,
804: July 22, 2003.
805: </strong></font><br>
806: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
807: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
808: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
809: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
810: <p>
811:
812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
813: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
814: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
815: SANS Institute,
816: July 22, 2003.
817: </strong></font><br>
818: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 819: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 820: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
821: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
822: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
823: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
824: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
825: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
826: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
827: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
828: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 832: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
833: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
834: OnLamp.com,
835: July 17, 2003.
836: </strong></font><br>
837: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
838: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
839: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
840: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
841: have been working on.
842:
843: </ul>
844:
1.356 jose 845: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 846: <ul>
847:
848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 849: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
850: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
851: UNIX Review,
852: June, 2003.
853: </strong></font><br>
854: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
855: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
856: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
857: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 861: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
862: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
863: eWeek,
864: June 23, 2003.
865: </strong></font><br>
866: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
867: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
868: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
869: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
870: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
871: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
872: <p>
873:
874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 875: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
876: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
877: Software Development Online,
878: June, 2003.
879: </strong></font><br>
880: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
881: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
882: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
883: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
884: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
885: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
886: current activities.
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 890: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
891: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 892: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
893: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
894: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
895: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 896: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 897: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
898: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
899: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 900: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 901: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
902: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 903: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 904: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
905: decisions.
906: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
907: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 908: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 909: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 913: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
914: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
915: Page 58, eWeek,
916: June 2, 2003.
917: </strong></font><br>
918: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
919: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
920: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
921: been addressed in -current.
922: <p>
923:
1.356 jose 924: </ul>
925:
926: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
927: <ul>
928:
1.355 jose 929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 930: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
931: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
932: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
933: </strong></font><br>
934: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
935: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
936: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
937: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
938: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
939: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
940: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
941: <p>
942:
943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 944: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
945: Beyond Linux</a>,
946: InfoWorld,
947: May 23, 2003.
948: </strong></font><br>
949: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
950: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
951: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
952: compared to the GPL.
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 956: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
957: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
958: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 959: May 17, 2003.
960: </strong></font><br>
961: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
962: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
963: the business section and half of another page inside
964: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
965: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
966: in talking about the project's history and goals.
967: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
968: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
969: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
970: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 971: <br>
972: This article can also be found online at:
973: <ul>
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
975: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
976: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
977: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
978: May 17, 2003
979: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 980: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
982: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
983: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
984: Montreal Gazette,
985: May 21, 2003
986: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 987: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 988: <p>
1.346 ian 989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 991: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 992: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 993: May 7, 2003.
994: </strong></font><br>
995: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
996: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
997: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
998: <p>
999:
1000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1001: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1002: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1003: OsOpinion,
1004: May 6, 2003.
1005: </strong></font><br>
1006: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1007: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1008: <br>
1009: This article can also be found online at:
1010: <ul>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1012: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1013: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1014: NewsFactor Network.
1015: </strong></font>
1016: </ul>
1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1020: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1021: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1022: ITBusiness,
1023: May 2, 2003.
1024: </strong></font><br>
1025: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1026: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1027: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1028: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1032: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1033: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1034: InfoWorld,
1035: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1036: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1037: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1038: <br>
1039: This article can also be found online at:
1040: <ul>
1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1042: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1043: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1044: IDG Singapore.
1045: </strong></font>
1046: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1047: <p>
1048:
1.339 jose 1049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1050: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1051: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1052: ZDNet,
1053: May 1, 2003.
1054: </strong></font><br>
1055: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1056: someone using parts from previous articles.
1057: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1058: This article can also be found online at:
1059: <ul>
1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1061: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1062: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1063: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1064: </strong></font>
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1066: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1067: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1068: CNET News.com.
1069: </strong></font>
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1071: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1072: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1073: ZDNet UK.
1074: </strong></font>
1075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1076: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1077: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1078: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1079: </strong></font>
1080: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1081: <p>
1.339 jose 1082:
1.341 deraadt 1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1084: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1085: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1086: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1087: May 1, 2003.
1088: </strong></font><br>
1089: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1090: that have been added
1091: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1092: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1093: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1094: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1095: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1096: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1097: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1098: <p>
1099:
1100: </ul>
1101:
1.253 ian 1102: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1103: <ul>
1.255 ian 1104:
1.260 ian 1105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1106: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1107: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1108: TechRepublic,
1109: April 28, 2003.
1110: </strong></font><br>
1111: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1112: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1113: work.<br>
1114: Can also be found online at:
1115: <ul>
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1117: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1118: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1119: ZDNet UK.
1120: </strong></font>
1121: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1122: <p>
1123:
1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1125: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1126: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1127: IDG,
1128: April 24, 2003.
1129: </strong></font><br>
1130: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1131: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1132: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1133: Can also be found online at:
1134: <ul>
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1136: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1137: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1138: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1139: </strong></font>
1140: </ul>
1141: <p>
1142:
1143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1144: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1145: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1146: Slate,
1147: April 24, 2003.
1148: </strong></font><br>
1149: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1150: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1151: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1152: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1153: <p>
1154:
1155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1156: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1157: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1158: April 24, 2003.
1159: </strong></font><br>
1160: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1161: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1162: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1163: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1164: <p>
1165:
1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1167: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1168: April 24, 2003.
1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1171: the free software community".
1172: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1173: other articles.
1174: <p>
1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1177: <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 1178: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1181: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1182: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1183: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1184: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1185: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1186: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1187: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1188: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1189: <br/>
1190: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1191: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1192: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1193: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1194: <br>
1195: Can also be found online at:
1196: <ul>
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1199: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1200: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1201: </strong></font>
1202: </ul>
1.324 ian 1203: <p>
1204:
1205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1206: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1207: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1208: </strong></font><br>
1209: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1210: article above.
1211: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1212: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1213: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1214: <br>
1215: Can also be found online at:
1216: <ul>
1217: <li>
1218: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1219: </strong></font>
1220: </ul>
1.324 ian 1221: <p>
1222:
1223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1224: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1225: </strong></font><br>
1226: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1230: <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.
1231: </strong></font><br>
1232: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1233: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1234: <p>
1235:
1236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1237: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1238: April 23, 2003.
1239: </strong></font><br>
1240: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1241: <p>
1242:
1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1244: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1245: April 22, 2003.
1246: </strong></font><br>
1247: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1251: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1252: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1253: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1254: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1255: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1256: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1257: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1258: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1259: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1260: Can also be found online at:
1261: <ul>
1262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1263: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1264: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1265: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1266: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1268: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1269: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1270: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1271: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1272: </ul>
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1276: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1277: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1278: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1279: </strong></font><br>
1280: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1281: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1282: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1283: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1284: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1285: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1286: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1287: <p>
1288:
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1290: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1291: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1292: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1293: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1294: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1295: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1296: at UPenn and DARPA.
1297: <p>
1298:
1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1300: [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,
1301: France
1.315 deraadt 1302: April 18, 2003.
1303: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1304: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1305: <p>
1306:
1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1308: [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 1309: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1310: </strong></font><br>
1311: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1312: <p>
1313:
1314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1315: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1316: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1317: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1318: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1319: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1320: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1321: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1322: <p>
1323:
1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1325: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1326: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1327: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1328: </strong></font><br>
1329: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1330: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1331: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1332: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1333: <p>
1334:
1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1336: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1337: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1338: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1340: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1341: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1342: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1343: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1344: Can also be found online at:
1345: <ul>
1346: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1347: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1348: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1349: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1350: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1351: <p>
1352:
1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1354: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1355: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1356: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1357: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1358: </strong></font><br>
1359: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1360: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1361: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1362: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1363: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1364:
1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1366: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1367: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1368: New York Times.
1369: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1370:
1.273 deraadt 1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1372: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1373: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1374: ABC News.
1375: </strong></font>
1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1378: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1379: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1380: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1381: </strong></font>
1382:
1383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1385: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1386: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1387: </strong></font>
1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1390: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1391: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1392: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1393: </strong></font>
1394:
1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1396: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1397: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1398: Times Daily, AL.
1399: </strong></font>
1400:
1401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1402: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1403: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1404: Boston.com, MA.
1405: </strong></font>
1406:
1407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1408: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1409: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1410: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1411: </strong></font>
1412:
1413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1414: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1415: [Article was pulled]</a>
1416: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1417: </strong></font>
1418:
1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1420: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1421: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1422: Infoshop News.
1423: </strong></font>
1424:
1425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1426: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1427: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1428: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1429: </strong></font>
1430:
1431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1432: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1433: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1434: Raleigh News, NC.
1435: </strong></font>
1436:
1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1438: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1439: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1440: Napa News, CA.
1441: </strong></font>
1442:
1443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1444: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1445: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1446: NEPA News, PA.
1447: </strong></font>
1448:
1449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1450: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1451: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1452: Wired News.
1453: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1454: <br>
1455: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1456: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1457: [JAPANESE]
1458: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1459: Wired News Japan</a>
1460: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1461:
1.271 deraadt 1462: </ul>
1463: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1464: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1465: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1466: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1467: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1468: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1469: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1470: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1471: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1472: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1473: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1474: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1475: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1476: <p>
1477: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1480: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1481: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1482: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1483: </strong></font>
1484:
1485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1486: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1487: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1488: Miami Herald, FL.
1489: </strong></font>
1490:
1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1492: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1493: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1494: </strong></font>
1495:
1496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1497: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1498: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1499: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1500: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1501:
1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1503: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1504: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1505: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1506: ABC News.
1507: </strong></font>
1508:
1.276 deraadt 1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1510: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1511: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1512: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1513: </strong></font>
1514:
1.286 dhartmei 1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1516: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1517: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1518: Wilmington Star, NC.
1519: </strong></font>
1520:
1.300 jose 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1522: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1523: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1524: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1525: </strong></font>
1526:
1.309 jose 1527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1528: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1529: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1530: Globe Technology.
1531: </strong></font>
1532:
1.263 deraadt 1533: </ul>
1.262 beck 1534: <p>
1535:
1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1537: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1538: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1539: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1540: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1541: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1542: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1543: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1544: <p>
1545:
1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1547: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1548: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1549: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1550: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1551: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1552: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1553: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1554: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1555: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1556: and simply restates other press reports.
1557: <p>
1558:
1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1560: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1561: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1562: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1563: </strong></font><br>
1564: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1568: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1569: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1570: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1571: </strong></font><br>
1572: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1573: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1574: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1578: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1579: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1580: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1581: April 17, 2003.
1582: </strong></font><br>
1583: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1584: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1585: Tech Anthems</a>
1586: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1587: 4 so far.
1588: <p>
1589:
1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1591: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1592: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1593: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1594: </strong></font><br>
1595: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1596: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1597: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1598: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1599: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1600: Goes on to say:
1601: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1602: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1603: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1604: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1605: This article is also found online at:
1606: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1608: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1609: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1610: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1611: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1613: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1614: ZDnet</a>,
1615: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1616: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1618: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1619: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1620: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1621: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1622: </ul>
1.260 ian 1623: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1624:
1.260 ian 1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1626: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1627: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1628: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1629: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1630: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1631: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1632: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1633: without notice or justification.
1634: <p>
1635:
1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1637: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1638: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1639: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1640: </strong></font><br>
1641: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1642: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1643: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1644: effective today, without any warning..."
1645: <p>
1.257 ian 1646:
1647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1648: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1649: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1650: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1651: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1652: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1653: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1654: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1655: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1656: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1657: <p>
1658:
1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1660: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1661: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1662: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1663: </strong></font><br>
1664: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1665: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1666: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1667: quoting two of them:
1668: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1669: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1670: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1671: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1672: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1673: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1674: <p>
1675:
1.255 ian 1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1677: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1678: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1679: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1680: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1681: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1682: <p>
1683:
1684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1685: [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 1686: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1687: </strong></font><br>
1688: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1689: <p>
1690:
1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1692: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1693: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1694: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1695: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1696: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1697: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1698: security experts for more than three decades."
1699: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1700: <p>
1.261 ian 1701:
1.254 drahn 1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1703: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1704: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1705: </strong></font><br>
1706: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1707: <p>
1708:
1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1710: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1711: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1712: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1713: </strong></font><br>
1714: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1715: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1716: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1717: <p>
1718:
1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1720: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1721: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1722: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1723: </strong></font><br>
1724: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1725: from US DARPA.
1726: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1727: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1728: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1729: the BSD license.
1730: <p>
1731: </ul>
1732:
1.251 ian 1733: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1734: <ul>
1735:
1736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1737: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1738: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1739: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1740: </strong></font><br>
1741:
1742: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1743: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1744: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1745: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1746: <p>
1747:
1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1749: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1750: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1751: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1752: </strong></font><br>
1753: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1754: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1755: Mentions
1756: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1757: and
1758: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1759: programs.
1760: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1761: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1762: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1763: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1764: <p>
1.325 ian 1765: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1766: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1767:
1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1769: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1770: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1771: </strong></font><br>
1772: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1773: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1774: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1775: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1776: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1777: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1778: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1779: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1780: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1781: put into service."
1782: <p>
1783: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1784: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1785: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1786: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1787: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1788: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1789: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1790: computers with security features."
1791: <p>
1.329 ian 1792:
1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1794: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1795: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1796: Slate,
1797: March 3, 2003.
1798: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1799: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1800: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1801: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1802: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1803: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1804: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1805: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1806: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1807: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1808: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1809: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1810: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1811: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1812: of more secure open-source solutions like
1813: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1814: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1815: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1816: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1817: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1818: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1819: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1820: the Beltway."
1821: <p>
1.251 ian 1822: </ul>
1823:
1.249 jufi 1824: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1825: <ul>
1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1827: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1828: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1829: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1830: </strong></font><br>
1831: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1832: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1833: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1834: <p>
1.334 ian 1835:
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1837: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1838: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1839: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1840: </strong></font><br>
1841: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1842: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1843: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1844: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1845: "... the hypothetical question ...
1846: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1847: <br>
1848: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1849: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1850: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1851: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1852: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1853: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1854: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1855: support network security.
1856: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1857: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1858: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1859: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1860: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1861: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1862: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1863: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1864: <br>
1865: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1866: <p>
1867:
1.249 jufi 1868: </ul>
1869:
1.246 jufi 1870: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1871: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1872:
1.247 jufi 1873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1874: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1875: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1876: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1877: </strong></font><br>
1878: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1879: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1880: <p>
1881:
1.247 jufi 1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1883: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1884: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1885: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1886: </strong></font><br>
1887: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1888: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1889: <p>
1890:
1891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1892: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1893: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1894: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1895: </strong></font><br>
1896: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1897: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1898: <p>
1.247 jufi 1899: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1900:
1.244 jufi 1901: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1902: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1903:
1.247 jufi 1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1905: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1906: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1907: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1908: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1909: </strong></font><br>
1910: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1911: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1912: md5 digests.
1913: <p>
1914:
1.247 jufi 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1916: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1917: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1918: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1919: </strong></font><br>
1920: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1921: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1922: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1923: right the first time."
1924: <p>
1.247 jufi 1925: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1926:
1927:
1928: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1929: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1932: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1933: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1934: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1935: </strong></font><br>
1936: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1937: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1938: part 6</a>.
1939: <p>
1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1942: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1943: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1944: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1945: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1946: </strong></font><br>
1947: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1948: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1949: <p>
1.301 jose 1950:
1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1952: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1953: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1954: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1955: </strong></font><br>
1956:
1957: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1958: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1959: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1960: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1961: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1962: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1963: <i>Here's the
1964: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1965: <p>
1.247 jufi 1966: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1967:
1968: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1969: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1970:
1.247 jufi 1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1972: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1973: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1974: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1975: </strong></font><br>
1976: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1977: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1978: <p>
1979:
1.247 jufi 1980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1981: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1982: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1983: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1984: </strong></font><br>
1985: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1986: this time using pf.
1987: <p>
1.247 jufi 1988: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1989:
1990: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1991: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1992:
1.247 jufi 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1994: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1995: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1996: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1997: </strong></font><br>
1998: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1999: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2000: their rotation.
2001: <p>
2002:
1.247 jufi 2003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2004: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2005: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2006: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2007: </strong></font><br>
2008: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2009: <p>
1.247 jufi 2010: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2011:
1.239 jufi 2012: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2013: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2014:
1.247 jufi 2015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2016: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2017: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2018: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2019: </strong></font><br>
2020: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2021: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2022: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2023: <p>
2024:
1.247 jufi 2025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2026: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2027: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2028: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2029: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2030: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2031: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2032: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2033: <p>
1.247 jufi 2034: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2035:
1.235 lebel 2036: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2037: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2038:
1.239 jufi 2039:
1.247 jufi 2040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2041: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2042: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2043: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2044: </strong></font><br>
2045: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2046: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2047: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2048: <p>
1.301 jose 2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2051:
1.228 horacio 2052: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2053: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2054:
1.247 jufi 2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2056: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2057: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2058: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2059: </strong></font><br>
2060: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2061: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2062: <p>
2063:
1.247 jufi 2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2065: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2066: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2067: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2068: </strong></font><br>
2069: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2070: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2071: <p>
2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2074: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2075: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2076: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2077: </strong></font><br>
2078: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2079: on the desktop of his parents.
2080: <p>
2081:
1.247 jufi 2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2083: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2084: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2085: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2086: </strong></font><br>
2087: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2088: using IPFilter.
2089:
2090: <p>
2091:
1.247 jufi 2092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2093: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2094: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2095: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2096: </strong></font><br>
2097: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2098: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2099: perspectives of the four OS.
2100: <br>
2101: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2102: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2103: <p>
2104:
1.247 jufi 2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2106: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2107: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2108: software and security</a>,
2109: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2110: </strong></font><br>
2111:
2112: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2113: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2114: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2115: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2116: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2117: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2118: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2119: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2120: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2121: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2122: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2123: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2124: <p>
1.247 jufi 2125: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2126:
1.225 horacio 2127: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2128: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2129:
1.247 jufi 2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2131: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2132: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2133: Interview</a>,
2134: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2135: </strong></font><br>
2136:
2137: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2138: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2139: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2140: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2141: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2142: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2143: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2144: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2145: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2146: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2147: of choice.
2148: <p>
1.247 jufi 2149: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2150:
2151: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2152: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2153:
1.247 jufi 2154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2155: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2156: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2157: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2158: </strong></font><br>
2159:
2160: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2161: <p>
2162:
1.247 jufi 2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2164: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2165: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2166: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2167: </strong></font><br>
2168:
2169: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2170: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2171: <p>
1.247 jufi 2172: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2173:
1.218 horacio 2174: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2175: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2176:
1.247 jufi 2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2178: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2179: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2180: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2181: </strong></font><br>
2182:
2183: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2184: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2185: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2186: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2187: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2188: subjects. Worth a read.
2189: <p>
2190:
2191:
1.247 jufi 2192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2193: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2194: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2195: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2196: </strong></font><br>
2197:
2198: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2199: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2200: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2201: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2202: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2203: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2204: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2205: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2206: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2207: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2208: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2209: on other operating systems.<br>
2210: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2211: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2212: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2213: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2214: <p>
2215:
1.247 jufi 2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2217: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2218: Operating System 2010</a>,
2219: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
2222: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2223: covering the level of software integration into the core
2224: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2225: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2226: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2227: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2228: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2229: <p>
2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2232: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2233: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2234: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2235: </strong></font><br>
2236:
2237: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2238: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2239: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2240: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2241: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2242: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2243: <p>
1.247 jufi 2244: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2245:
1.210 jufi 2246: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2247: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2248:
1.247 jufi 2249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2250: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2251: Already a Contender</a>,
2252: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2253: </strong></font><br>
2254:
2255: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2256: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2257: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2258: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2259: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2260: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2261: <p>
2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2264: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2265: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2266: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2267: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2268:
1.224 horacio 2269: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2270: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2271: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2272: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2273: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2274: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2275: <p>
1.247 jufi 2276: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2277:
2278: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2279: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2282: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2283: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2284: Division</a>,
2285: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2286: </strong></font><br>
2287:
2288: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2289: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2290: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2291: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2292: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2293: investment</em>.<br>
2294: The implementation details can be seen on their
2295: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2296: <p>
2297:
1.247 jufi 2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2299: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2300: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2301: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2302: </strong></font><br>
2303:
2304: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2305: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2306: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2307: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2308: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2309: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2310: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2311: <p>
2312:
2313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2314: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2315: Thinking about Security</a>,
2316: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2317: </strong></font><br>
2318:
2319: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2320: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2321: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2322: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2323: to time.<br>
2324: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2325: system and just the most secure system.
2326: <p>
2327:
1.247 jufi 2328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2329: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2330: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2331: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2332: </strong></font><br>
2333:
2334: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2335: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2336: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2337: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2338: choice:<br>
2339: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2340: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2341: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2342: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2343: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2344: network security devices and as such must be well
2345: armored."</em><br>
2346: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2347: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2348: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2349: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2350: <br>
2351: Bravo!
2352: <p>
1.247 jufi 2353: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2354:
1.207 ian 2355: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2356: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2357:
1.247 jufi 2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2359: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2360: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2361: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2362:
1.207 ian 2363: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2364: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2365: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2366: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2367: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2368: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2369: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2370: <p>
1.247 jufi 2371: </ul>
1.207 ian 2372:
1.194 jufi 2373: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2374: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2375:
1.247 jufi 2376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2377: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2378: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2379: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2380: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2381:
1.240 miod 2382: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2383: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2384: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2385: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2386: <p>
2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2389: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2390: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2391: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2392:
2393: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2394: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2395: <p>
2396:
2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2398: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2399: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2400: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2401:
2402: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2403: <p>
2404:
2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2406: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2407: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2408: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2409: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2410:
1.240 miod 2411: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2412: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2413: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2414: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2415: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2416: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2417: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2418: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2419: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2420: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2421: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2422: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2423: <p>
2424:
1.247 jufi 2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2426: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2427: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2428: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2429: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2430:
1.194 jufi 2431: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2432: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2433: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2434: <br>
2435: The new
2436: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2437: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2438: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2439: <p>
1.247 jufi 2440: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2441:
1.190 horacio 2442: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2443: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2444:
1.247 jufi 2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2446:
2447: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2448: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2449:
1.301 jose 2450:
1.191 jufi 2451: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2452: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2453:
2454: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2455: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2456:
1.212 horacio 2457: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2458: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2459: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2460:
1.211 horacio 2461: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2462: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2463: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2464:
1.247 jufi 2465: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2466: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2467:
1.247 jufi 2468: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2469: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2470:
1.212 horacio 2471: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2472: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2473: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2474:
2475: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2476: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2477:
2478: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2479: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2480:
1.301 jose 2481: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2482: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2483:
1.191 jufi 2484: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2485: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2486:
2487: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2488: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2489:
1.192 jufi 2490: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2491: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2492: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2493:
1.193 deraadt 2494: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2495: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2496: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2497:
1.247 jufi 2498: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2499: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2502: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2503: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2504:
1.213 horacio 2505: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2506: 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 2507: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2508:
1.190 horacio 2509: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2510: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2511: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2512: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2513: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2514: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2515: <p>
1.190 horacio 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2518: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2519: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2520: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2521: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2522:
1.195 jufi 2523: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2524: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2525: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2526: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2527: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2528: <p>
2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2531: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2532: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2533: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2534: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2535:
1.191 jufi 2536: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2537: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2538: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2539: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2540: <p>
2541:
2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2543: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2544: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2545: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2546:
2547: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2548: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2549: <p>
1.247 jufi 2550: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2551:
1.191 jufi 2552:
1.186 jufi 2553: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2554: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2557: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2558: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2559: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2560: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2561:
1.188 jufi 2562: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2563: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2564: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2565: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2566: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2567: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2568: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2569: <p>
2570:
1.301 jose 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2572: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2573: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2574: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2575:
2576: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2577: <p>
1.191 jufi 2578:
1.247 jufi 2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2580: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2581: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2582: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2583: </strong></font><br>
2584:
2585: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2586: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2587: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2588: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2589: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2590: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2591: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2592: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2593: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2594: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2595: familiar?
2596: <p>
1.247 jufi 2597: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2598:
1.178 louis 2599: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2600: <ul>
1.178 louis 2601:
1.247 jufi 2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2603: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2604: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2605: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2606: </strong></font><br>
2607:
2608: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2609: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2610: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2611: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2612: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2613: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2614: <p>
2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2617: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2618: Open source under the hood</a>,
2619: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2620: </strong></font><br>
2621:
2622: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2623: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2624: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2625: <p>
2626:
1.247 jufi 2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2628: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2629: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2630: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2634: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2635: <p>
1.247 jufi 2636: </ul>
1.179 louis 2637:
1.174 louis 2638:
1.175 louis 2639: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2640: <ul>
1.175 louis 2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2643: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2644: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2645: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2646: </strong></font><br>
2647:
2648: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2649: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2650: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2651: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2652: <p>
2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2655: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2656: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2657: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2658: </strong></font><br>
2659:
2660: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2661: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2662: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2663: <p>
1.247 jufi 2664: </ul>
1.175 louis 2665:
1.176 louis 2666:
1.172 mickey 2667: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2668: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2669:
1.247 jufi 2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2671: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2672: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2673: </strong></font><br>
2674:
2675: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2676: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2677: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2678: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2679: <p>
2680:
1.247 jufi 2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2682: <a
1.269 deraadt 2683: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2684: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2685: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2686: </strong></font><br>
2687:
2688: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2689: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2690: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2691: <p>
2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2694: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2695: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2696: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2697: </strong></font><br>
2698:
2699: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2700: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2701: <p>
2702:
1.247 jufi 2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2704: <a
1.269 deraadt 2705: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2706: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2707: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2708: </strong></font><br>
2709:
2710: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2711: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2712: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2713: our own Theo de Raadt.
2714: <p>
2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2717: <a
1.269 deraadt 2718: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2719: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2720: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2721: </strong></font><br>
2722:
2723: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2724: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2725: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2726: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2727: shut down.]
2728: <p>
2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2731: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2732: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2733: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2734: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2735: </strong></font><br>
2736:
2737: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2738: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2739: <p>
1.247 jufi 2740: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2741:
1.161 louis 2742: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2743: <ul>
1.161 louis 2744:
1.247 jufi 2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2746: <a
1.269 deraadt 2747: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2748: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2749: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2750: </strong></font><br>
2751:
2752: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2753: by John Wolley
2754: <p>
2755:
1.247 jufi 2756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2757: <a
1.269 deraadt 2758: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2759: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2760: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2761: </strong></font><br>
2762:
2763: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2764: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2765: OpenBSD).
2766: <p>
2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2769: <a
1.247 jufi 2770: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2771: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2772: </strong></font><br>
2773:
2774: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2775: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2776: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2777: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2778: and hindsight.
2779: <p>
2780:
1.247 jufi 2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2782: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2783: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2784: </strong></font><br>
2785:
2786: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2787: <p>
2788:
1.247 jufi 2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2790: <a
1.168 provos 2791: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2792: December 7, 2000
2793: </strong></font><br>
2794:
2795: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2796: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2797: us explain.
2798: <p>
2799:
1.247 jufi 2800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2801: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2802: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2803: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2804: December 6, 2000
2805: </strong></font><br>
2806:
2807: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2808: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2809: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2810: <p>
2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2813: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2814: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2815: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2816: </strong></font><br>
2817:
2818: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2819: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2820: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2821: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2822: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2823: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2824: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2825: <p>
2826:
2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2828: <a
1.226 horacio 2829: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2830: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2831: </strong></font><br>
2832:
2833: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2834: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2835: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2836: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2837: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2838: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2839: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2840: <p>
1.162 millert 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2843: <a
1.161 louis 2844: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2845: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2846: </strong></font><br>
2847:
2848: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2849: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2850: <p>
2851:
1.247 jufi 2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2853: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2854: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2855: </strong></font><br>
2856:
2857: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2858: <p>
2859:
2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2862: <a
1.226 horacio 2863: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2864: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2865: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2866: </strong></font><br>
2867:
2868: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2869: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2870: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2871: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2872: <p>
1.247 jufi 2873: </ul>
1.169 louis 2874:
1.158 louis 2875: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2876: <ul>
1.147 louis 2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2879: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2880: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2884: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2885: <p>
2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2888: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2889: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2890: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2891: </strong></font><br>
2892: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2893: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2894: <p>
2895:
1.247 jufi 2896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2897: <a
2898: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2899: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2900: </strong></font><br>
2901:
2902: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2903: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2904: <p>
2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2907: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2908: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2909: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2910:
1.213 horacio 2911: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2912: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2913: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2914: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2915: <p>
1.215 horacio 2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2918: <a
2919: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2920: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2921: </strong></font><br>
2922:
2923: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2924: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2925: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2926: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2927: much of the attitude too).
2928: <p>
1.161 louis 2929:
1.247 jufi 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2931: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2932: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2933: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2934:
1.157 louis 2935: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2936: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2937: <p>
1.247 jufi 2938: </ul>
1.157 louis 2939:
2940: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2941: <ul>
1.157 louis 2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2944: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2945: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2949: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2950: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2951: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2955: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2956: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2957: </strong></font><br>
2958:
2959: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2960: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2961: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2962: it because they love coding...
2963: <p>
2964:
1.247 jufi 2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2966: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2967: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2968: </strong></font><br>
2969:
2970: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2971: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2972: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2973: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2974: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2975: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2976: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2977: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2978: <p>
2979:
1.247 jufi 2980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2981: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2982: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2983: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2984: </strong></font><br>
2985:
2986: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2987: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2988: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2989: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2990: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2991: the pizza.
2992: <p>
2993:
1.247 jufi 2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2995: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2996: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2997: </strong></font><br>
2998:
2999: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3000: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3001: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3002: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3003: problems.
3004: <p>
3005:
1.247 jufi 3006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3007: <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 3008: </strong></font><br>
3009:
1.222 miod 3010: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3011: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3012: - whether they like it or not.
3013: <p>
3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3016: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3017: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3018: </strong></font><br>
3019:
3020: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3021: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3022: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3023: <p>
1.148 aaron 3024:
1.247 jufi 3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3026: <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 3027: </strong></font><br>
3028:
3029: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3030: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3031: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3032: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3033: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3034: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3035: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3036: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3037: <p>
3038:
1.247 jufi 3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3040: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3041: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3045: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3046: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3047: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3048: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3049: <p>
1.247 jufi 3050: </ul>
1.147 louis 3051:
1.138 louis 3052: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3053: <ul>
1.138 louis 3054:
1.247 jufi 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3056: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3057: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3058: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3059: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3060: </strong></font><br>
3061:
1.227 horacio 3062: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3063: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3064: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3065: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3066: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3067: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3068: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3069: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3070: <p>
3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3073: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3074: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3075: </strong></font><br>
3076:
3077: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3078: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3079: groups, and even Linux.
3080: <p>
3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3083: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3084: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3085: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3086: </strong></font><br>
3087:
3088: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3089: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3090: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3091: library after installing the OS.
3092: <p>
3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3095: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3096: Sys Admin, September 2000
3097: </strong></font><br>
3098:
3099: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3100: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3101: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3102: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3103: (<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>,
3104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3105: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3106: <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 3107: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3108: out of the system.
3109: <p>
3110:
1.247 jufi 3111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3112: <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
3113: </strong></font><br>
3114:
3115: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3116: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3117: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3118: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3119: the IP filtering and address translation.
3120: <p>
1.301 jose 3121:
3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3123: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3124: </strong></font><br>
3125:
3126: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3127: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3128: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3129: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3130: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3131: <p>
1.247 jufi 3132: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3133:
1.131 louis 3134: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3135: <ul>
1.131 louis 3136:
1.247 jufi 3137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3138: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3139: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3140: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3141: </strong></font><br>
3142:
3143: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3144: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3145: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3146: <p>
3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3149: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3150: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3151: </strong></font><br>
3152:
3153: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3154: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3155: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3156: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3157: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3158: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3159: note of"</i>.
3160: <p>
3161:
1.247 jufi 3162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3163: <a
1.247 jufi 3164: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3165: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3166: </strong></font><br>
3167:
3168: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3169: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3170: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3171: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3172: <p>
3173:
1.247 jufi 3174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3175: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3176: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3177: </strong></font><br>
3178:
3179: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3180: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3181: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3182: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3183: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3184: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3185: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3186: <p>
3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3189: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3190: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3191: 2000
3192: </strong></font><br>
3193:
3194: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3195: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3196: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3197: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3198: against current industry practices.
3199: <p>
3200:
1.247 jufi 3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3202: <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
3203: </strong></font><br>
3204:
3205: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3206: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3207: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3208: <p>
3209:
1.247 jufi 3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3211: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3212: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3213: </strong></font><br>
3214:
3215: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3216: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3217: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3218: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3219: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3220: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3221: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3222: <p>
3223:
1.247 jufi 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3225: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3226: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3227: </strong></font><br>
3228:
3229: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3230: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3231: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3232: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3233: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3234: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3235: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3236: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3237: <p>
1.247 jufi 3238: </ul>
1.131 louis 3239:
1.118 louis 3240: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3241: <ul>
1.118 louis 3242:
1.247 jufi 3243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3244: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3245: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3246: </strong></font><br>
3247:
3248: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3249: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3250: about time. The article mentions that
3251: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3252: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3253: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3254: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3255: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3256: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3257: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3258: <p>
3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3261: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3262: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3263: </strong></font><br>
3264:
3265: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3266: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3267: of OpenSSH.
3268: <p>
3269:
1.247 jufi 3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3271: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3272: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3273: </strong></font><br>
3274:
3275: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3276: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3277: bridging.
3278: <p>
3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3281: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3282: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3283: </strong></font><br>
3284:
1.121 deraadt 3285: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3286: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3287: <p>
3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3290: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3291: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3292: </strong></font><br>
3293:
3294: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3295: <p>
3296:
1.247 jufi 3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3298: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3299: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3300: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3301: </strong></font><br>
3302:
1.120 deraadt 3303: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3304: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3305: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3306: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3307: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3308: <p>
3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3311: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3312: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3313: </strong></font><br>
3314:
1.222 miod 3315: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3316: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3317: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3318: protocols and their quirks.
3319: <p>
3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3322: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3323: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3324: </strong></font><br>
3325:
3326: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3327: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3328: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3329: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3330: <p>
3331:
1.247 jufi 3332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3333: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3334: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3335: </strong></font><br>
3336:
3337: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3338: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3339: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3340: <p>
3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3343: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3344: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3345: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3346: </strong></font><br>
3347:
3348: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3349: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3350: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3351: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3352: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3353: <p>
1.247 jufi 3354: </ul>
1.118 louis 3355:
1.104 louis 3356: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3357: <ul>
1.104 louis 3358:
1.247 jufi 3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3360: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3361: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3362: </strong></font><br>
3363:
3364: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3365: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3366: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3367: be a bit dry.
3368: <p>
3369:
1.247 jufi 3370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3371: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3372: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3373: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3374: </strong></font><br>
3375: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3376: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3377: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3378: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3379: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3380: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3381: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3382: <p>
3383:
1.247 jufi 3384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3385: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3386: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3387: 2000
1.128 louis 3388: </strong></font><br>
3389:
3390: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3391: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3392: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3393: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3394: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3395: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3396: <p>
3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3399: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3400: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3401: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3402:
3403: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3404: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3405: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3406: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3407: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3408: <p>
1.110 louis 3409:
1.247 jufi 3410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3411: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3412: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3413: </strong></font><br>
3414:
3415: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3416: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3417: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3418: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3419: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3420: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3421: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3422: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3423: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3424: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3425: <p>
3426:
1.247 jufi 3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3428: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3429: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3430:
3431: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3432: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3433: <p>
1.108 louis 3434:
1.247 jufi 3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3436: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3437: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3438: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3439:
3440: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3441: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3442: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3443: <p>
1.106 louis 3444:
1.247 jufi 3445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3446: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3447: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3448: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3449:
3450: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3451: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3452: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3453: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3454: <p>
1.107 louis 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3457: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3458: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3459: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3460:
3461: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3462: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3463: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3464: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3465: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3466: <p>
1.105 louis 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3469: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3470: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3471: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3472:
1.113 naddy 3473: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3474: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3475: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3476: <p>
1.104 louis 3477:
1.247 jufi 3478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3479: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3480: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3481: </strong></font><br>
3482:
3483: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3484: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3485: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3486: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3487: <p>
1.301 jose 3488:
3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3490: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3491: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3492: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3493:
3494: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3495: hardware-supported cryptography.
3496: <p>
1.247 jufi 3497: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3498:
1.85 louis 3499: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3500: <ul>
1.85 louis 3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3503: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3504: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3505: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3506:
3507: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3508: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3509: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3510: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3511: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3512: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3513: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3514: <p>
1.99 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3517: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3518: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3519: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3520:
3521: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3522: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3523: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3524: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3525: <p>
1.100 louis 3526:
1.247 jufi 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3528: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3529: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3530: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3531:
3532: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3533: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3534: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3535: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3536: <p>
1.95 louis 3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3539: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3540: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3541: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3542:
3543: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3544: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3545: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3546: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3547: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3548: <p>
1.92 louis 3549:
1.247 jufi 3550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3551: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3552: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3553: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3554:
3555: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3556: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3557: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3558: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3559: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3560: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3561: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3562: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3563: <p>
1.91 louis 3564:
1.247 jufi 3565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3566: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3567: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3568: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3569:
3570: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3571: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3572: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3573: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3574: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3575: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3576: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3577: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3578: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3579: <p>
1.90 louis 3580:
1.247 jufi 3581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3582: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3583: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3584: </strong></font><br>
3585: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3586: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3587: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3588: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3589: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3590: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3591: <p>
3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3594: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3595: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3596: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3597:
1.113 naddy 3598: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3599: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3600: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3601: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3602: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3603: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3604: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3605: <p>
1.87 louis 3606:
1.247 jufi 3607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3608: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3609: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3610: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3611:
3612: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3613: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3614: <p>
1.85 louis 3615:
1.247 jufi 3616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3617: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3618: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3619: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3620:
3621: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3622: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3623: <p>
3624:
3625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3626: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3627: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3628: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3629:
3630: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3631: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3632: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3633: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3634: <p>
1.89 louis 3635:
1.247 jufi 3636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3637: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3638: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3639: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3640:
3641: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3642: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3643: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3644: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3645: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3646: </ul>
1.85 louis 3647:
1.78 deraadt 3648: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3649: <ul>
1.74 louis 3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3652: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3653: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3654: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3655: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3656:
3657: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3658: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3659: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3660: <p>
1.83 louis 3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3663: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3664: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3665: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3666:
3667: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3668: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3669: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3670: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3671: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.93 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3675: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3676: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3677: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3678: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3679:
1.83 louis 3680: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3681: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3682: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3683: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3684: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3685: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3686: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3687: <p>
1.82 aaron 3688:
1.247 jufi 3689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3690: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3691: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3692: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3693:
1.83 louis 3694: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3695: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3696: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3697: <p>
1.80 louis 3698:
1.247 jufi 3699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3700: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3701: Bad Press</a>,
3702: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3703: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3704:
3705: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3706: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3707: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3708: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3709: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3710: <p>
1.247 jufi 3711: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3712:
3713: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3714: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3715:
1.247 jufi 3716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3717: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3718: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3719: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3720: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3721:
3722: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3723: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3724: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3725: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3726: <p>
1.74 louis 3727:
1.247 jufi 3728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3729: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3730: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3731: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3732:
1.219 horacio 3733: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3734: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3735: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3736: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3737: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3738: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3739: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3740: <p>
1.88 louis 3741:
1.247 jufi 3742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3743: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3744: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3745: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3746:
3747: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3748: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3749: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3750: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3751: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3752: <p>
1.81 louis 3753:
1.247 jufi 3754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3755: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3756: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3757: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3758:
3759: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3760: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3761: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3762: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3763: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3764: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3765: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3766: <p>
1.90 louis 3767:
1.247 jufi 3768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3769: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3770: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3771: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3772:
3773: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3774: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3775: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3776: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3777: <p>
1.247 jufi 3778: </ul>
1.71 louis 3779:
1.69 deraadt 3780: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3781: <ul>
1.70 louis 3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3784: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3785: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3786: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3787:
3788: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3789: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3790: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3791: <p>
1.70 louis 3792:
1.247 jufi 3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3794: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3795: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3796: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3797:
3798: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3799: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3800: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3801: <p>
1.68 louis 3802:
1.247 jufi 3803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3804: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3805: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3806: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3807: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3808:
1.111 jufi 3809: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3810: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3811: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3812: "secure by default" installation.
3813: <p>
1.64 louis 3814:
1.247 jufi 3815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3816: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3817: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3818: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3819:
1.113 naddy 3820: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3821: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3822: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3823: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3824: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3825: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3826: <p>
1.66 louis 3827:
1.247 jufi 3828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3829: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3830: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3831: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3832:
3833: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3834: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3835: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3836: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3837: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3838: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3839: <p>
1.83 louis 3840:
1.247 jufi 3841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3842: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3843: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3844: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3845:
3846: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3847: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3848: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3849: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3850: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3851: <p>
1.64 louis 3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3854: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3855: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3856: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3857:
3858: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3859: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3860: <p>
1.301 jose 3861:
3862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3863: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3864: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3865: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3866: </strong></font><br>
3867:
3868: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3869: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3870: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3871: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3872: Giving way to
3873: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3874: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3875: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3876: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3877: <p>
1.247 jufi 3878: </ul>
1.65 louis 3879:
1.69 deraadt 3880: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3881: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3882:
1.247 jufi 3883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3884: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3885: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3886: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3887:
3888: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3889: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3890: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3891: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3892: <p>
1.88 louis 3893:
1.247 jufi 3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3895: <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 3896: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3897:
3898: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3899: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3900: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3901: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3902: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3903: <p>
1.60 louis 3904:
1.247 jufi 3905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3906: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3907: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3908: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3909: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3910:
3911: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3912: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3913: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3914: <p>
1.58 louis 3915:
1.247 jufi 3916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3917: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3918: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3919:
3920: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3921: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3922: <p>
1.53 louis 3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3925: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3926: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3927: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3928:
3929: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3930: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3931: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3932: <p>
1.99 louis 3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3935: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3936: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3937:
3938: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3939: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3940: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3941: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3942: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3943:
1.247 jufi 3944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3945: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3946: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3947: </strong></font><br>
3948:
3949: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3950: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3951: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3952: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3953: <p>
3954:
1.247 jufi 3955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3956: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3957: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3958: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3959:
3960: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3961: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3962: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3963:
1.247 jufi 3964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3965: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3966: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3967:
3968: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3969: in
1.247 jufi 3970: <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 3971: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3972: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3973: <p>
1.53 louis 3974:
1.247 jufi 3975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3976: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3977: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3978: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3979: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3980:
1.58 louis 3981: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3982: <p>
1.301 jose 3983:
3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3985: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3986: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3987: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3988: Informacyjny, January 2000
3989: </strong></font><br>
3990:
3991: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3992: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3993: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3994: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3995: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3996: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3997: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3998: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3999: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4000: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4001: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4002: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4003: <p>
4004:
4005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4006: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4007: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4008: </strong></font><br>
4009:
4010: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4011: <p>
4012: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4013:
1.69 deraadt 4014: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4015: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4016:
1.247 jufi 4017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4018: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4019: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4020: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4021: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4022:
1.58 louis 4023: Kurt Seifried
4024: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4025: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4026: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4027: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4028:
1.247 jufi 4029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4030: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4031: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4032: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4033:
4034: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4035: <p>
1.96 louis 4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4038: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4039: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4040: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4041: </strong></font><br>
4042:
4043: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4044: <p>
4045:
4046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4047: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4048: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4049: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4050:
4051: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4052: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4053: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4054: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4055: <p>
1.247 jufi 4056: </ul>
1.86 louis 4057:
1.69 deraadt 4058: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4059: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4060:
1.247 jufi 4061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4062: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4063: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4064: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4065:
4066: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4067: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4068: <p>
1.61 louis 4069:
1.247 jufi 4070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4071: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4072: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4073: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4074: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4075:
4076: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4077: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4078: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4079: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4080: right -- or at least strives to".
4081: <p>
1.48 louis 4082:
1.247 jufi 4083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4084: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4085: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4086: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4087: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4088: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4089: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4090: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4091: <p>
1.61 louis 4092:
1.247 jufi 4093: <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 4094: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4095: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4096:
4097: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4098: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4099: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4100: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4101: <p>
1.46 louis 4102:
1.247 jufi 4103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4104: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4105: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4106: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4107:
4108: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4109: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4110: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4113: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4114: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4115: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4116:
4117: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4118: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4119: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4120: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4121: <p>
1.247 jufi 4122: </ul>
1.70 louis 4123:
1.69 deraadt 4124: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4125: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4128: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4129: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4130: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4131: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4132:
4133: Kurt Seifried
4134: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4135: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4136: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4137: <p>
1.44 philen 4138:
1.247 jufi 4139: <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 4140: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4141: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4142:
4143: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4144: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <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 4147: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4148: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4149:
4150: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4151: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <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 4154: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4155: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4156:
4157: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4158: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4159: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4160: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4161: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4162:
1.247 jufi 4163: <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 4164: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4165: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4166:
1.36 louis 4167: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4168: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4171: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4172: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4173: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4174:
4175: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4176: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4177: </ul>
1.38 louis 4178:
1.69 deraadt 4179: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4180: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <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 4183: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4184: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4185:
4186: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4187: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4188: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4189:
1.113 naddy 4190: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4191: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4192: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4193: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4194:
4195: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4196: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4197: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4198: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4199: <blockquote>
4200: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4201: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4202: <br>
4203: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4204: </code>
4205: </blockquote>
4206: <p>
4207:
1.247 jufi 4208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4209: <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 4210: <p>
4211:
4212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4213: <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 4214: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4215:
4216: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4217: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4218: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4219: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4220:
1.247 jufi 4221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4222: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4223: Sept. 28, 1999
4224: </strong></font><br>
4225:
4226: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4227: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4228: translating and reprinting articles from
4229: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4230: <p>
4231:
4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4233: <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 4234: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4235:
4236: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4237: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4238: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4239: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4240: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4241: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4242: <p>
1.19 louis 4243:
1.113 naddy 4244: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4245: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4246: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4247:
4248: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4249: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4250: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4251: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4252: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4253: <p>
1.16 louis 4254:
1.247 jufi 4255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4256: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4257: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4258: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4259:
1.57 louis 4260: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4261: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4262: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4263: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4264:
1.247 jufi 4265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4266: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4267: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4268: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4269:
1.113 naddy 4270: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4273: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4274: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4275: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4276:
1.23 louis 4277: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4278: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4279: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4280: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4281: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4282: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4283:
1.247 jufi 4284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4285: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4286: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4287: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4288:
1.199 pvalchev 4289: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4290: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4291: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4292: installation.
1.113 naddy 4293: <p>
1.47 louis 4294:
1.247 jufi 4295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4296: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4297: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4298: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4299:
1.301 jose 4300: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4301: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4302: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4303: </ul>
1.57 louis 4304:
1.69 deraadt 4305: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4306: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4307:
1.247 jufi 4308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4309: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4310: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4311: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4312:
4313: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4314: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4315: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4316: <p>
1.12 louis 4317:
1.247 jufi 4318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4319: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4320: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4321: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4322:
4323: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4324: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4325: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4326: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4327: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4328: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4329: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4330: <p>
1.247 jufi 4331: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4332:
1.69 deraadt 4333: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4334: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4335:
1.247 jufi 4336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4337: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4338: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4339:
4340: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4341: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4342: available."
1.113 naddy 4343: <p>
1.301 jose 4344:
4345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4346: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4347: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4348: </strong></font><br>
4349:
4350: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4351: <p>
1.247 jufi 4352: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4353:
1.69 deraadt 4354: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4355: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4358: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4359: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4360:
4361: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4362: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4363: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4364: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4365: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4366: <p>
1.33 louis 4367:
1.247 jufi 4368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4369: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4370: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4371: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4372:
1.113 naddy 4373: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4374: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4375: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4376: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4377: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4378: <p>
1.247 jufi 4379: </ul>
1.57 louis 4380:
1.69 deraadt 4381: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4382: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4383:
1.247 jufi 4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4385: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4386: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4387: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4388:
4389: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4390: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4391: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4392:
1.247 jufi 4393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4394: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4395: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4396: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4397: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4398:
4399: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4400: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4401:
1.247 jufi 4402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4403: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4404:
1.113 naddy 4405: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4408: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4409: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4410: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4411:
4412: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4413: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4414: </ul>
1.23 louis 4415:
1.69 deraadt 4416: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4417: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4418:
1.247 jufi 4419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4420: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4421: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4422:
4423: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4424: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4425: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4426:
1.247 jufi 4427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4428: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4429: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4430: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4431:
4432: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4433: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4434: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4435: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4436: </ul>
1.57 louis 4437:
1.69 deraadt 4438: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4439: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4442: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4443: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4444: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4445:
4446: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4447: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4448: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4449: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4450: <p>
1.15 louis 4451:
1.247 jufi 4452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4453: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4454: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4455: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4456:
4457: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4458: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4459: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4460: columns."
1.113 naddy 4461: <p>
1.247 jufi 4462: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4463:
1.69 deraadt 4464: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4465: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4466:
1.247 jufi 4467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4468: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4469: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4470: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4471:
4472: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4473: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4474:
1.113 naddy 4475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4476: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4477: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4478:
4479: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4480: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4481: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4482: </ul>
1.57 louis 4483:
1.69 deraadt 4484: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4485: <ul>
1.301 jose 4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4487: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4488: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4489: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4490:
4491: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4492: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4493: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4494: <p>
4495:
4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4497: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4498: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4499: Nov 13, 1998 and
4500: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4501: Datateknik</a>,
4502: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4503:
1.380 saad 4504: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4505: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4506: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4507: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4508: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4509:
1.113 naddy 4510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4511: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4512: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4513: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4514:
1.222 miod 4515: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4516: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4517: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4518: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4519: <p>
1.247 jufi 4520: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4521:
1.69 deraadt 4522: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4523: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4526: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4527: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4528:
1.69 deraadt 4529: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4530: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4531: <p>
1.247 jufi 4532: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4533:
1.69 deraadt 4534: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4535: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4536:
1.247 jufi 4537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4538: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4539: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4540: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4541:
1.383 jcs 4542: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4543: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4544: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4545:
1.247 jufi 4546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4547: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4548: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4549: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4550: <p>
1.247 jufi 4551: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4552:
1.69 deraadt 4553: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4554: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4555:
1.247 jufi 4556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4557: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4558: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4559: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4560: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4561: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4562:
4563: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4564: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4565: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4566: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4567: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4568: <p>
1.247 jufi 4569: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4570:
4571: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4572: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4575: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4576: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4577:
1.69 deraadt 4578: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4579: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4580: <p>
1.112 naddy 4581:
1.247 jufi 4582: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4583: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4584:
1.292 camield 4585: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4586: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4587: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.434 ! ian 4588: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.433 2005/03/04 01:29:36 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4589:
4590: </body>
4591: </html>