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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.436 henning 19: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
22: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
23: </strong></font><br>
24: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
25: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 ! martin 26: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 27: the issues we had with IETF.
28: </ul>
29:
1.431 ian 30: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
31: <ul>
32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 33: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
34: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
35: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
36: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
37: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
38: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
39: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
40: <p>
41:
42: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 43: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
44: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
45: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
46: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
47: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
48: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 49: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 50: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
51: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
52: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
53: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
54: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
55: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
56: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
57: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
58:
59: </ul>
60:
1.427 matthieu 61: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
62: <ul>
63:
64: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 65: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
66: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
67: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
68: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
69: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
70: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
71: firmware.
1.434 ian 72: Similar articles can be found online at:
73: <ul>
74: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
75: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
76: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
77: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
78: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
79: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
80: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
81: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
83: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
84: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
85: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
87: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
88: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
89: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
90: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 91: </ul>
92:
1.426 ian 93: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
94: <ul>
95:
96: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
97: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
98: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
99: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
100: This article talks about our systrace
101: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
102: mechanism: what it is and why and
103: how to use it, with examples.
104: Another excerpt from the book
105: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
106: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
110: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
111: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
112: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
113: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
114: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
115: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
116: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
117: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
118: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
119: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
120: This article is a sample chapter from
121: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
122: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
123: <p>
124: </ul>
125:
1.424 ian 126: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
127: <ul>
128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 130: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
131: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
132: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
133: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
134: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
135: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
136: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
137: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
138: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
139: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
140: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
141: <p>
142: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
143: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
144: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 148: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
149: Closed Source Hardware</a>
150: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
151: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
152: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
153: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
154: operating systems.
155: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
156: OpenBSD on his firewall.
157: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
158: systems, he writes:
159: <blockquote>
160: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
161: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
162: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
163: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
164: to the operating system...
165: <br/>
166: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
167: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
168: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
169: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
170: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
171: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
172: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
173: in a closed source operating system).
174: <br/>
175: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
176: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
177: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
178: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
179: </blockquote>
180: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
181: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
182: their hardware and software operates.
183: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
184: reverse-engineering the
185: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
186: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
187: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
188: <p>
189: </ul>
190:
1.417 pvalchev 191: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
192: <ul>
1.421 ian 193:
1.417 pvalchev 194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 195: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
196: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
197: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
198: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
199: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
200: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
201: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
202: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
203: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
204: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
205: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 206: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 207: <p>
208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 209: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
210: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
211: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
212: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
213: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
214: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
215: it claims to do".
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 219: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
220: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
221: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
222: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
223: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 224: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 225: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
226: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
227: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
228: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
229: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
230: (yes, this is a hint).
231: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
232: picked up on the
233: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
234: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
235: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
236: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
237: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
238: <p>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 241: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
242: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
243: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
244: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
245: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
246: questions about the significance and rationale behind
247: the current efforts.
248: <p>
249: </ul>
250:
1.407 henning 251: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
252: <ul>
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 254: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
255: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
256: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
257: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
258: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
259: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
260: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
261: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 265: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
266: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
267: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
268: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
269: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
270: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
271: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
272: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
273: of the important changes in 3.6.
274: </p>
275:
276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 277: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
278: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
279: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
280: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
281: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
282: overflow attacks... because
283: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
284: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
285: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
286: and propolice.
287: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
288: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
289: and that's when the science falls apart."
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 293: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
294: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
295: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
296: Starts with the question:
297: <blockquote>
298: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
299: <br/>
300: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
301: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
302: <br/>
303: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
304: Should we believe them?"
305: </blockquote>
306: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
307: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
308: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
309: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
310: for your mail, web and other online activities.
311: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 315: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
316: Simple Simon</a>,
317: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
318: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
319: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
320: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
321: routing/firewall, and more.
322: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
323: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
324: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
325: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
326: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
327: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
328: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
329: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
330: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
331: </blockquote>
332: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
333: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
334: <p>
335:
336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 337: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
338: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 339: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 340: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 341: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
342: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
343: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 344: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 345: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
346: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
347: in spite of it
348: (registration required, but worth it).
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
352: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
353: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
354: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
355: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
356: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
357: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
358: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 359: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 360: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
361: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
362: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
363: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 367: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
368: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
369: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
370: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
371: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
372: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
373: <blockquote>
374: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
375: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
376: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
377: a lot of analysis.
378: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
379: </blockquote>
380: <p>
381: </ul>
382:
1.400 marco 383: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
384: <ul>
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 386: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
387: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
388: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
389: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
390: UNIX-like systems.
391: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
392: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
393: <p>
394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 395: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
396: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 397: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
398: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
399: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
400: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
401: At one point, the article states:
402: <blockquote>
403: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
404: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
405: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
406: </blockquote>
407: And then quotes Theo as saying:
408: <blockquote>
409: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
410: fewer are reading or auditing code."
411: </blockquote>
412: <p>
413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
414: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
415: marks its fifth birthday</a>
416: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
417: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
418: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
419: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
420: required).
421: <p>
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 423: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
424: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
425: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
426: </strong></font><br>
427: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
428: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
429: <p>
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 431: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
432: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 433: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 434: </strong></font><br>
435: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
436: <p>
437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 438: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
439: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 440: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 441: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 442: 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 443: <p>
444: </ul>
445:
1.396 henning 446: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
447: <ul>
448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 449: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
450: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
451: Unix Review, July, 2004
452: </strong></font><br>
453: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
454: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
455: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
456: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
457: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
458: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
459: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
460: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
461: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
462: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
463: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
464: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
465: and even spelling/wording errors.
466: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
467: <p>
468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 469: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 470: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
471: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
472: </strong></font><br>
473: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
474: <p>
475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 476: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 477: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
478: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
479: </strong></font><br>
480: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
481: <p>
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 483: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
484: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
485: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
486: </strong></font><br>
487: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
488: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
489: <p>
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 491: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
492: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
493: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
494: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
495: <p>
496: </ul>
497:
1.405 jolan 498: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
499: <ul>
500: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
501: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
502: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
503: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
504: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
505: details on how funds are dispersed.
506: <p>
507: </ul>
508:
1.393 david 509: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
510: <ul>
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 512: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
513: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
514: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
515: </strong></font><br>
516: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
517: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
518: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
519: on inserting large number of SQL records.
520: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
521: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
522: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 526: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
527: Secure by Default</a>,
528: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
529: </strong></font><br>
530: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
531: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
532: <p>
533:
534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
535: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
536: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
537: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
538: </strong></font><br>
539: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
540: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
541: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
542: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
543: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
544: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
545: <p>
546:
547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
548: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
549: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
550: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
551: </strong></font><br>
552: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
553: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
554: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
555: <p>
556:
557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
558: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
559: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
560: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
561: </strong></font><br>
562: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
563: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
564: <p>
565: </ul>
566:
1.388 mcbride 567: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
568: <ul>
1.394 jolan 569:
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
571: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
572: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
573: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
574: </strong></font><br>
575: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
576: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
577: available for sparc64.
578: <p>
579:
1.390 beck 580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 581: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
582: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
583: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
584: </strong></font><br>
585: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
586: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
587: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
588: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
589: <p>
590:
591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 592: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
593: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 594: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 595: </strong></font><br>
596: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
597: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
598: it does: CARP provides sharing
599: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
600: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
601: detail to get you started using it.
602: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
603: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
604: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
605: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
606: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
607: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
608: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 609: <p>
1.391 ian 610:
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 612: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 613: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
614: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 615: </strong></font><br>
616: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 617: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 618: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 619: <p>
1.388 mcbride 620:
621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
622: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
623: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 624: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 625: </strong></font><br>
626: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
627: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
628: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
629: unencumbered by patents.
630: <p>
631: </ul>
632:
1.378 henning 633: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
634: <ul>
1.384 jose 635:
636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 637: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
638: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
639: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
640: </strong></font><br>
641: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
642: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
643: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
644: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
645: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
646: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
647: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
648: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
649: in the page tables."
650: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
651: <p>
652:
653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 654: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
655: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
656: </strong></font><br>
657: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
658: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
659: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
660: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 661: <p>
1.384 jose 662:
1.378 henning 663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 664: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
665: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 666: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
667: </strong></font><br>
668: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
669: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
670: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
671: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
672: (quote:
673: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
674: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 675: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 676: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
677: the other developers for their work on the system.
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 681: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
682: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
683: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 684: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 685: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
686: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
687: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
688: too.
689: <p>
690:
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 692: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
693: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 694: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 695: OpenBSD source code using
696: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
697: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
698: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
699: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
700: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
701: <p>
702: </ul>
703:
1.374 jose 704: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
705: <ul>
706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 707: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 708: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
709: </strong></font><br>
710: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
711: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
712: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
713: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
714: it."
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 718: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
719: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
720: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
721: </strong></font><br/>
722: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
723: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
724: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
725: <p>
726: </ul>
727:
1.369 ian 728: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
729: <ul>
730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 731: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
732: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
733: </strong></font><br/>
734: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
735: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
736: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
737: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
738: <p>
739:
740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 741: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
742: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
743: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
744: </strong></font><br/>
745: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
746: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
747: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
748: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
749: form factor.
750: <p>
751:
752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
753: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
754: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
755: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
756: Features</a>,
757: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
758: </strong></font><br/>
759: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
760: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
761: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
762: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
763: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
764: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
765: <p>
766: This article can also be found online at:
767: <ul>
768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 769: <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 770: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
771: </strong></font>
772: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
773: </ul>
774: <p>
1.392 david 775:
1.371 jose 776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 777: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
778: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 779: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
780: </strong></font><br/>
781: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
782: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
783: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 784: <p>
1.371 jose 785:
786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 787: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 788: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 789: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 790: </strong></font><br/>
791: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
792: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
793: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
794: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
795: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
796: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
797: and its history with OpenBSD.
798: </ul>
799:
1.368 henning 800: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
801: <ul>
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 803: [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 804: </strong></font><br>
805: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
806: </ul>
807:
1.364 jose 808: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
809: <ul>
810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 811: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
812: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
813: UNIX Review,
814: July, 2003.
815: </strong></font><br>
816: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
817: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
818: who want more information.
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 822: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
823: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
824: Government Computer News,
825: July 22, 2003.
826: </strong></font><br>
827: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
828: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
829: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
830: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
831: <p>
832:
833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
834: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
835: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
836: SANS Institute,
837: July 22, 2003.
838: </strong></font><br>
839: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 840: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 841: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
842: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
843: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
844: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
845: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
846: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
847: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
848: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
849: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 853: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
854: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
855: OnLamp.com,
856: July 17, 2003.
857: </strong></font><br>
858: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
859: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
860: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
861: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
862: have been working on.
863:
864: </ul>
865:
1.356 jose 866: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 867: <ul>
868:
869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 870: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
871: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
872: UNIX Review,
873: June, 2003.
874: </strong></font><br>
875: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
876: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
877: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
878: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
879: <p>
880:
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 882: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
883: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
884: eWeek,
885: June 23, 2003.
886: </strong></font><br>
887: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
888: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
889: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
890: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
891: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
892: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
893: <p>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 896: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
897: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
898: Software Development Online,
899: June, 2003.
900: </strong></font><br>
901: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
902: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
903: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
904: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
905: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
906: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
907: current activities.
908: <p>
909:
910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 911: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
912: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 913: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
914: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
915: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
916: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 917: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 918: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
919: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
920: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 921: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 922: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
923: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 924: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 925: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
926: decisions.
927: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
928: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 929: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 930: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 931: <p>
932:
933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 934: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
935: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
936: Page 58, eWeek,
937: June 2, 2003.
938: </strong></font><br>
939: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
940: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
941: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
942: been addressed in -current.
943: <p>
944:
1.356 jose 945: </ul>
946:
947: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
948: <ul>
949:
1.355 jose 950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 951: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
952: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
953: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
954: </strong></font><br>
955: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
956: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
957: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
958: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
959: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
960: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
961: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
962: <p>
963:
964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 965: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
966: Beyond Linux</a>,
967: InfoWorld,
968: May 23, 2003.
969: </strong></font><br>
970: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
971: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
972: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
973: compared to the GPL.
974: <p>
975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 977: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
978: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
979: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 980: May 17, 2003.
981: </strong></font><br>
982: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
983: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
984: the business section and half of another page inside
985: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
986: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
987: in talking about the project's history and goals.
988: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
989: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
990: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
991: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 992: <br>
993: This article can also be found online at:
994: <ul>
995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
996: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
997: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
998: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
999: May 17, 2003
1000: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1001: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1003: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1004: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1005: Montreal Gazette,
1006: May 21, 2003
1007: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1008: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1009: <p>
1.346 ian 1010:
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1012: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1013: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1014: May 7, 2003.
1015: </strong></font><br>
1016: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1017: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1018: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1022: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1023: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1024: OsOpinion,
1025: May 6, 2003.
1026: </strong></font><br>
1027: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1028: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1029: <br>
1030: This article can also be found online at:
1031: <ul>
1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1033: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1034: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1035: NewsFactor Network.
1036: </strong></font>
1037: </ul>
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1041: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1042: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1043: ITBusiness,
1044: May 2, 2003.
1045: </strong></font><br>
1046: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1047: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1048: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1049: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1053: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1054: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1055: InfoWorld,
1056: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1057: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1058: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1059: <br>
1060: This article can also be found online at:
1061: <ul>
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1063: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1064: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1065: IDG Singapore.
1066: </strong></font>
1067: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1068: <p>
1069:
1.339 jose 1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1071: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1072: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1073: ZDNet,
1074: May 1, 2003.
1075: </strong></font><br>
1076: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1077: someone using parts from previous articles.
1078: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1079: This article can also be found online at:
1080: <ul>
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1082: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1083: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1084: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1085: </strong></font>
1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1087: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1088: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1089: CNET News.com.
1090: </strong></font>
1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1092: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1093: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1094: ZDNet UK.
1095: </strong></font>
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1097: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1098: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1099: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1100: </strong></font>
1101: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1102: <p>
1.339 jose 1103:
1.341 deraadt 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1105: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1106: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1107: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1108: May 1, 2003.
1109: </strong></font><br>
1110: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1111: that have been added
1112: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1113: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1114: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1115: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1116: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1117: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1118: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1119: <p>
1120:
1121: </ul>
1122:
1.253 ian 1123: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1124: <ul>
1.255 ian 1125:
1.260 ian 1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1127: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1128: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1129: TechRepublic,
1130: April 28, 2003.
1131: </strong></font><br>
1132: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1133: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1134: work.<br>
1135: Can also be found online at:
1136: <ul>
1137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1138: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1139: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1140: ZDNet UK.
1141: </strong></font>
1142: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1143: <p>
1144:
1145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1146: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1147: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1148: IDG,
1149: April 24, 2003.
1150: </strong></font><br>
1151: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1152: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1153: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1154: Can also be found online at:
1155: <ul>
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1157: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1158: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1159: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1160: </strong></font>
1161: </ul>
1162: <p>
1163:
1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1165: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1166: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1167: Slate,
1168: April 24, 2003.
1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1171: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1172: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1173: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1174: <p>
1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1177: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1178: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1179: April 24, 2003.
1180: </strong></font><br>
1181: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1182: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1183: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1184: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1188: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1189: April 24, 2003.
1190: </strong></font><br>
1191: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1192: the free software community".
1193: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1194: other articles.
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1198: <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 1199: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1200: </strong></font><br>
1201: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1202: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1203: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1204: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1205: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1206: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1207: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1208: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1209: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1210: <br/>
1211: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1212: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1213: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1214: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1215: <br>
1216: Can also be found online at:
1217: <ul>
1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1219: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1220: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1221: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1222: </strong></font>
1223: </ul>
1.324 ian 1224: <p>
1225:
1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1227: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1228: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1229: </strong></font><br>
1230: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1231: article above.
1232: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1233: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1234: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1235: <br>
1236: Can also be found online at:
1237: <ul>
1238: <li>
1239: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1240: </strong></font>
1241: </ul>
1.324 ian 1242: <p>
1243:
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1245: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1246: </strong></font><br>
1247: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1251: <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.
1252: </strong></font><br>
1253: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1254: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1258: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1259: April 23, 2003.
1260: </strong></font><br>
1261: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1262: <p>
1263:
1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1265: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1266: April 22, 2003.
1267: </strong></font><br>
1268: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1269: <p>
1270:
1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1272: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1273: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1274: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1275: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1276: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1277: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1278: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1279: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1280: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1281: Can also be found online at:
1282: <ul>
1283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1284: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1285: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1286: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1287: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1289: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1290: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1291: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1292: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1293: </ul>
1294: <p>
1295:
1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1297: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1298: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1299: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1300: </strong></font><br>
1301: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1302: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1303: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1304: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1305: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1306: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1307: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1308: <p>
1309:
1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1311: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1312: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1313: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1314: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1315: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1316: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1317: at UPenn and DARPA.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1321: [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,
1322: France
1.315 deraadt 1323: April 18, 2003.
1324: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1325: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1329: [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 1330: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1331: </strong></font><br>
1332: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1333: <p>
1334:
1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1336: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1337: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1338: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1340: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1341: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1342: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1346: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1347: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1348: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1349: </strong></font><br>
1350: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1351: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1352: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1353: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1354: <p>
1355:
1356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1357: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1358: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1359: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1360: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1361: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1362: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1363: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1364: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1365: Can also be found online at:
1366: <ul>
1367: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1368: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1369: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1370: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1371: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1372: <p>
1373:
1374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1375: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1376: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1377: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1378: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1379: </strong></font><br>
1380: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1381: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1382: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1383: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1384: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1385:
1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1387: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1388: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1389: New York Times.
1390: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1391:
1.273 deraadt 1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1393: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1394: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1395: ABC News.
1396: </strong></font>
1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1399: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1400: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1401: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1402: </strong></font>
1403:
1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1405: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1406: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1407: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1408: </strong></font>
1409:
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1411: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1412: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1413: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1414: </strong></font>
1415:
1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1417: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1418: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1419: Times Daily, AL.
1420: </strong></font>
1421:
1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1423: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1424: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1425: Boston.com, MA.
1426: </strong></font>
1427:
1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1429: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1430: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1431: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1432: </strong></font>
1433:
1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1435: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1436: [Article was pulled]</a>
1437: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1438: </strong></font>
1439:
1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1441: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1442: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1443: Infoshop News.
1444: </strong></font>
1445:
1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1447: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1448: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1449: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1450: </strong></font>
1451:
1452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1453: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1454: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1455: Raleigh News, NC.
1456: </strong></font>
1457:
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1459: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1460: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1461: Napa News, CA.
1462: </strong></font>
1463:
1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1465: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1466: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1467: NEPA News, PA.
1468: </strong></font>
1469:
1470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1471: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1472: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1473: Wired News.
1474: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1475: <br>
1476: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1477: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1478: [JAPANESE]
1479: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1480: Wired News Japan</a>
1481: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1482:
1.271 deraadt 1483: </ul>
1484: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1485: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1486: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1487: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1488: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1489: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1490: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1491: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1492: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1493: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1494: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1495: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1496: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1497: <p>
1498: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1501: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1502: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1503: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1504: </strong></font>
1505:
1506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1507: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1508: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1509: Miami Herald, FL.
1510: </strong></font>
1511:
1512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1513: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1514: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1515: </strong></font>
1516:
1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1518: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1519: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1520: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1521: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1522:
1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1524: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1525: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1526: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1527: ABC News.
1528: </strong></font>
1529:
1.276 deraadt 1530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1531: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1532: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1533: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1534: </strong></font>
1535:
1.286 dhartmei 1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1537: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1538: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1539: Wilmington Star, NC.
1540: </strong></font>
1541:
1.300 jose 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1543: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1544: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1545: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1546: </strong></font>
1547:
1.309 jose 1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1549: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1550: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1551: Globe Technology.
1552: </strong></font>
1553:
1.263 deraadt 1554: </ul>
1.262 beck 1555: <p>
1556:
1557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1558: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1559: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1560: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1561: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1562: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1563: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1564: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1568: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1569: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1570: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1571: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1572: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1573: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1574: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1575: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1576: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1577: and simply restates other press reports.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1581: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1582: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1583: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1584: </strong></font><br>
1585: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1586: <p>
1587:
1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1589: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1590: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1591: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1592: </strong></font><br>
1593: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1594: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1595: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1596: <p>
1597:
1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1599: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1600: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1601: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1602: April 17, 2003.
1603: </strong></font><br>
1604: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1605: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1606: Tech Anthems</a>
1607: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1608: 4 so far.
1609: <p>
1610:
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1612: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1613: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1614: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1615: </strong></font><br>
1616: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1617: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1618: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1619: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1620: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1621: Goes on to say:
1622: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1623: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1624: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1625: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1626: This article is also found online at:
1627: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1629: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1630: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1631: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1632: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1634: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1635: ZDnet</a>,
1636: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1639: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1640: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1641: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1642: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1643: </ul>
1.260 ian 1644: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1645:
1.260 ian 1646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1647: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1648: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1649: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1650: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1651: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1652: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1653: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1654: without notice or justification.
1655: <p>
1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1658: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1659: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1660: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1661: </strong></font><br>
1662: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1663: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1664: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1665: effective today, without any warning..."
1666: <p>
1.257 ian 1667:
1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1669: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1670: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1671: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1672: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1673: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1674: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1675: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1676: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1677: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1678: <p>
1679:
1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1681: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1682: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1683: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1684: </strong></font><br>
1685: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1686: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1687: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1688: quoting two of them:
1689: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1690: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1691: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1692: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1693: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1694: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1695: <p>
1696:
1.255 ian 1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1698: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1699: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1700: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1701: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1702: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1703: <p>
1704:
1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1706: [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 1707: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1708: </strong></font><br>
1709: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1710: <p>
1711:
1712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1713: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1714: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1715: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1716: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1717: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1718: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1719: security experts for more than three decades."
1720: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1721: <p>
1.261 ian 1722:
1.254 drahn 1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1724: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1725: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1726: </strong></font><br>
1727: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1728: <p>
1729:
1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1731: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1732: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1733: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1734: </strong></font><br>
1735: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1736: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1737: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1741: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1742: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1743: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1746: from US DARPA.
1747: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1748: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1749: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1750: the BSD license.
1751: <p>
1752: </ul>
1753:
1.251 ian 1754: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1755: <ul>
1756:
1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1758: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1759: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1760: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1761: </strong></font><br>
1762:
1763: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1764: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1765: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1766: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1767: <p>
1768:
1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1770: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1771: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1772: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1773: </strong></font><br>
1774: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1775: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1776: Mentions
1777: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1778: and
1779: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1780: programs.
1781: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1782: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1783: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1784: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1785: <p>
1.325 ian 1786: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1787: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1788:
1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1790: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1791: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1792: </strong></font><br>
1793: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1794: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1795: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1796: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1797: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1798: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1799: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1800: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1801: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1802: put into service."
1803: <p>
1804: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1805: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1806: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1807: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1808: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1809: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1810: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1811: computers with security features."
1812: <p>
1.329 ian 1813:
1814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1815: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1816: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1817: Slate,
1818: March 3, 2003.
1819: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1820: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1821: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1822: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1823: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1824: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1825: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1826: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1827: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1828: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1829: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1830: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1831: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1832: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1833: of more secure open-source solutions like
1834: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1835: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1836: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1837: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1838: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1839: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1840: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1841: the Beltway."
1842: <p>
1.251 ian 1843: </ul>
1844:
1.249 jufi 1845: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1846: <ul>
1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1848: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1849: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1850: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1851: </strong></font><br>
1852: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1853: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1854: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1855: <p>
1.334 ian 1856:
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1858: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1859: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1860: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1861: </strong></font><br>
1862: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1863: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1864: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1865: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1866: "... the hypothetical question ...
1867: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1868: <br>
1869: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1870: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1871: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1872: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1873: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1874: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1875: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1876: support network security.
1877: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1878: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1879: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1880: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1881: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1882: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1883: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1884: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1885: <br>
1886: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1887: <p>
1888:
1.249 jufi 1889: </ul>
1890:
1.246 jufi 1891: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1892: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1893:
1.247 jufi 1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1895: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1896: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1897: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1898: </strong></font><br>
1899: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1900: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1901: <p>
1902:
1.247 jufi 1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1904: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1905: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1906: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1907: </strong></font><br>
1908: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1909: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1910: <p>
1911:
1912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1913: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1914: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1915: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1916: </strong></font><br>
1917: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1918: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1919: <p>
1.247 jufi 1920: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1921:
1.244 jufi 1922: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1923: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1924:
1.247 jufi 1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1926: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1927: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1928: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1929: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1930: </strong></font><br>
1931: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1932: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1933: md5 digests.
1934: <p>
1935:
1.247 jufi 1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1937: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1938: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1939: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1940: </strong></font><br>
1941: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1942: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1943: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1944: right the first time."
1945: <p>
1.247 jufi 1946: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1947:
1948:
1949: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1950: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1951:
1.247 jufi 1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1953: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1954: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1955: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1956: </strong></font><br>
1957: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1958: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1959: part 6</a>.
1960: <p>
1961:
1.247 jufi 1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1963: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1964: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1965: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1966: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1969: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1970: <p>
1.301 jose 1971:
1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1973: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1974: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1975: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1976: </strong></font><br>
1977:
1978: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1979: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1980: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1981: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1982: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1983: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1984: <i>Here's the
1985: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1986: <p>
1.247 jufi 1987: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1988:
1989: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1990: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1991:
1.247 jufi 1992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1993: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1994: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1995: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1996: </strong></font><br>
1997: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1998: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1999: <p>
2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2002: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2003: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2004: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2005: </strong></font><br>
2006: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2007: this time using pf.
2008: <p>
1.247 jufi 2009: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2010:
2011: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2012: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2015: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2016: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2017: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2018: </strong></font><br>
2019: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2020: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2021: their rotation.
2022: <p>
2023:
1.247 jufi 2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2025: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2026: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2027: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2028: </strong></font><br>
2029: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2030: <p>
1.247 jufi 2031: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2032:
1.239 jufi 2033: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2034: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2035:
1.247 jufi 2036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2037: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2038: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2039: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2040: </strong></font><br>
2041: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2042: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2043: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2044: <p>
2045:
1.247 jufi 2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2047: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2048: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2049: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2050: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2051: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2052: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2053: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2054: <p>
1.247 jufi 2055: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2056:
1.235 lebel 2057: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2058: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2059:
1.239 jufi 2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2062: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2063: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2064: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2065: </strong></font><br>
2066: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2067: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2068: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2069: <p>
1.301 jose 2070:
1.247 jufi 2071: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2072:
1.228 horacio 2073: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2074: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2075:
1.247 jufi 2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2077: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2078: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2079: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2080: </strong></font><br>
2081: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2082: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2083: <p>
2084:
1.247 jufi 2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2086: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2087: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2088: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2089: </strong></font><br>
2090: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2091: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2092: <p>
2093:
1.247 jufi 2094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2095: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2096: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2097: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2098: </strong></font><br>
2099: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2100: on the desktop of his parents.
2101: <p>
2102:
1.247 jufi 2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2104: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2105: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2106: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2107: </strong></font><br>
2108: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2109: using IPFilter.
2110:
2111: <p>
2112:
1.247 jufi 2113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2114: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2115: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2116: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2117: </strong></font><br>
2118: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2119: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2120: perspectives of the four OS.
2121: <br>
2122: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2123: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2124: <p>
2125:
1.247 jufi 2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2127: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2128: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2129: software and security</a>,
2130: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2131: </strong></font><br>
2132:
2133: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2134: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2135: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2136: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2137: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2138: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2139: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2140: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2141: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2142: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2143: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2144: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2145: <p>
1.247 jufi 2146: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2147:
1.225 horacio 2148: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2149: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2152: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2153: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2154: Interview</a>,
2155: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2156: </strong></font><br>
2157:
2158: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2159: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2160: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2161: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2162: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2163: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2164: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2165: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2166: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2167: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2168: of choice.
2169: <p>
1.247 jufi 2170: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2171:
2172: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2173: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2176: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2177: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2178: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2179: </strong></font><br>
2180:
2181: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2182: <p>
2183:
1.247 jufi 2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2185: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2186: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2187: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2188: </strong></font><br>
2189:
2190: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2191: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2192: <p>
1.247 jufi 2193: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2194:
1.218 horacio 2195: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2196: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2197:
1.247 jufi 2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2199: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2200: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2201: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2202: </strong></font><br>
2203:
2204: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2205: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2206: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2207: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2208: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2209: subjects. Worth a read.
2210: <p>
2211:
2212:
1.247 jufi 2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2214: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2215: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2216: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2217: </strong></font><br>
2218:
2219: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2220: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2221: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2222: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2223: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2224: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2225: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2226: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2227: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2228: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2229: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2230: on other operating systems.<br>
2231: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2232: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2233: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2234: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2238: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2239: Operating System 2010</a>,
2240: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2241: </strong></font><br>
2242:
2243: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2244: covering the level of software integration into the core
2245: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2246: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2247: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2248: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2249: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2250: <p>
2251:
1.247 jufi 2252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2253: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2254: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2255: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2256: </strong></font><br>
2257:
2258: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2259: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2260: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2261: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2262: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2263: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2264: <p>
1.247 jufi 2265: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2266:
1.210 jufi 2267: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2268: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2271: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2272: Already a Contender</a>,
2273: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2274: </strong></font><br>
2275:
2276: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2277: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2278: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2279: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2280: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2281: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2282: <p>
2283:
1.247 jufi 2284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2285: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2286: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2287: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2288: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2289:
1.224 horacio 2290: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2291: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2292: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2293: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2294: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2295: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2296: <p>
1.247 jufi 2297: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2298:
2299: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2300: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2301:
1.247 jufi 2302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2303: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2304: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2305: Division</a>,
2306: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2307: </strong></font><br>
2308:
2309: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2310: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2311: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2312: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2313: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2314: investment</em>.<br>
2315: The implementation details can be seen on their
2316: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2317: <p>
2318:
1.247 jufi 2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2320: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2321: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2322: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2323: </strong></font><br>
2324:
2325: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2326: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2327: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2328: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2329: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2330: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2331: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2332: <p>
2333:
2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2335: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2336: Thinking about Security</a>,
2337: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2338: </strong></font><br>
2339:
2340: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2341: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2342: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2343: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2344: to time.<br>
2345: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2346: system and just the most secure system.
2347: <p>
2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2350: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2351: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2352: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2353: </strong></font><br>
2354:
2355: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2356: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2357: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2358: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2359: choice:<br>
2360: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2361: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2362: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2363: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2364: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2365: network security devices and as such must be well
2366: armored."</em><br>
2367: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2368: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2369: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2370: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2371: <br>
2372: Bravo!
2373: <p>
1.247 jufi 2374: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2375:
1.207 ian 2376: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2377: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2378:
1.247 jufi 2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2380: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2381: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2382: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2383:
1.207 ian 2384: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2385: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2386: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2387: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2388: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2389: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2390: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2391: <p>
1.247 jufi 2392: </ul>
1.207 ian 2393:
1.194 jufi 2394: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2395: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2398: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2399: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2400: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2401: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2402:
1.240 miod 2403: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2404: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2405: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2406: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2407: <p>
2408:
1.247 jufi 2409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2410: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2411: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2412: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2413:
2414: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2415: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2416: <p>
2417:
2418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2419: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2420: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2421: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2422:
2423: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2424: <p>
2425:
2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2427: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2428: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2429: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2430: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2431:
1.240 miod 2432: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2433: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2434: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2435: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2436: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2437: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2438: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2439: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2440: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2441: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2442: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2443: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2444: <p>
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2447: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2448: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2449: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2451:
1.194 jufi 2452: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2453: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2454: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2455: <br>
2456: The new
2457: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2458: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2459: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2460: <p>
1.247 jufi 2461: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2462:
1.190 horacio 2463: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2464: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2467:
2468: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2469: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2470:
1.301 jose 2471:
1.191 jufi 2472: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2473: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2474:
2475: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2476: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2477:
1.212 horacio 2478: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2479: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2480: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2481:
1.211 horacio 2482: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2483: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2484: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2485:
1.247 jufi 2486: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2487: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2488:
1.247 jufi 2489: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2490: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2491:
1.212 horacio 2492: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2493: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2494: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2495:
2496: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2497: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2498:
2499: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2500: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2501:
1.301 jose 2502: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2503: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2504:
1.191 jufi 2505: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2506: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2507:
2508: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2509: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2510:
1.192 jufi 2511: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2512: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2513: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2514:
1.193 deraadt 2515: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2516: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2517: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2518:
1.247 jufi 2519: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2520: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2521:
1.247 jufi 2522: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2523: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2524: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2525:
1.213 horacio 2526: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2527: 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 2528: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2529:
1.190 horacio 2530: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2531: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2532: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2533: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2534: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2535: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2536: <p>
1.190 horacio 2537:
1.247 jufi 2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2539: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2540: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2541: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2542: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2543:
1.195 jufi 2544: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2545: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2546: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2547: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2548: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2549: <p>
2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2552: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2553: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2554: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2555: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2556:
1.191 jufi 2557: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2558: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2559: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2560: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2561: <p>
2562:
2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2564: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2565: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2566: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2569: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2570: <p>
1.247 jufi 2571: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2572:
1.191 jufi 2573:
1.186 jufi 2574: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2575: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2576:
1.247 jufi 2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2578: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2579: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2580: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2581: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2582:
1.188 jufi 2583: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2584: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2585: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2586: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2587: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2588: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2589: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2590: <p>
2591:
1.301 jose 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2593: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2594: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2595: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2596:
2597: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2598: <p>
1.191 jufi 2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2601: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2602: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2603: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2604: </strong></font><br>
2605:
2606: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2607: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2608: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2609: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2610: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2611: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2612: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2613: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2614: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2615: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2616: familiar?
2617: <p>
1.247 jufi 2618: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2619:
1.178 louis 2620: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2621: <ul>
1.178 louis 2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2624: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2625: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2626: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628:
2629: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2630: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2631: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2632: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2633: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2634: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2635: <p>
2636:
1.247 jufi 2637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2638: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2639: Open source under the hood</a>,
2640: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2641: </strong></font><br>
2642:
2643: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2644: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2645: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2646: <p>
2647:
1.247 jufi 2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2649: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2650: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2651: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2652: </strong></font><br>
2653:
2654: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2655: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2656: <p>
1.247 jufi 2657: </ul>
1.179 louis 2658:
1.174 louis 2659:
1.175 louis 2660: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2661: <ul>
1.175 louis 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2664: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2665: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2666: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2667: </strong></font><br>
2668:
2669: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2670: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2671: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2672: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2673: <p>
2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2676: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2677: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2678: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2679: </strong></font><br>
2680:
2681: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2682: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2683: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2684: <p>
1.247 jufi 2685: </ul>
1.175 louis 2686:
1.176 louis 2687:
1.172 mickey 2688: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2689: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2690:
1.247 jufi 2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2692: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2693: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2694: </strong></font><br>
2695:
2696: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2697: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2698: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2699: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2700: <p>
2701:
1.247 jufi 2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2703: <a
1.269 deraadt 2704: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2705: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2706: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2707: </strong></font><br>
2708:
2709: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2710: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2711: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2712: <p>
2713:
1.247 jufi 2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2715: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2716: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2717: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2718: </strong></font><br>
2719:
2720: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2721: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2722: <p>
2723:
1.247 jufi 2724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2725: <a
1.269 deraadt 2726: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2727: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2728: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2729: </strong></font><br>
2730:
2731: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2732: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2733: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2734: our own Theo de Raadt.
2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2738: <a
1.269 deraadt 2739: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2740: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2741: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2742: </strong></font><br>
2743:
2744: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2745: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2746: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2747: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2748: shut down.]
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2752: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2753: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2754: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2755: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2756: </strong></font><br>
2757:
2758: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2759: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2760: <p>
1.247 jufi 2761: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2762:
1.161 louis 2763: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2764: <ul>
1.161 louis 2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2767: <a
1.269 deraadt 2768: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2769: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2770: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2771: </strong></font><br>
2772:
2773: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2774: by John Wolley
2775: <p>
2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2778: <a
1.269 deraadt 2779: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2780: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2781: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2782: </strong></font><br>
2783:
2784: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2785: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2786: OpenBSD).
2787: <p>
2788:
1.247 jufi 2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2790: <a
1.247 jufi 2791: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2792: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2793: </strong></font><br>
2794:
2795: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2796: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2797: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2798: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2799: and hindsight.
2800: <p>
2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2803: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2804: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2805: </strong></font><br>
2806:
2807: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2808: <p>
2809:
1.247 jufi 2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2811: <a
1.168 provos 2812: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2813: December 7, 2000
2814: </strong></font><br>
2815:
2816: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2817: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2818: us explain.
2819: <p>
2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2822: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2823: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2824: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2825: December 6, 2000
2826: </strong></font><br>
2827:
2828: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2829: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2830: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2831: <p>
2832:
1.247 jufi 2833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2834: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2835: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2836: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2837: </strong></font><br>
2838:
2839: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2840: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2841: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2842: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2843: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2844: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2845: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2846: <p>
2847:
2848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2849: <a
1.226 horacio 2850: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2851: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2852: </strong></font><br>
2853:
2854: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2855: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2856: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2857: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2858: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2859: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2860: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2861: <p>
1.162 millert 2862:
1.247 jufi 2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2864: <a
1.161 louis 2865: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2866: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2867: </strong></font><br>
2868:
2869: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2870: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2871: <p>
2872:
1.247 jufi 2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2874: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2875: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2876: </strong></font><br>
2877:
2878: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2879: <p>
2880:
2881:
1.247 jufi 2882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2883: <a
1.226 horacio 2884: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2885: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2886: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888:
2889: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2890: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2891: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2892: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2893: <p>
1.247 jufi 2894: </ul>
1.169 louis 2895:
1.158 louis 2896: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2897: <ul>
1.147 louis 2898:
1.247 jufi 2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2900: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2901: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2902: </strong></font><br>
2903:
2904: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2905: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2906: <p>
2907:
1.247 jufi 2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2909: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2910: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2911: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2912: </strong></font><br>
2913: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2914: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2915: <p>
2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2918: <a
2919: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2920: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2921: </strong></font><br>
2922:
2923: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2924: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2925: <p>
2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2928: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2929: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2930: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2931:
1.213 horacio 2932: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2933: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2934: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2935: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2936: <p>
1.215 horacio 2937:
1.247 jufi 2938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2939: <a
2940: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2941: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2942: </strong></font><br>
2943:
2944: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2945: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2946: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2947: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2948: much of the attitude too).
2949: <p>
1.161 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2952: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2953: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2954: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2955:
1.157 louis 2956: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2957: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2958: <p>
1.247 jufi 2959: </ul>
1.157 louis 2960:
2961: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2962: <ul>
1.157 louis 2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2965: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2966: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2967: </strong></font><br>
2968:
2969: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2970: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2971: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2972: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2973: <p>
2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2976: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2977: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2981: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2982: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2983: it because they love coding...
2984: <p>
2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2987: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2988: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2989: </strong></font><br>
2990:
2991: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2992: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2993: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2994: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2995: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2996: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2997: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2998: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2999: <p>
3000:
1.247 jufi 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3002: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3003: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3004: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3005: </strong></font><br>
3006:
3007: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3008: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3009: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3010: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3011: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3012: the pizza.
3013: <p>
3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3016: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3017: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3018: </strong></font><br>
3019:
3020: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3021: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3022: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3023: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3024: problems.
3025: <p>
3026:
1.247 jufi 3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3028: <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 3029: </strong></font><br>
3030:
1.222 miod 3031: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3032: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3033: - whether they like it or not.
3034: <p>
3035:
1.247 jufi 3036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3037: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3038: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3039: </strong></font><br>
3040:
3041: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3042: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3043: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3044: <p>
1.148 aaron 3045:
1.247 jufi 3046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3047: <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 3048: </strong></font><br>
3049:
3050: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3051: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3052: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3053: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3054: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3055: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3056: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3057: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3058: <p>
3059:
1.247 jufi 3060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3061: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3062: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3063: </strong></font><br>
3064:
3065: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3066: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3067: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3068: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3069: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3070: <p>
1.247 jufi 3071: </ul>
1.147 louis 3072:
1.138 louis 3073: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3074: <ul>
1.138 louis 3075:
1.247 jufi 3076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3077: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3078: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3079: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3080: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3081: </strong></font><br>
3082:
1.227 horacio 3083: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3084: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3085: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3086: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3087: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3088: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3089: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3090: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3091: <p>
3092:
1.247 jufi 3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3094: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3095: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3096: </strong></font><br>
3097:
3098: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3099: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3100: groups, and even Linux.
3101: <p>
3102:
1.247 jufi 3103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3104: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3105: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3106: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3107: </strong></font><br>
3108:
3109: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3110: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3111: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3112: library after installing the OS.
3113: <p>
3114:
1.247 jufi 3115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3116: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3117: Sys Admin, September 2000
3118: </strong></font><br>
3119:
3120: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3121: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3122: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3123: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3124: (<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>,
3125: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3126: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3127: <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 3128: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3129: out of the system.
3130: <p>
3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3133: <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
3134: </strong></font><br>
3135:
3136: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3137: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3138: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3139: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3140: the IP filtering and address translation.
3141: <p>
1.301 jose 3142:
3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3144: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3145: </strong></font><br>
3146:
3147: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3148: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3149: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3150: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3151: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3152: <p>
1.247 jufi 3153: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3154:
1.131 louis 3155: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3156: <ul>
1.131 louis 3157:
1.247 jufi 3158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3159: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3160: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3161: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3162: </strong></font><br>
3163:
3164: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3165: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3166: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3167: <p>
3168:
1.247 jufi 3169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3170: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3171: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3172: </strong></font><br>
3173:
3174: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3175: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3176: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3177: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3178: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3179: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3180: note of"</i>.
3181: <p>
3182:
1.247 jufi 3183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3184: <a
1.247 jufi 3185: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3186: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3187: </strong></font><br>
3188:
3189: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3190: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3191: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3192: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3193: <p>
3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3196: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3197: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3198: </strong></font><br>
3199:
3200: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3201: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3202: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3203: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3204: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3205: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3206: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3207: <p>
3208:
1.247 jufi 3209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3210: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3211: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3212: 2000
3213: </strong></font><br>
3214:
3215: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3216: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3217: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3218: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3219: against current industry practices.
3220: <p>
3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3223: <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
3224: </strong></font><br>
3225:
3226: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3227: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3228: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3229: <p>
3230:
1.247 jufi 3231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3232: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3233: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3234: </strong></font><br>
3235:
3236: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3237: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3238: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3239: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3240: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3241: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3242: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3243: <p>
3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3246: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3247: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3248: </strong></font><br>
3249:
3250: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3251: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3252: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3253: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3254: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3255: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3256: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3257: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3258: <p>
1.247 jufi 3259: </ul>
1.131 louis 3260:
1.118 louis 3261: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3262: <ul>
1.118 louis 3263:
1.247 jufi 3264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3265: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3266: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3267: </strong></font><br>
3268:
3269: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3270: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3271: about time. The article mentions that
3272: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3273: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3274: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3275: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3276: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3277: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3278: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3279: <p>
3280:
1.247 jufi 3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3282: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3283: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3284: </strong></font><br>
3285:
3286: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3287: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3288: of OpenSSH.
3289: <p>
3290:
1.247 jufi 3291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3292: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3293: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3294: </strong></font><br>
3295:
3296: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3297: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3298: bridging.
3299: <p>
3300:
1.247 jufi 3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3302: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3303: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3304: </strong></font><br>
3305:
1.121 deraadt 3306: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3307: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3308: <p>
3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3311: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3312: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3313: </strong></font><br>
3314:
3315: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3316: <p>
3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3319: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3320: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3321: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3322: </strong></font><br>
3323:
1.120 deraadt 3324: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3325: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3326: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3327: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3328: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3329: <p>
3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3332: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3333: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3334: </strong></font><br>
3335:
1.222 miod 3336: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3337: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3338: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3339: protocols and their quirks.
3340: <p>
3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3343: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3344: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3345: </strong></font><br>
3346:
3347: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3348: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3349: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3350: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3351: <p>
3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3354: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3355: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3356: </strong></font><br>
3357:
3358: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3359: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3360: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3361: <p>
3362:
1.247 jufi 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3364: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3365: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3366: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3367: </strong></font><br>
3368:
3369: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3370: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3371: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3372: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3373: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3374: <p>
1.247 jufi 3375: </ul>
1.118 louis 3376:
1.104 louis 3377: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3378: <ul>
1.104 louis 3379:
1.247 jufi 3380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3381: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3382: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3383: </strong></font><br>
3384:
3385: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3386: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3387: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3388: be a bit dry.
3389: <p>
3390:
1.247 jufi 3391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3392: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3393: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3394: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3395: </strong></font><br>
3396: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3397: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3398: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3399: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3400: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3401: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3402: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3403: <p>
3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3406: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3407: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3408: 2000
1.128 louis 3409: </strong></font><br>
3410:
3411: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3412: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3413: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3414: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3415: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3416: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3417: <p>
3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3420: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3421: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3422: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3423:
3424: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3425: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3426: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3427: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3428: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3429: <p>
1.110 louis 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3432: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3433: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3434: </strong></font><br>
3435:
3436: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3437: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3438: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3439: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3440: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3441: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3442: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3443: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3444: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3445: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3446: <p>
3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3449: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3450: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3451:
3452: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3453: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3454: <p>
1.108 louis 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3457: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3458: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3459: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3460:
3461: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3462: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3463: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3464: <p>
1.106 louis 3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3467: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3468: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3469: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3470:
3471: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3472: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3473: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3474: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3475: <p>
1.107 louis 3476:
1.247 jufi 3477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3478: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3479: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3480: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3481:
3482: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3483: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3484: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3485: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3486: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3487: <p>
1.105 louis 3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3490: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3491: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3492: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3493:
1.113 naddy 3494: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3495: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3496: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3497: <p>
1.104 louis 3498:
1.247 jufi 3499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3500: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3501: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3502: </strong></font><br>
3503:
3504: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3505: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3506: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3507: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3508: <p>
1.301 jose 3509:
3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3511: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3512: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3513: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3514:
3515: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3516: hardware-supported cryptography.
3517: <p>
1.247 jufi 3518: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3519:
1.85 louis 3520: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3521: <ul>
1.85 louis 3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3524: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3525: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3526: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3527:
3528: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3529: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3530: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3531: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3532: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3533: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3534: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3535: <p>
1.99 louis 3536:
1.247 jufi 3537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3538: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3539: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3540: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3541:
3542: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3543: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3544: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3545: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3546: <p>
1.100 louis 3547:
1.247 jufi 3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3549: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3550: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3551: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3552:
3553: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3554: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3555: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3556: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3557: <p>
1.95 louis 3558:
1.247 jufi 3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3560: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3561: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3562: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3563:
3564: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3565: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3566: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3567: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3568: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3569: <p>
1.92 louis 3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3572: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3573: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3574: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3575:
3576: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3577: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3578: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3579: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3580: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3581: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3582: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3583: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3584: <p>
1.91 louis 3585:
1.247 jufi 3586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3587: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3588: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3589: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3590:
3591: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3592: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3593: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3594: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3595: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3596: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3597: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3598: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3599: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3600: <p>
1.90 louis 3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3603: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3604: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3605: </strong></font><br>
3606: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3607: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3608: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3609: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3610: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3611: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3612: <p>
3613:
1.247 jufi 3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3615: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3616: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3617: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3618:
1.113 naddy 3619: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3620: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3621: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3622: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3623: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3624: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3625: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3626: <p>
1.87 louis 3627:
1.247 jufi 3628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3629: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3630: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3631: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3632:
3633: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3634: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3635: <p>
1.85 louis 3636:
1.247 jufi 3637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3638: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3639: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3640: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3641:
3642: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3643: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3644: <p>
3645:
3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3647: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3648: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3649: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3650:
3651: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3652: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3653: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3654: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3655: <p>
1.89 louis 3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3658: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3659: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3660: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3661:
3662: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3663: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3664: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3665: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3666: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3667: </ul>
1.85 louis 3668:
1.78 deraadt 3669: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3670: <ul>
1.74 louis 3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3673: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3674: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3675: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3676: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3677:
3678: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3679: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3680: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3681: <p>
1.83 louis 3682:
1.247 jufi 3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3684: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3685: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3686: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3687:
3688: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3689: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3690: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3691: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3692: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3693: <p>
1.93 louis 3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3696: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3697: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3698: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3699: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3700:
1.83 louis 3701: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3702: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3703: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3704: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3705: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3706: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3707: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3708: <p>
1.82 aaron 3709:
1.247 jufi 3710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3711: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3712: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3713: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3714:
1.83 louis 3715: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3716: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3717: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3718: <p>
1.80 louis 3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3721: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3722: Bad Press</a>,
3723: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3724: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3725:
3726: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3727: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3728: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3729: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3730: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3731: <p>
1.247 jufi 3732: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3733:
3734: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3735: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3736:
1.247 jufi 3737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3738: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3739: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3740: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3741: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3742:
3743: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3744: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3745: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3746: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3747: <p>
1.74 louis 3748:
1.247 jufi 3749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3750: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3751: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3752: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3753:
1.219 horacio 3754: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3755: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3756: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3757: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3758: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3759: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3760: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3761: <p>
1.88 louis 3762:
1.247 jufi 3763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3764: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3765: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3766: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3767:
3768: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3769: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3770: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3771: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3772: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3773: <p>
1.81 louis 3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3776: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3777: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3778: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3779:
3780: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3781: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3782: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3783: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3784: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3785: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3786: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3787: <p>
1.90 louis 3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3790: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3791: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3792: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3793:
3794: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3795: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3796: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3797: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3798: <p>
1.247 jufi 3799: </ul>
1.71 louis 3800:
1.69 deraadt 3801: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3802: <ul>
1.70 louis 3803:
1.247 jufi 3804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3805: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3806: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3807: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3808:
3809: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3810: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3811: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3812: <p>
1.70 louis 3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3815: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3816: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3817: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3818:
3819: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3820: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3821: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3822: <p>
1.68 louis 3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3825: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3826: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3827: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3828: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3829:
1.111 jufi 3830: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3831: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3832: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3833: "secure by default" installation.
3834: <p>
1.64 louis 3835:
1.247 jufi 3836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3837: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3838: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3839: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3840:
1.113 naddy 3841: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3842: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3843: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3844: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3845: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3846: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3847: <p>
1.66 louis 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3850: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3851: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3852: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3853:
3854: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3855: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3856: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3857: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3858: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3859: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3860: <p>
1.83 louis 3861:
1.247 jufi 3862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3863: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3864: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3865: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3866:
3867: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3868: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3869: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3870: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3871: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3872: <p>
1.64 louis 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3875: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3876: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3877: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3878:
3879: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3880: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3881: <p>
1.301 jose 3882:
3883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3884: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3885: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3886: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3887: </strong></font><br>
3888:
3889: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3890: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3891: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3892: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3893: Giving way to
3894: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3895: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3896: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3897: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3898: <p>
1.247 jufi 3899: </ul>
1.65 louis 3900:
1.69 deraadt 3901: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3902: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3905: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3906: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3907: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3908:
3909: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3910: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3911: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3912: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3913: <p>
1.88 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3916: <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 3917: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3918:
3919: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3920: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3921: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3922: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3923: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3924: <p>
1.60 louis 3925:
1.247 jufi 3926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3927: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3928: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3929: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3930: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3931:
3932: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3933: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3934: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3935: <p>
1.58 louis 3936:
1.247 jufi 3937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3938: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3939: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3940:
3941: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3942: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3943: <p>
1.53 louis 3944:
1.247 jufi 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3946: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3947: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3948: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3949:
3950: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3951: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3952: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3953: <p>
1.99 louis 3954:
1.247 jufi 3955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3956: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3957: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3958:
3959: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3960: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3961: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3962: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3963: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3964:
1.247 jufi 3965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3966: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3967: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3968: </strong></font><br>
3969:
3970: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3971: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3972: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3973: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3974: <p>
3975:
1.247 jufi 3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3977: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3978: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3979: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3980:
3981: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3982: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3983: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3984:
1.247 jufi 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3986: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3987: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3988:
3989: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3990: in
1.247 jufi 3991: <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 3992: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3993: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3994: <p>
1.53 louis 3995:
1.247 jufi 3996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3997: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3998: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3999: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4000: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4001:
1.58 louis 4002: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4003: <p>
1.301 jose 4004:
4005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4006: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4007: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4008: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4009: Informacyjny, January 2000
4010: </strong></font><br>
4011:
4012: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4013: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4014: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4015: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4016: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4017: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4018: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4019: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4020: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4021: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4022: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4023: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4024: <p>
4025:
4026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4027: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4028: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4029: </strong></font><br>
4030:
4031: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4032: <p>
4033: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4034:
1.69 deraadt 4035: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4036: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4037:
1.247 jufi 4038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4039: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4040: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4041: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4042: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4043:
1.58 louis 4044: Kurt Seifried
4045: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4046: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4047: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4048: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4049:
1.247 jufi 4050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4051: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4052: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4053: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4054:
4055: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4056: <p>
1.96 louis 4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4059: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4060: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4061: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4062: </strong></font><br>
4063:
4064: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4065: <p>
4066:
4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4068: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4069: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4070: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4071:
4072: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4073: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4074: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4075: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4076: <p>
1.247 jufi 4077: </ul>
1.86 louis 4078:
1.69 deraadt 4079: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4080: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4081:
1.247 jufi 4082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4083: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4084: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4085: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4086:
4087: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4088: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4089: <p>
1.61 louis 4090:
1.247 jufi 4091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4092: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4093: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4094: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4095: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4096:
4097: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4098: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4099: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4100: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4101: right -- or at least strives to".
4102: <p>
1.48 louis 4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4105: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4106: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4107: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4108: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4109: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4110: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4111: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4112: <p>
1.61 louis 4113:
1.247 jufi 4114: <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 4115: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4116: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4117:
4118: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4119: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4120: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4121: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4122: <p>
1.46 louis 4123:
1.247 jufi 4124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4125: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4126: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4127: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4128:
4129: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4130: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4131: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4132:
1.247 jufi 4133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4134: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4135: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4136: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4137:
4138: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4139: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4140: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4141: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4142: <p>
1.247 jufi 4143: </ul>
1.70 louis 4144:
1.69 deraadt 4145: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4146: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4149: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4150: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4151: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4152: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4153:
4154: Kurt Seifried
4155: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4156: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4157: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4158: <p>
1.44 philen 4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <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 4161: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4162: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4163:
4164: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4165: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4166:
1.247 jufi 4167: <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 4168: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4169: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4170:
4171: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4172: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <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 4175: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4176: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4177:
4178: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4179: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4180: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4181: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4182: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4183:
1.247 jufi 4184: <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 4185: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4186: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4187:
1.36 louis 4188: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4189: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4190:
1.247 jufi 4191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4192: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4193: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4194: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4195:
4196: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4197: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4198: </ul>
1.38 louis 4199:
1.69 deraadt 4200: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4201: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4202:
1.247 jufi 4203: <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 4204: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4205: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4206:
4207: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4208: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4209: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4210:
1.113 naddy 4211: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4212: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4213: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4214: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4215:
4216: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4217: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4218: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4219: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4220: <blockquote>
4221: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4222: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4223: <br>
4224: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4225: </code>
4226: </blockquote>
4227: <p>
4228:
1.247 jufi 4229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4230: <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 4231: <p>
4232:
4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4234: <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 4235: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4236:
4237: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4238: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4239: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4240: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4241:
1.247 jufi 4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4243: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4244: Sept. 28, 1999
4245: </strong></font><br>
4246:
4247: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4248: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4249: translating and reprinting articles from
4250: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4251: <p>
4252:
4253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4254: <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 4255: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4256:
4257: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4258: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4259: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4260: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4261: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4262: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4263: <p>
1.19 louis 4264:
1.113 naddy 4265: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4266: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4267: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4268:
4269: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4270: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4271: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4272: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4273: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4274: <p>
1.16 louis 4275:
1.247 jufi 4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4277: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4278: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4279: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4280:
1.57 louis 4281: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4282: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4283: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4284: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4285:
1.247 jufi 4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4287: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4288: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4289: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4290:
1.113 naddy 4291: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4292:
1.247 jufi 4293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4294: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4295: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4296: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4297:
1.23 louis 4298: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4299: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4300: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4301: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4302: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4303: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4304:
1.247 jufi 4305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4306: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4307: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4308: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4309:
1.199 pvalchev 4310: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4311: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4312: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4313: installation.
1.113 naddy 4314: <p>
1.47 louis 4315:
1.247 jufi 4316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4317: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4318: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4319: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4320:
1.301 jose 4321: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4322: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4323: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4324: </ul>
1.57 louis 4325:
1.69 deraadt 4326: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4327: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4328:
1.247 jufi 4329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4330: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4331: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4332: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4333:
4334: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4335: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4336: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4337: <p>
1.12 louis 4338:
1.247 jufi 4339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4340: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4341: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4342: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4343:
4344: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4345: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4346: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4347: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4348: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4349: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4350: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4351: <p>
1.247 jufi 4352: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4353:
1.69 deraadt 4354: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4355: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4358: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4359: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4360:
4361: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4362: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4363: available."
1.113 naddy 4364: <p>
1.301 jose 4365:
4366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4367: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4368: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4369: </strong></font><br>
4370:
4371: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4372: <p>
1.247 jufi 4373: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4374:
1.69 deraadt 4375: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4376: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4379: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4380: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4381:
4382: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4383: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4384: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4385: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4386: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4387: <p>
1.33 louis 4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4390: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4391: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4392: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4393:
1.113 naddy 4394: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4395: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4396: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4397: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4398: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4399: <p>
1.247 jufi 4400: </ul>
1.57 louis 4401:
1.69 deraadt 4402: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4403: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4404:
1.247 jufi 4405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4406: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4407: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4408: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4409:
4410: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4411: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4412: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4413:
1.247 jufi 4414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4415: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4416: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4417: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4418: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4419:
4420: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4421: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4422:
1.247 jufi 4423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4424: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4425:
1.113 naddy 4426: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4427:
1.247 jufi 4428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4429: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4430: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4431: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4432:
4433: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4434: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4435: </ul>
1.23 louis 4436:
1.69 deraadt 4437: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4438: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4439:
1.247 jufi 4440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4441: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4442: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4443:
4444: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4445: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4446: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4447:
1.247 jufi 4448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4449: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4450: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4451: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4452:
4453: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4454: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4455: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4456: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4457: </ul>
1.57 louis 4458:
1.69 deraadt 4459: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4460: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4461:
1.247 jufi 4462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4463: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4464: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4465: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4466:
4467: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4468: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4469: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4470: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4471: <p>
1.15 louis 4472:
1.247 jufi 4473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4474: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4475: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4476: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4477:
4478: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4479: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4480: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4481: columns."
1.113 naddy 4482: <p>
1.247 jufi 4483: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4484:
1.69 deraadt 4485: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4486: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4487:
1.247 jufi 4488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4489: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4490: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4491: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4492:
4493: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4494: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4495:
1.113 naddy 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4497: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4498: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4499:
4500: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4501: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4502: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4503: </ul>
1.57 louis 4504:
1.69 deraadt 4505: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4506: <ul>
1.301 jose 4507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4508: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4509: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4510: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4511:
4512: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4513: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4514: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4515: <p>
4516:
4517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4518: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4519: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4520: Nov 13, 1998 and
4521: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4522: Datateknik</a>,
4523: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4524:
1.380 saad 4525: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4526: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4527: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4528: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4529: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4530:
1.113 naddy 4531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4532: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4533: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4534: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4535:
1.222 miod 4536: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4537: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4538: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4539: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4540: <p>
1.247 jufi 4541: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4542:
1.69 deraadt 4543: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4544: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4545:
1.247 jufi 4546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4547: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4548: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4549:
1.69 deraadt 4550: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4551: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4552: <p>
1.247 jufi 4553: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4554:
1.69 deraadt 4555: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4556: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4557:
1.247 jufi 4558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4559: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4560: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4561: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4562:
1.383 jcs 4563: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4564: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4565: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4566:
1.247 jufi 4567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4568: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4569: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4570: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4571: <p>
1.247 jufi 4572: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4573:
1.69 deraadt 4574: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4575: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4576:
1.247 jufi 4577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4578: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4579: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4580: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4581: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4582: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4583:
4584: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4585: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4586: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4587: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4588: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4589: <p>
1.247 jufi 4590: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4591:
4592: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4593: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4596: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4597: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4598:
1.69 deraadt 4599: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4600: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4601: <p>
1.112 naddy 4602:
1.247 jufi 4603: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4604: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4605:
1.292 camield 4606: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4607: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4608: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.438 ! martin 4609: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.437 2005/04/08 17:18:37 deraadt Exp $</small>
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