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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>
1.440 ! ian 22: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
! 23: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
! 24: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 25: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
! 26: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
! 27: than closed source, as we have long contended.
! 28: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
! 29: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
! 30: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
! 31: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
! 32: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
! 33: <p>
! 34: This article can also be found online as
! 35: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
! 36: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
! 37: <p>
! 38:
! 39: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 40: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
41: </strong></font><br>
42: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
43: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
44: <p>
45:
46: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 47: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
48: </strong></font><br>
49: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
50: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 51: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 52: the issues we had with IETF.
53: </ul>
54:
1.431 ian 55: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
56: <ul>
57: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 58: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
59: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
60: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
61: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
62: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
63: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
64: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 68: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
69: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
70: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
71: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
72: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
73: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 74: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 75: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
76: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
77: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
78: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
79: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
80: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
81: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
82: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
83:
84: </ul>
85:
1.427 matthieu 86: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
87: <ul>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 90: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
91: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
92: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
93: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
94: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
95: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
96: firmware.
1.434 ian 97: Similar articles can be found online at:
98: <ul>
99: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
100: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
101: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
102: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
104: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
105: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
106: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
108: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
109: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
110: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
112: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
113: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
114: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
115: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 116: </ul>
117:
1.426 ian 118: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
119: <ul>
120:
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
122: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
123: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
124: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
125: This article talks about our systrace
126: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
127: mechanism: what it is and why and
128: how to use it, with examples.
129: Another excerpt from the book
130: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
131: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
132: <p>
133:
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
135: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
136: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
137: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
138: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
139: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
140: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
141: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
142: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
143: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
144: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
145: This article is a sample chapter from
146: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
147: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
148: <p>
149: </ul>
150:
1.424 ian 151: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
152: <ul>
153:
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 155: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
156: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
157: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
158: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
159: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
160: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
161: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
162: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
163: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
164: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
165: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
166: <p>
167: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
168: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
169: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
170: <p>
171:
172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 173: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
174: Closed Source Hardware</a>
175: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
176: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
177: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
178: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
179: operating systems.
180: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
181: OpenBSD on his firewall.
182: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
183: systems, he writes:
184: <blockquote>
185: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
186: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
187: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
188: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
189: to the operating system...
190: <br/>
191: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
192: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
193: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
194: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
195: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
196: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
197: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
198: in a closed source operating system).
199: <br/>
200: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
201: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
202: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
203: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
204: </blockquote>
205: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
206: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
207: their hardware and software operates.
208: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
209: reverse-engineering the
210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
211: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
212: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
213: <p>
214: </ul>
215:
1.417 pvalchev 216: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
217: <ul>
1.421 ian 218:
1.417 pvalchev 219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 220: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
221: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
222: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
223: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
224: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
225: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
226: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
227: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
228: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
229: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
230: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 231: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 232: <p>
233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 234: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
235: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
236: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
237: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
238: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
239: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
240: it claims to do".
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 244: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
245: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
246: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
247: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
248: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 249: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 250: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
251: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
252: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
253: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
254: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
255: (yes, this is a hint).
256: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
257: picked up on the
258: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
259: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
260: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
261: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
262: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
263: <p>
264:
265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 266: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
267: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
268: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
269: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
270: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
271: questions about the significance and rationale behind
272: the current efforts.
273: <p>
274: </ul>
275:
1.407 henning 276: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
277: <ul>
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 279: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
280: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
281: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
282: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
283: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
284: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
285: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
286: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 290: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
291: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
292: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
293: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
294: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
295: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
296: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
297: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
298: of the important changes in 3.6.
299: </p>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 302: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
303: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
304: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
305: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
306: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
307: overflow attacks... because
308: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
309: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
310: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
311: and propolice.
312: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
313: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
314: and that's when the science falls apart."
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 318: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
319: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
320: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
321: Starts with the question:
322: <blockquote>
323: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
324: <br/>
325: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
326: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
327: <br/>
328: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
329: Should we believe them?"
330: </blockquote>
331: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
332: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
333: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
334: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
335: for your mail, web and other online activities.
336: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 340: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
341: Simple Simon</a>,
342: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
343: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
344: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
345: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
346: routing/firewall, and more.
347: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
348: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
349: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
350: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
351: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
352: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
353: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
354: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
355: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
356: </blockquote>
357: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
358: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
359: <p>
360:
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 362: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
363: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 364: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 365: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 366: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
367: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
368: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 369: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 370: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
371: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
372: in spite of it
373: (registration required, but worth it).
374: <p>
375:
376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
377: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
378: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
379: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
380: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
381: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
382: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
383: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 384: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 385: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
386: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
387: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
388: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 392: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
393: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
394: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
395: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
396: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
397: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
398: <blockquote>
399: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
400: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
401: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
402: a lot of analysis.
403: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
404: </blockquote>
405: <p>
406: </ul>
407:
1.400 marco 408: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
409: <ul>
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 411: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
412: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
413: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
414: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
415: UNIX-like systems.
416: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
417: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
418: <p>
419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 420: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
421: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 422: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
423: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
424: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
425: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
426: At one point, the article states:
427: <blockquote>
428: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
429: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
430: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
431: </blockquote>
432: And then quotes Theo as saying:
433: <blockquote>
434: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
435: fewer are reading or auditing code."
436: </blockquote>
437: <p>
438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
439: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
440: marks its fifth birthday</a>
441: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
442: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
443: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
444: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
445: required).
446: <p>
447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 448: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
449: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
450: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
451: </strong></font><br>
452: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
453: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
454: <p>
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 456: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
457: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 458: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 459: </strong></font><br>
460: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
461: <p>
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 463: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
464: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 465: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 466: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 467: 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 468: <p>
469: </ul>
470:
1.396 henning 471: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
472: <ul>
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 474: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
475: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
476: Unix Review, July, 2004
477: </strong></font><br>
478: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
479: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
480: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
481: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
482: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
483: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
484: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
485: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
486: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
487: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
488: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
489: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
490: and even spelling/wording errors.
491: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
492: <p>
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 494: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 495: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
496: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
497: </strong></font><br>
498: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
499: <p>
500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 501: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 502: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
503: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
504: </strong></font><br>
505: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
506: <p>
507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 508: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
509: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
510: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
511: </strong></font><br>
512: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
513: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
514: <p>
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 516: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
517: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
518: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
519: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
520: <p>
521: </ul>
522:
1.405 jolan 523: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
524: <ul>
525: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
526: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
527: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
528: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
529: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
530: details on how funds are dispersed.
531: <p>
532: </ul>
533:
1.393 david 534: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
535: <ul>
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 537: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
538: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
539: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
540: </strong></font><br>
541: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
542: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
543: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
544: on inserting large number of SQL records.
545: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
546: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
547: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
548: <p>
549:
550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 551: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
552: Secure by Default</a>,
553: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
554: </strong></font><br>
555: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
556: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
557: <p>
558:
559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
560: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
561: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
562: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
563: </strong></font><br>
564: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
565: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
566: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
567: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
568: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
569: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
570: <p>
571:
572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
573: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
574: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
575: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
576: </strong></font><br>
577: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
578: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
579: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
580: <p>
581:
582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
583: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
584: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
585: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
586: </strong></font><br>
587: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
588: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
589: <p>
590: </ul>
591:
1.388 mcbride 592: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
593: <ul>
1.394 jolan 594:
595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
596: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
597: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
598: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
599: </strong></font><br>
600: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
601: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
602: available for sparc64.
603: <p>
604:
1.390 beck 605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 606: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
607: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
608: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
609: </strong></font><br>
610: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
611: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
612: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
613: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
614: <p>
615:
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 617: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
618: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 619: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 620: </strong></font><br>
621: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
622: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
623: it does: CARP provides sharing
624: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
625: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
626: detail to get you started using it.
627: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
628: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
629: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
630: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
631: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
632: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
633: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 634: <p>
1.391 ian 635:
636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 637: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 638: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
639: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 640: </strong></font><br>
641: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 642: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 643: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 644: <p>
1.388 mcbride 645:
646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
647: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
648: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 649: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 650: </strong></font><br>
651: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
652: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
653: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
654: unencumbered by patents.
655: <p>
656: </ul>
657:
1.378 henning 658: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
659: <ul>
1.384 jose 660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 662: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
663: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
664: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
665: </strong></font><br>
666: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
667: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
668: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
669: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
670: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
671: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
672: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
673: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
674: in the page tables."
675: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
676: <p>
677:
678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 679: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
680: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
681: </strong></font><br>
682: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
683: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
684: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
685: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 686: <p>
1.384 jose 687:
1.378 henning 688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 689: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
690: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 691: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
692: </strong></font><br>
693: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
694: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
695: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
696: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
697: (quote:
698: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
699: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 700: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 701: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
702: the other developers for their work on the system.
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 706: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
707: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
708: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 709: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 710: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
711: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
712: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
713: too.
714: <p>
715:
716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 717: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
718: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 719: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 720: OpenBSD source code using
721: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
722: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
723: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
724: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
725: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
726: <p>
727: </ul>
728:
1.374 jose 729: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
730: <ul>
731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 732: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 733: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
734: </strong></font><br>
735: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
736: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
737: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
738: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
739: it."
740: <p>
741:
742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 743: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
744: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
745: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
746: </strong></font><br/>
747: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
748: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
749: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
750: <p>
751: </ul>
752:
1.369 ian 753: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
754: <ul>
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 756: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
757: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
758: </strong></font><br/>
759: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
760: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
761: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
762: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 766: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
767: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
768: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
769: </strong></font><br/>
770: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
771: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
772: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
773: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
774: form factor.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
778: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
779: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
780: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
781: Features</a>,
782: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
783: </strong></font><br/>
784: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
785: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
786: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
787: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
788: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
789: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
790: <p>
791: This article can also be found online at:
792: <ul>
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 794: <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 795: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
796: </strong></font>
797: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
798: </ul>
799: <p>
1.392 david 800:
1.371 jose 801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 802: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
803: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 804: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
805: </strong></font><br/>
806: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
807: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
808: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 809: <p>
1.371 jose 810:
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 812: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 813: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 814: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 815: </strong></font><br/>
816: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
817: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
818: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
819: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
820: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
821: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
822: and its history with OpenBSD.
823: </ul>
824:
1.368 henning 825: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
826: <ul>
827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 828: [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 829: </strong></font><br>
830: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
831: </ul>
832:
1.364 jose 833: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
834: <ul>
835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 836: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
837: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
838: UNIX Review,
839: July, 2003.
840: </strong></font><br>
841: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
842: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
843: who want more information.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 847: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
848: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
849: Government Computer News,
850: July 22, 2003.
851: </strong></font><br>
852: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
853: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
854: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
855: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
859: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
860: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
861: SANS Institute,
862: July 22, 2003.
863: </strong></font><br>
864: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 865: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 866: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
867: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
868: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
869: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
870: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
871: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
872: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
873: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
874: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
875: <p>
876:
877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 878: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
879: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
880: OnLamp.com,
881: July 17, 2003.
882: </strong></font><br>
883: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
884: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
885: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
886: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
887: have been working on.
888:
889: </ul>
890:
1.356 jose 891: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 892: <ul>
893:
894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 895: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
896: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
897: UNIX Review,
898: June, 2003.
899: </strong></font><br>
900: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
901: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
902: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
903: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
904: <p>
905:
906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 907: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
908: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
909: eWeek,
910: June 23, 2003.
911: </strong></font><br>
912: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
913: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
914: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
915: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
916: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
917: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 921: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
922: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
923: Software Development Online,
924: June, 2003.
925: </strong></font><br>
926: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
927: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
928: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
929: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
930: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
931: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
932: current activities.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 936: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
937: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 938: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
939: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
940: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
941: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 942: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 943: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
944: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
945: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 946: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 947: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
948: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 949: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 950: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
951: decisions.
952: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
953: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 954: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 955: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 956: <p>
957:
958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 959: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
960: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
961: Page 58, eWeek,
962: June 2, 2003.
963: </strong></font><br>
964: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
965: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
966: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
967: been addressed in -current.
968: <p>
969:
1.356 jose 970: </ul>
971:
972: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
973: <ul>
974:
1.355 jose 975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 976: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
977: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
978: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
979: </strong></font><br>
980: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
981: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
982: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
983: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
984: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
985: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
986: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
987: <p>
988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 990: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
991: Beyond Linux</a>,
992: InfoWorld,
993: May 23, 2003.
994: </strong></font><br>
995: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
996: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
997: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
998: compared to the GPL.
999: <p>
1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1002: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1003: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1004: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1005: May 17, 2003.
1006: </strong></font><br>
1007: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1008: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1009: the business section and half of another page inside
1010: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1011: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1012: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1013: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1014: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1015: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1016: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1017: <br>
1018: This article can also be found online at:
1019: <ul>
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1021: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1022: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1023: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1024: May 17, 2003
1025: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1026: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1028: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1029: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1030: Montreal Gazette,
1031: May 21, 2003
1032: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1033: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1034: <p>
1.346 ian 1035:
1036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1037: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1038: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1039: May 7, 2003.
1040: </strong></font><br>
1041: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1042: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1043: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1047: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1048: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1049: OsOpinion,
1050: May 6, 2003.
1051: </strong></font><br>
1052: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1053: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1054: <br>
1055: This article can also be found online at:
1056: <ul>
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1058: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1059: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1060: NewsFactor Network.
1061: </strong></font>
1062: </ul>
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1066: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1067: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1068: ITBusiness,
1069: May 2, 2003.
1070: </strong></font><br>
1071: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1072: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1073: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1074: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1078: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1079: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1080: InfoWorld,
1081: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1082: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1083: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1084: <br>
1085: This article can also be found online at:
1086: <ul>
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1088: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1089: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1090: IDG Singapore.
1091: </strong></font>
1092: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1093: <p>
1094:
1.339 jose 1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1096: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1097: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1098: ZDNet,
1099: May 1, 2003.
1100: </strong></font><br>
1101: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1102: someone using parts from previous articles.
1103: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1104: This article can also be found online at:
1105: <ul>
1106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1107: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1108: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1109: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1110: </strong></font>
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1112: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1113: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1114: CNET News.com.
1115: </strong></font>
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1117: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1118: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1119: ZDNet UK.
1120: </strong></font>
1121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1122: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1123: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1124: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1125: </strong></font>
1126: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1127: <p>
1.339 jose 1128:
1.341 deraadt 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1130: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1131: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1132: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1133: May 1, 2003.
1134: </strong></font><br>
1135: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1136: that have been added
1137: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1138: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1139: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1140: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1141: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1142: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1143: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1144: <p>
1145:
1146: </ul>
1147:
1.253 ian 1148: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1149: <ul>
1.255 ian 1150:
1.260 ian 1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1152: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1153: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1154: TechRepublic,
1155: April 28, 2003.
1156: </strong></font><br>
1157: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1158: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1159: work.<br>
1160: Can also be found online at:
1161: <ul>
1162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1163: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1164: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1165: ZDNet UK.
1166: </strong></font>
1167: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1168: <p>
1169:
1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1171: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1172: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1173: IDG,
1174: April 24, 2003.
1175: </strong></font><br>
1176: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1177: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1178: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1179: Can also be found online at:
1180: <ul>
1181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1182: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1183: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1184: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1185: </strong></font>
1186: </ul>
1187: <p>
1188:
1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1190: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1191: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1192: Slate,
1193: April 24, 2003.
1194: </strong></font><br>
1195: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1196: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1197: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1198: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1199: <p>
1200:
1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1202: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1203: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1204: April 24, 2003.
1205: </strong></font><br>
1206: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1207: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1208: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1209: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1210: <p>
1211:
1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1213: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1214: April 24, 2003.
1215: </strong></font><br>
1216: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1217: the free software community".
1218: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1219: other articles.
1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1223: <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 1224: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1225: </strong></font><br>
1226: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1227: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1228: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1229: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1230: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1231: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1232: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1233: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1234: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1235: <br/>
1236: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1237: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1238: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1239: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1240: <br>
1241: Can also be found online at:
1242: <ul>
1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1244: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1245: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1246: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1247: </strong></font>
1248: </ul>
1.324 ian 1249: <p>
1250:
1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1252: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1253: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1254: </strong></font><br>
1255: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1256: article above.
1257: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1258: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1259: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1260: <br>
1261: Can also be found online at:
1262: <ul>
1263: <li>
1264: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1265: </strong></font>
1266: </ul>
1.324 ian 1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1270: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1271: </strong></font><br>
1272: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1276: <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.
1277: </strong></font><br>
1278: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1279: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1280: <p>
1281:
1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1283: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1284: April 23, 2003.
1285: </strong></font><br>
1286: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1287: <p>
1288:
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1290: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1291: April 22, 2003.
1292: </strong></font><br>
1293: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1294: <p>
1295:
1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1297: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1298: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1299: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1300: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1301: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1302: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1303: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1304: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1305: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1306: Can also be found online at:
1307: <ul>
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1309: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1310: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1311: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1312: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1314: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1315: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1316: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1317: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1318: </ul>
1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1322: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1323: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1324: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1325: </strong></font><br>
1326: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1327: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1328: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1329: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1330: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1331: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1332: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1333: <p>
1334:
1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1336: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1337: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1338: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1339: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1340: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1341: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1342: at UPenn and DARPA.
1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1346: [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,
1347: France
1.315 deraadt 1348: April 18, 2003.
1349: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1350: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1351: <p>
1352:
1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1354: [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 1355: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1356: </strong></font><br>
1357: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1358: <p>
1359:
1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1361: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1362: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1363: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1364: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1365: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1366: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1367: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1368: <p>
1369:
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1371: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1372: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1373: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1374: </strong></font><br>
1375: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1376: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1377: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1378: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1379: <p>
1380:
1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1382: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1383: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1384: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1385: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1386: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1387: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1388: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1389: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1390: Can also be found online at:
1391: <ul>
1392: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1393: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1394: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1395: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1396: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1400: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1401: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1402: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1403: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1406: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1407: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1408: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1409: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1412: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1413: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1414: New York Times.
1415: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1416:
1.273 deraadt 1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1418: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1419: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1420: ABC News.
1421: </strong></font>
1422:
1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1424: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1425: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1426: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1427: </strong></font>
1428:
1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1430: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1431: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1432: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1433: </strong></font>
1434:
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1436: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1437: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1438: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1439: </strong></font>
1440:
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1442: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1443: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1444: Times Daily, AL.
1445: </strong></font>
1446:
1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1448: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1449: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1450: Boston.com, MA.
1451: </strong></font>
1452:
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1454: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1455: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1456: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1457: </strong></font>
1458:
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1460: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1461: [Article was pulled]</a>
1462: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1463: </strong></font>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1466: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1467: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1468: Infoshop News.
1469: </strong></font>
1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1472: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1473: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1474: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1475: </strong></font>
1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1478: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1479: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1480: Raleigh News, NC.
1481: </strong></font>
1482:
1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1484: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1485: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1486: Napa News, CA.
1487: </strong></font>
1488:
1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1490: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1491: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1492: NEPA News, PA.
1493: </strong></font>
1494:
1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1496: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1497: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1498: Wired News.
1499: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1500: <br>
1501: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1502: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1503: [JAPANESE]
1504: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1505: Wired News Japan</a>
1506: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1507:
1.271 deraadt 1508: </ul>
1509: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1510: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1511: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1512: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1513: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1514: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1515: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1516: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1517: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1518: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1519: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1520: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1521: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1522: <p>
1523: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1524:
1525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1526: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1527: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1528: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1529: </strong></font>
1530:
1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1532: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1533: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1534: Miami Herald, FL.
1535: </strong></font>
1536:
1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1538: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1539: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1540: </strong></font>
1541:
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1543: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1544: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1545: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1546: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1547:
1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1549: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1550: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1551: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1552: ABC News.
1553: </strong></font>
1554:
1.276 deraadt 1555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1556: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1557: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1558: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1559: </strong></font>
1560:
1.286 dhartmei 1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1562: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1563: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1564: Wilmington Star, NC.
1565: </strong></font>
1566:
1.300 jose 1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1568: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1569: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1570: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1571: </strong></font>
1572:
1.309 jose 1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1574: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1575: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1576: Globe Technology.
1577: </strong></font>
1578:
1.263 deraadt 1579: </ul>
1.262 beck 1580: <p>
1581:
1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1583: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1584: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1585: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1587: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1588: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1589: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1590: <p>
1591:
1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1593: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1594: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1595: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1596: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1597: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1598: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1599: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1600: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1601: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1602: and simply restates other press reports.
1603: <p>
1604:
1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1606: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1607: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1608: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1611: <p>
1612:
1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1614: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1615: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1616: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1617: </strong></font><br>
1618: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1619: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1620: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1621: <p>
1622:
1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1624: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1625: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1626: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1627: April 17, 2003.
1628: </strong></font><br>
1629: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1630: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1631: Tech Anthems</a>
1632: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1633: 4 so far.
1634: <p>
1635:
1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1637: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1638: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1639: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1640: </strong></font><br>
1641: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1642: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1643: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1644: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1645: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1646: Goes on to say:
1647: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1648: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1649: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1650: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1651: This article is also found online at:
1652: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1654: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1655: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1656: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1657: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1659: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1660: ZDnet</a>,
1661: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1662: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1664: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1665: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1666: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1667: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1668: </ul>
1.260 ian 1669: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1670:
1.260 ian 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1672: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1673: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1674: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1675: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1676: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1677: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1678: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1679: without notice or justification.
1680: <p>
1681:
1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1683: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1684: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1685: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1686: </strong></font><br>
1687: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1688: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1689: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1690: effective today, without any warning..."
1691: <p>
1.257 ian 1692:
1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1694: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1695: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1696: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1697: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1698: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1699: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1700: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1701: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1702: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1703: <p>
1704:
1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1706: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1707: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1708: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1709: </strong></font><br>
1710: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1711: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1712: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1713: quoting two of them:
1714: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1715: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1716: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1717: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1718: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1719: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1720: <p>
1721:
1.255 ian 1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1723: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1724: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1725: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1726: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1727: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1728: <p>
1729:
1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1731: [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 1732: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1733: </strong></font><br>
1734: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1735: <p>
1736:
1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1738: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1739: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1740: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1741: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1742: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1743: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1744: security experts for more than three decades."
1745: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1746: <p>
1.261 ian 1747:
1.254 drahn 1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1749: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1750: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1751: </strong></font><br>
1752: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1756: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1757: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1758: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1759: </strong></font><br>
1760: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1761: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1762: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1763: <p>
1764:
1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1766: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1767: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1768: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1769: </strong></font><br>
1770: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1771: from US DARPA.
1772: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1773: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1774: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1775: the BSD license.
1776: <p>
1777: </ul>
1778:
1.251 ian 1779: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1780: <ul>
1781:
1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1783: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1784: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1785: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1786: </strong></font><br>
1787:
1788: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1789: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1790: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1791: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1792: <p>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1795: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1796: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1797: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1798: </strong></font><br>
1799: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1800: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1801: Mentions
1802: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1803: and
1804: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1805: programs.
1806: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1807: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1808: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1809: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1810: <p>
1.325 ian 1811: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1812: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1813:
1814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1815: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1816: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1817: </strong></font><br>
1818: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1819: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1820: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1821: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1822: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1823: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1824: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1825: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1826: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1827: put into service."
1828: <p>
1829: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1830: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1831: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1832: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1833: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1834: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1835: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1836: computers with security features."
1837: <p>
1.329 ian 1838:
1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1840: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1841: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1842: Slate,
1843: March 3, 2003.
1844: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1845: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1846: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1847: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1848: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1849: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1850: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1851: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1852: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1853: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1854: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1855: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1856: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1857: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1858: of more secure open-source solutions like
1859: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1860: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1861: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1862: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1863: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1864: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1865: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1866: the Beltway."
1867: <p>
1.251 ian 1868: </ul>
1869:
1.249 jufi 1870: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1871: <ul>
1872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1873: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1874: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1875: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1876: </strong></font><br>
1877: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1878: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1879: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1880: <p>
1.334 ian 1881:
1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1883: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1884: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1885: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1886: </strong></font><br>
1887: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1888: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1889: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1890: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1891: "... the hypothetical question ...
1892: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1893: <br>
1894: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1895: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1896: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1897: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1898: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1899: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1900: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1901: support network security.
1902: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1903: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1904: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1905: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1906: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1907: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1908: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1909: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1910: <br>
1911: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1912: <p>
1913:
1.249 jufi 1914: </ul>
1915:
1.246 jufi 1916: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1917: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1918:
1.247 jufi 1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1920: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1921: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1922: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1923: </strong></font><br>
1924: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1925: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1926: <p>
1927:
1.247 jufi 1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1929: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1930: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1931: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1932: </strong></font><br>
1933: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1934: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1935: <p>
1936:
1937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1938: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1939: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1940: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1941: </strong></font><br>
1942: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1943: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1944: <p>
1.247 jufi 1945: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1946:
1.244 jufi 1947: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1948: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1949:
1.247 jufi 1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1951: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1952: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1953: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1954: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1955: </strong></font><br>
1956: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1957: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1958: md5 digests.
1959: <p>
1960:
1.247 jufi 1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1962: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1963: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1964: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1965: </strong></font><br>
1966: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1967: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1968: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1969: right the first time."
1970: <p>
1.247 jufi 1971: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1972:
1973:
1974: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1975: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1976:
1.247 jufi 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1978: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1979: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1980: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1981: </strong></font><br>
1982: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1983: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1984: part 6</a>.
1985: <p>
1986:
1.247 jufi 1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1988: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 1989: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
1990: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1991: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1992: </strong></font><br>
1993: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1994: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1995: <p>
1.301 jose 1996:
1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1998: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1999: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2000: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2001: </strong></font><br>
2002:
2003: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2004: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2005: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2006: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2007: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2008: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2009: <i>Here's the
2010: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2011: <p>
1.247 jufi 2012: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2013:
2014: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2015: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2016:
1.247 jufi 2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2018: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2019: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2020: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2021: </strong></font><br>
2022: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2023: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2024: <p>
2025:
1.247 jufi 2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2027: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2028: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2029: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2030: </strong></font><br>
2031: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2032: this time using pf.
2033: <p>
1.247 jufi 2034: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2035:
2036: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2037: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2038:
1.247 jufi 2039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2040: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2041: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2042: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2043: </strong></font><br>
2044: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2045: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2046: their rotation.
2047: <p>
2048:
1.247 jufi 2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2050: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2051: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2052: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2053: </strong></font><br>
2054: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2055: <p>
1.247 jufi 2056: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2057:
1.239 jufi 2058: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2059: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2062: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2063: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2064: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2065: </strong></font><br>
2066: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2067: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2068: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2069: <p>
2070:
1.247 jufi 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2072: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2073: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2074: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2075: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2076: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2077: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2078: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2079: <p>
1.247 jufi 2080: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2081:
1.235 lebel 2082: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2083: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2084:
1.239 jufi 2085:
1.247 jufi 2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2087: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2088: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2089: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2090: </strong></font><br>
2091: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2092: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2093: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2094: <p>
1.301 jose 2095:
1.247 jufi 2096: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2097:
1.228 horacio 2098: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2099: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2100:
1.247 jufi 2101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2102: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2103: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2104: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2105: </strong></font><br>
2106: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2107: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2108: <p>
2109:
1.247 jufi 2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2111: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2112: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2113: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2114: </strong></font><br>
2115: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2116: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2117: <p>
2118:
1.247 jufi 2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2120: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2121: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2122: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2123: </strong></font><br>
2124: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2125: on the desktop of his parents.
2126: <p>
2127:
1.247 jufi 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2129: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2130: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2131: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2132: </strong></font><br>
2133: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2134: using IPFilter.
2135:
2136: <p>
2137:
1.247 jufi 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2139: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2140: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2141: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2142: </strong></font><br>
2143: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2144: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2145: perspectives of the four OS.
2146: <br>
2147: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2148: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2149: <p>
2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2152: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2153: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2154: software and security</a>,
2155: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2156: </strong></font><br>
2157:
2158: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2159: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2160: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2161: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2162: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2163: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2164: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2165: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2166: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2167: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2168: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2169: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2170: <p>
1.247 jufi 2171: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2172:
1.225 horacio 2173: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2174: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2177: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2178: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2179: Interview</a>,
2180: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2181: </strong></font><br>
2182:
2183: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2184: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2185: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2186: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2187: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2188: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2189: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2190: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2191: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2192: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2193: of choice.
2194: <p>
1.247 jufi 2195: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2196:
2197: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2198: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2201: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2202: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2203: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2204: </strong></font><br>
2205:
2206: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2207: <p>
2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2210: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2211: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2212: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2213: </strong></font><br>
2214:
2215: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2216: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2217: <p>
1.247 jufi 2218: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2219:
1.218 horacio 2220: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2221: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2224: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2225: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2226: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2227: </strong></font><br>
2228:
2229: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2230: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2231: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2232: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2233: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2234: subjects. Worth a read.
2235: <p>
2236:
2237:
1.247 jufi 2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2239: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2240: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2241: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2242: </strong></font><br>
2243:
2244: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2245: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2246: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2247: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2248: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2249: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2250: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2251: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2252: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2253: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2254: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2255: on other operating systems.<br>
2256: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2257: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2258: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2259: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2260: <p>
2261:
1.247 jufi 2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2263: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2264: Operating System 2010</a>,
2265: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2266: </strong></font><br>
2267:
2268: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2269: covering the level of software integration into the core
2270: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2271: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2272: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2273: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2274: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2275: <p>
2276:
1.247 jufi 2277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2278: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2279: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2280: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2281: </strong></font><br>
2282:
2283: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2284: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2285: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2286: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2287: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2288: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2289: <p>
1.247 jufi 2290: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2291:
1.210 jufi 2292: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2293: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2294:
1.247 jufi 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2296: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2297: Already a Contender</a>,
2298: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2299: </strong></font><br>
2300:
2301: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2302: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2303: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2304: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2305: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2306: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2307: <p>
2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2310: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2311: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2312: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2313: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2314:
1.224 horacio 2315: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2316: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2317: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2318: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2319: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2320: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2321: <p>
1.247 jufi 2322: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2323:
2324: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2325: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2326:
1.247 jufi 2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2328: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2329: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2330: Division</a>,
2331: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2332: </strong></font><br>
2333:
2334: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2335: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2336: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2337: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2338: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2339: investment</em>.<br>
2340: The implementation details can be seen on their
2341: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2342: <p>
2343:
1.247 jufi 2344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2345: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2346: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2347: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2348: </strong></font><br>
2349:
2350: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2351: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2352: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2353: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2354: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2355: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2356: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2357: <p>
2358:
2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2360: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2361: Thinking about Security</a>,
2362: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2363: </strong></font><br>
2364:
2365: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2366: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2367: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2368: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2369: to time.<br>
2370: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2371: system and just the most secure system.
2372: <p>
2373:
1.247 jufi 2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2375: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2376: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2377: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2378: </strong></font><br>
2379:
2380: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2381: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2382: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2383: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2384: choice:<br>
2385: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2386: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2387: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2388: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2389: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2390: network security devices and as such must be well
2391: armored."</em><br>
2392: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2393: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2394: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2395: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2396: <br>
2397: Bravo!
2398: <p>
1.247 jufi 2399: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2400:
1.207 ian 2401: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2402: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2403:
1.247 jufi 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2405: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2406: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2407: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2408:
1.207 ian 2409: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2410: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2411: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2412: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2413: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2414: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2415: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2416: <p>
1.247 jufi 2417: </ul>
1.207 ian 2418:
1.194 jufi 2419: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2420: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2421:
1.247 jufi 2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2423: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2424: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2425: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2426: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2427:
1.240 miod 2428: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2429: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2430: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2431: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2432: <p>
2433:
1.247 jufi 2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2435: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2436: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2437: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2438:
2439: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2440: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2441: <p>
2442:
2443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2444: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2445: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2446: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2447:
2448: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2449: <p>
2450:
2451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2452: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2453: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2454: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2455: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2456:
1.240 miod 2457: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2458: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2459: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2460: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2461: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2462: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2463: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2464: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2465: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2466: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2467: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2468: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2469: <p>
2470:
1.247 jufi 2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2472: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2473: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2474: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2475: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2476:
1.194 jufi 2477: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2478: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2479: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2480: <br>
2481: The new
2482: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2483: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2484: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2485: <p>
1.247 jufi 2486: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2487:
1.190 horacio 2488: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2489: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2492:
2493: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2494: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2495:
1.301 jose 2496:
1.191 jufi 2497: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2498: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2499:
2500: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2501: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2502:
1.212 horacio 2503: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2504: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2505: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2506:
1.211 horacio 2507: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2508: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2509: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2510:
1.247 jufi 2511: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2512: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2515: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2516:
1.212 horacio 2517: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2518: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2519: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2520:
2521: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2522: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2523:
2524: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2525: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2526:
1.301 jose 2527: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2528: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2529:
1.191 jufi 2530: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2531: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2532:
2533: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2534: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2535:
1.192 jufi 2536: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2537: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2538: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2539:
1.193 deraadt 2540: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2541: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2542: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2543:
1.247 jufi 2544: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2545: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2546:
1.247 jufi 2547: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2548: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2549: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2550:
1.213 horacio 2551: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2552: 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 2553: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2554:
1.190 horacio 2555: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2556: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2557: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2558: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2559: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2560: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2561: <p>
1.190 horacio 2562:
1.247 jufi 2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2564: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2565: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2566: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2567: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2568:
1.195 jufi 2569: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2570: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2571: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2572: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2573: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2574: <p>
2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2577: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2578: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2579: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2580: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2581:
1.191 jufi 2582: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2583: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2584: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2585: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2586: <p>
2587:
2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2589: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2590: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2591: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2592:
2593: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2594: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2595: <p>
1.247 jufi 2596: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2597:
1.191 jufi 2598:
1.186 jufi 2599: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2600: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2601:
1.247 jufi 2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2603: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2604: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2605: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2606: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2607:
1.188 jufi 2608: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2609: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2610: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2611: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2612: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2613: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2614: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2615: <p>
2616:
1.301 jose 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2618: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2619: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2620: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2621:
2622: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2623: <p>
1.191 jufi 2624:
1.247 jufi 2625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2626: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2627: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2628: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2629: </strong></font><br>
2630:
2631: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2632: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2633: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2634: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2635: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2636: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2637: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2638: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2639: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2640: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2641: familiar?
2642: <p>
1.247 jufi 2643: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2644:
1.178 louis 2645: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2646: <ul>
1.178 louis 2647:
1.247 jufi 2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2649: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2650: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2651: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2652: </strong></font><br>
2653:
2654: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2655: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2656: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2657: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2658: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2659: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2660: <p>
2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2663: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2664: Open source under the hood</a>,
2665: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2666: </strong></font><br>
2667:
2668: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2669: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2670: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2671: <p>
2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2674: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2675: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2676: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2677: </strong></font><br>
2678:
2679: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2680: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2681: <p>
1.247 jufi 2682: </ul>
1.179 louis 2683:
1.174 louis 2684:
1.175 louis 2685: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2686: <ul>
1.175 louis 2687:
1.247 jufi 2688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2689: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2690: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2691: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2692: </strong></font><br>
2693:
2694: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2695: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2696: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2697: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2698: <p>
2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2701: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2702: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2703: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2707: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2708: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2709: <p>
1.247 jufi 2710: </ul>
1.175 louis 2711:
1.176 louis 2712:
1.172 mickey 2713: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2714: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2717: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2718: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2719: </strong></font><br>
2720:
2721: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2722: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2723: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2724: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2725: <p>
2726:
1.247 jufi 2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2728: <a
1.269 deraadt 2729: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2730: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2731: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2732: </strong></font><br>
2733:
2734: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2735: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2736: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2737: <p>
2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2740: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2741: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2742: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2743: </strong></font><br>
2744:
2745: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2746: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2747: <p>
2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2750: <a
1.269 deraadt 2751: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2752: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2753: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2754: </strong></font><br>
2755:
2756: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2757: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2758: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2759: our own Theo de Raadt.
2760: <p>
2761:
1.247 jufi 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2763: <a
1.269 deraadt 2764: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2765: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2766: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2767: </strong></font><br>
2768:
2769: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2770: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2771: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2772: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2773: shut down.]
2774: <p>
2775:
1.247 jufi 2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2777: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2778: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2779: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2780: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2781: </strong></font><br>
2782:
2783: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2784: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2785: <p>
1.247 jufi 2786: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2787:
1.161 louis 2788: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2789: <ul>
1.161 louis 2790:
1.247 jufi 2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2792: <a
1.269 deraadt 2793: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2794: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2795: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2796: </strong></font><br>
2797:
2798: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2799: by John Wolley
2800: <p>
2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2803: <a
1.269 deraadt 2804: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2805: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2806: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2807: </strong></font><br>
2808:
2809: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2810: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2811: OpenBSD).
2812: <p>
2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2815: <a
1.247 jufi 2816: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2817: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2818: </strong></font><br>
2819:
2820: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2821: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2822: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2823: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2824: and hindsight.
2825: <p>
2826:
1.247 jufi 2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2828: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2829: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2830: </strong></font><br>
2831:
2832: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2833: <p>
2834:
1.247 jufi 2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2836: <a
1.168 provos 2837: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2838: December 7, 2000
2839: </strong></font><br>
2840:
2841: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2842: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2843: us explain.
2844: <p>
2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2847: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2848: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2849: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2850: December 6, 2000
2851: </strong></font><br>
2852:
2853: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2854: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2855: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2856: <p>
2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2859: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2860: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2861: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2862: </strong></font><br>
2863:
2864: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2865: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2866: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2867: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2868: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2869: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2870: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2871: <p>
2872:
2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2874: <a
1.226 horacio 2875: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2876: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2877: </strong></font><br>
2878:
2879: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2880: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2881: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2882: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2883: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2884: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2885: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2886: <p>
1.162 millert 2887:
1.247 jufi 2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2889: <a
1.161 louis 2890: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2891: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2892: </strong></font><br>
2893:
2894: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2895: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2896: <p>
2897:
1.247 jufi 2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2899: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2900: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2901: </strong></font><br>
2902:
2903: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2904: <p>
2905:
2906:
1.247 jufi 2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2908: <a
1.226 horacio 2909: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2910: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2911: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2912: </strong></font><br>
2913:
2914: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2915: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2916: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2917: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2918: <p>
1.247 jufi 2919: </ul>
1.169 louis 2920:
1.158 louis 2921: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2922: <ul>
1.147 louis 2923:
1.247 jufi 2924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2925: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2926: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2927: </strong></font><br>
2928:
2929: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2930: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2931: <p>
2932:
1.247 jufi 2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2934: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2935: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2936: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2937: </strong></font><br>
2938: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2939: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2940: <p>
2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2943: <a
2944: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2945: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2949: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2950: <p>
2951:
1.247 jufi 2952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2953: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2954: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2955: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2956:
1.213 horacio 2957: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2958: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2959: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2960: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2961: <p>
1.215 horacio 2962:
1.247 jufi 2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2964: <a
2965: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2966: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2967: </strong></font><br>
2968:
2969: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2970: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2971: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2972: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2973: much of the attitude too).
2974: <p>
1.161 louis 2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2977: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2978: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2979: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2980:
1.157 louis 2981: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2982: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2983: <p>
1.247 jufi 2984: </ul>
1.157 louis 2985:
2986: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2987: <ul>
1.157 louis 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2990: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2991: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2992: </strong></font><br>
2993:
2994: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2995: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2996: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2997: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2998: <p>
2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3001: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3002: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3003: </strong></font><br>
3004:
3005: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3006: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3007: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3008: it because they love coding...
3009: <p>
3010:
1.247 jufi 3011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3012: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3013: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3014: </strong></font><br>
3015:
3016: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3017: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3018: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3019: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3020: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3021: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3022: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3023: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3024: <p>
3025:
1.247 jufi 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3027: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3028: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3029: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3030: </strong></font><br>
3031:
3032: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3033: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3034: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3035: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3036: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3037: the pizza.
3038: <p>
3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3041: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3042: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3043: </strong></font><br>
3044:
3045: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3046: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3047: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3048: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3049: problems.
3050: <p>
3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3053: <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 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055:
1.222 miod 3056: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3057: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3058: - whether they like it or not.
3059: <p>
3060:
1.247 jufi 3061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3062: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3063: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3064: </strong></font><br>
3065:
3066: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3067: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3068: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3069: <p>
1.148 aaron 3070:
1.247 jufi 3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3072: <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 3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3076: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3077: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3078: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3079: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3080: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3081: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3082: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3083: <p>
3084:
1.247 jufi 3085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3086: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3087: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3088: </strong></font><br>
3089:
3090: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3091: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3092: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3093: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3094: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3095: <p>
1.247 jufi 3096: </ul>
1.147 louis 3097:
1.138 louis 3098: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3099: <ul>
1.138 louis 3100:
1.247 jufi 3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3102: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3103: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3104: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3105: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3106: </strong></font><br>
3107:
1.227 horacio 3108: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3109: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3110: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3111: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3112: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3113: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3114: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3115: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3116: <p>
3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3119: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3120: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3121: </strong></font><br>
3122:
3123: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3124: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3125: groups, and even Linux.
3126: <p>
3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3129: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3130: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3131: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3132: </strong></font><br>
3133:
3134: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3135: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3136: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3137: library after installing the OS.
3138: <p>
3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3141: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3142: Sys Admin, September 2000
3143: </strong></font><br>
3144:
3145: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3146: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3147: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3148: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3149: (<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>,
3150: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3151: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3152: <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 3153: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3154: out of the system.
3155: <p>
3156:
1.247 jufi 3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3158: <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
3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3162: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3163: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3164: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3165: the IP filtering and address translation.
3166: <p>
1.301 jose 3167:
3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3169: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3170: </strong></font><br>
3171:
3172: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3173: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3174: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3175: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3176: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3177: <p>
1.247 jufi 3178: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3179:
1.131 louis 3180: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3181: <ul>
1.131 louis 3182:
1.247 jufi 3183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3184: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3185: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3186: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3187: </strong></font><br>
3188:
3189: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3190: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3191: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3192: <p>
3193:
1.247 jufi 3194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3195: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3196: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3197: </strong></font><br>
3198:
3199: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3200: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3201: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3202: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3203: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3204: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3205: note of"</i>.
3206: <p>
3207:
1.247 jufi 3208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3209: <a
1.247 jufi 3210: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3211: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3212: </strong></font><br>
3213:
3214: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3215: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3216: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3217: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3218: <p>
3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3221: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3222: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3223: </strong></font><br>
3224:
3225: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3226: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3227: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3228: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3229: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3230: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3231: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3232: <p>
3233:
1.247 jufi 3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3235: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3236: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3237: 2000
3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3241: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3242: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3243: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3244: against current industry practices.
3245: <p>
3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3248: <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
3249: </strong></font><br>
3250:
3251: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3252: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3253: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3254: <p>
3255:
1.247 jufi 3256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3257: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3258: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3259: </strong></font><br>
3260:
3261: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3262: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3263: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3264: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3265: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3266: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3267: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3268: <p>
3269:
1.247 jufi 3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3271: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3272: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3273: </strong></font><br>
3274:
3275: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3276: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3277: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3278: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3279: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3280: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3281: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3282: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3283: <p>
1.247 jufi 3284: </ul>
1.131 louis 3285:
1.118 louis 3286: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3287: <ul>
1.118 louis 3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3290: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3291: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3292: </strong></font><br>
3293:
3294: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3295: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3296: about time. The article mentions that
3297: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3298: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3299: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3300: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3301: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3302: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3303: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3304: <p>
3305:
1.247 jufi 3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3307: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3308: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3309: </strong></font><br>
3310:
3311: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3312: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3313: of OpenSSH.
3314: <p>
3315:
1.247 jufi 3316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3317: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3318: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3319: </strong></font><br>
3320:
3321: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3322: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3323: bridging.
3324: <p>
3325:
1.247 jufi 3326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3327: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3328: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3329: </strong></font><br>
3330:
1.121 deraadt 3331: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3332: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3333: <p>
3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3336: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3337: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3338: </strong></font><br>
3339:
3340: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3341: <p>
3342:
1.247 jufi 3343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3344: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3345: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3346: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3347: </strong></font><br>
3348:
1.120 deraadt 3349: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3350: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3351: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3352: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3353: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3354: <p>
3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3357: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3358: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3359: </strong></font><br>
3360:
1.222 miod 3361: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3362: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3363: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3364: protocols and their quirks.
3365: <p>
3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3368: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3369: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3370: </strong></font><br>
3371:
3372: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3373: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3374: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3375: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3376: <p>
3377:
1.247 jufi 3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3379: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3380: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3381: </strong></font><br>
3382:
3383: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3384: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3385: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3386: <p>
3387:
1.247 jufi 3388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3389: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3390: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3391: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3392: </strong></font><br>
3393:
3394: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3395: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3396: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3397: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3398: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3399: <p>
1.247 jufi 3400: </ul>
1.118 louis 3401:
1.104 louis 3402: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3403: <ul>
1.104 louis 3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3406: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3407: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3408: </strong></font><br>
3409:
3410: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3411: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3412: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3413: be a bit dry.
3414: <p>
3415:
1.247 jufi 3416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3417: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3418: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3419: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3420: </strong></font><br>
3421: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3422: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3423: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3424: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3425: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3426: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3427: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3428: <p>
3429:
1.247 jufi 3430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3431: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3432: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3433: 2000
1.128 louis 3434: </strong></font><br>
3435:
3436: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3437: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3438: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3439: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3440: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3441: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3442: <p>
3443:
1.247 jufi 3444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3445: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3446: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3447: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3448:
3449: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3450: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3451: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3452: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3453: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3454: <p>
1.110 louis 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3457: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3458: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3459: </strong></font><br>
3460:
3461: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3462: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3463: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3464: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3465: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3466: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3467: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3468: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3469: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3470: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3471: <p>
3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3474: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3475: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3476:
3477: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3478: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3479: <p>
1.108 louis 3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3482: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3483: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3484: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3485:
3486: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3487: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3488: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3489: <p>
1.106 louis 3490:
1.247 jufi 3491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3492: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3493: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3494: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3495:
3496: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3497: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3498: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3499: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3500: <p>
1.107 louis 3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3503: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3504: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3505: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3506:
3507: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3508: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3509: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3510: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3511: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3512: <p>
1.105 louis 3513:
1.247 jufi 3514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3515: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3516: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3517: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3518:
1.113 naddy 3519: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3520: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3521: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3522: <p>
1.104 louis 3523:
1.247 jufi 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3525: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3526: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3527: </strong></font><br>
3528:
3529: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3530: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3531: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3532: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3533: <p>
1.301 jose 3534:
3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3536: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3537: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3538: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3539:
3540: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3541: hardware-supported cryptography.
3542: <p>
1.247 jufi 3543: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3544:
1.85 louis 3545: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3546: <ul>
1.85 louis 3547:
1.247 jufi 3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3549: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3550: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3551: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3552:
3553: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3554: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3555: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3556: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3557: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3558: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3559: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3560: <p>
1.99 louis 3561:
1.247 jufi 3562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3563: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3564: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3565: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3566:
3567: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3568: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3569: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3570: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3571: <p>
1.100 louis 3572:
1.247 jufi 3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3574: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3575: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3576: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3577:
3578: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3579: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3580: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3581: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3582: <p>
1.95 louis 3583:
1.247 jufi 3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3585: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3586: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3587: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3588:
3589: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3590: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3591: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3592: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3593: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3594: <p>
1.92 louis 3595:
1.247 jufi 3596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3597: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3598: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3599: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3600:
3601: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3602: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3603: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3604: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3605: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3606: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3607: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3608: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3609: <p>
1.91 louis 3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3612: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3613: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3614: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3615:
3616: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3617: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3618: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3619: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3620: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3621: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3622: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3623: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3624: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3625: <p>
1.90 louis 3626:
1.247 jufi 3627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3628: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3629: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3630: </strong></font><br>
3631: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3632: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3633: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3634: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3635: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3636: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3637: <p>
3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3640: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3641: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3642: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3643:
1.113 naddy 3644: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3645: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3646: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3647: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3648: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3649: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3650: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3651: <p>
1.87 louis 3652:
1.247 jufi 3653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3654: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3655: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3656: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3657:
3658: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3659: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3660: <p>
1.85 louis 3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3663: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3664: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3665: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3666:
3667: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3668: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3669: <p>
3670:
3671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3672: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3673: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3674: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3675:
3676: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3677: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3678: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3679: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3680: <p>
1.89 louis 3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3683: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3684: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3685: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3686:
3687: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3688: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3689: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3690: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3691: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3692: </ul>
1.85 louis 3693:
1.78 deraadt 3694: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3695: <ul>
1.74 louis 3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3698: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3699: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3700: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3701: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3702:
3703: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3704: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3705: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3706: <p>
1.83 louis 3707:
1.247 jufi 3708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3709: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3710: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3711: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3712:
3713: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3714: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3715: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3716: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3717: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3718: <p>
1.93 louis 3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3721: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3722: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3723: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3724: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3725:
1.83 louis 3726: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3727: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3728: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3729: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3730: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3731: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3732: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3733: <p>
1.82 aaron 3734:
1.247 jufi 3735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3736: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3737: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3738: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3739:
1.83 louis 3740: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3741: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3742: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3743: <p>
1.80 louis 3744:
1.247 jufi 3745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3746: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3747: Bad Press</a>,
3748: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3749: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3750:
3751: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3752: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3753: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3754: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3755: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3756: <p>
1.247 jufi 3757: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3758:
3759: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3760: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3763: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3764: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3765: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3766: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3767:
3768: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3769: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3770: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3771: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3772: <p>
1.74 louis 3773:
1.247 jufi 3774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3775: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3776: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3777: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3778:
1.219 horacio 3779: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3780: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3781: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3782: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3783: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3784: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3785: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3786: <p>
1.88 louis 3787:
1.247 jufi 3788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3789: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3790: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3791: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3792:
3793: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3794: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3795: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3796: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3797: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3798: <p>
1.81 louis 3799:
1.247 jufi 3800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3801: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3802: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3803: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3804:
3805: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3806: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3807: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3808: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3809: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3810: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3811: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3812: <p>
1.90 louis 3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3815: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3816: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3817: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3818:
3819: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3820: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3821: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3822: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3823: <p>
1.247 jufi 3824: </ul>
1.71 louis 3825:
1.69 deraadt 3826: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3827: <ul>
1.70 louis 3828:
1.247 jufi 3829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3830: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3831: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3832: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3833:
3834: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3835: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3836: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3837: <p>
1.70 louis 3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3840: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3841: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3842: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3843:
3844: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3845: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3846: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3847: <p>
1.68 louis 3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3850: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3851: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3852: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3853: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3854:
1.111 jufi 3855: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3856: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3857: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3858: "secure by default" installation.
3859: <p>
1.64 louis 3860:
1.247 jufi 3861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3862: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3863: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3864: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3865:
1.113 naddy 3866: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3867: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3868: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3869: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3870: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3871: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3872: <p>
1.66 louis 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3875: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3876: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3877: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3878:
3879: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3880: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3881: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3882: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3883: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3884: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3885: <p>
1.83 louis 3886:
1.247 jufi 3887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3888: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3889: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3890: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3891:
3892: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3893: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3894: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3895: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3896: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3897: <p>
1.64 louis 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3900: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3901: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3902: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3903:
3904: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3905: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3906: <p>
1.301 jose 3907:
3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3909: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3910: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3911: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3912: </strong></font><br>
3913:
3914: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3915: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3916: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3917: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3918: Giving way to
3919: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3920: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3921: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3922: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3923: <p>
1.247 jufi 3924: </ul>
1.65 louis 3925:
1.69 deraadt 3926: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3927: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3928:
1.247 jufi 3929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3930: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3931: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3932: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3933:
3934: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3935: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3936: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3937: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3938: <p>
1.88 louis 3939:
1.247 jufi 3940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3941: <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 3942: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3943:
3944: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3945: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3946: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3947: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3948: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3949: <p>
1.60 louis 3950:
1.247 jufi 3951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3952: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3953: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3954: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3955: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3956:
3957: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3958: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3959: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3960: <p>
1.58 louis 3961:
1.247 jufi 3962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3963: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3964: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3965:
3966: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3967: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3968: <p>
1.53 louis 3969:
1.247 jufi 3970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3971: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3972: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3973: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3974:
3975: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3976: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3977: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3978: <p>
1.99 louis 3979:
1.247 jufi 3980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3981: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3982: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3983:
3984: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3985: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3986: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3987: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3988: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3991: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3992: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3993: </strong></font><br>
3994:
3995: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3996: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3997: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3998: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3999: <p>
4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4002: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4003: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4004: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4005:
4006: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4007: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4008: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4009:
1.247 jufi 4010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4011: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4012: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4013:
4014: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4015: in
1.247 jufi 4016: <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 4017: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4018: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4019: <p>
1.53 louis 4020:
1.247 jufi 4021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4022: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4023: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4024: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4025: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4026:
1.58 louis 4027: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4028: <p>
1.301 jose 4029:
4030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4031: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4032: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4033: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4034: Informacyjny, January 2000
4035: </strong></font><br>
4036:
4037: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4038: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4039: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4040: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4041: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4042: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4043: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4044: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4045: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4046: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4047: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4048: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4049: <p>
4050:
4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4052: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4053: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4054: </strong></font><br>
4055:
4056: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4057: <p>
4058: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4059:
1.69 deraadt 4060: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4061: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4062:
1.247 jufi 4063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4064: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4065: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4066: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4067: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4068:
1.58 louis 4069: Kurt Seifried
4070: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4071: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4072: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4073: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4074:
1.247 jufi 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4076: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4077: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4078: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4079:
4080: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4081: <p>
1.96 louis 4082:
1.247 jufi 4083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4084: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4085: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4086: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4087: </strong></font><br>
4088:
4089: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4090: <p>
4091:
4092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4093: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4094: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4095: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4096:
4097: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4098: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4099: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4100: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4101: <p>
1.247 jufi 4102: </ul>
1.86 louis 4103:
1.69 deraadt 4104: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4105: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4108: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4109: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4110: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4111:
4112: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4113: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4114: <p>
1.61 louis 4115:
1.247 jufi 4116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4117: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4118: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4119: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4120: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4121:
4122: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4123: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4124: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4125: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4126: right -- or at least strives to".
4127: <p>
1.48 louis 4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4130: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4131: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4133: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4134: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4135: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4136: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4137: <p>
1.61 louis 4138:
1.247 jufi 4139: <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 4140: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4141: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4142:
4143: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4144: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4145: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4146: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4147: <p>
1.46 louis 4148:
1.247 jufi 4149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4150: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4151: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4152: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4153:
4154: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4155: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4156: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4157:
1.247 jufi 4158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4159: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4160: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4161: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4162:
4163: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4164: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4165: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4166: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4167: <p>
1.247 jufi 4168: </ul>
1.70 louis 4169:
1.69 deraadt 4170: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4171: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4172:
1.247 jufi 4173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4174: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4175: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4176: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4177: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4178:
4179: Kurt Seifried
4180: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4181: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4182: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4183: <p>
1.44 philen 4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <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 4186: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4187: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4188:
4189: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4190: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4191:
1.247 jufi 4192: <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 4193: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4194: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4195:
4196: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4197: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4198:
1.247 jufi 4199: <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 4200: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4201: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4202:
4203: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4204: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4205: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4206: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4207: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4208:
1.247 jufi 4209: <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 4210: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4211: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4212:
1.36 louis 4213: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4214: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4215:
1.247 jufi 4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4217: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4218: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4219: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4220:
4221: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4222: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4223: </ul>
1.38 louis 4224:
1.69 deraadt 4225: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4226: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <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 4229: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4230: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4231:
4232: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4233: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4234: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4235:
1.113 naddy 4236: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4237: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4238: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4239: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4240:
4241: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4242: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4243: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4244: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4245: <blockquote>
4246: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4247: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4248: <br>
4249: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4250: </code>
4251: </blockquote>
4252: <p>
4253:
1.247 jufi 4254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4255: <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 4256: <p>
4257:
4258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4259: <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 4260: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4261:
4262: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4263: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4264: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4265: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4268: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4269: Sept. 28, 1999
4270: </strong></font><br>
4271:
4272: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4273: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4274: translating and reprinting articles from
4275: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4276: <p>
4277:
4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4279: <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 4280: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4281:
4282: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4283: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4284: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4285: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4286: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4287: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4288: <p>
1.19 louis 4289:
1.113 naddy 4290: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4291: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4292: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4293:
4294: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4295: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4296: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4297: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4298: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4299: <p>
1.16 louis 4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4302: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4303: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4304: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4305:
1.57 louis 4306: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4307: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4308: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4309: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4310:
1.247 jufi 4311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4312: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4313: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4314: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4315:
1.113 naddy 4316: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4317:
1.247 jufi 4318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4319: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4320: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4321: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4322:
1.23 louis 4323: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4324: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4325: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4326: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4327: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4328: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4329:
1.247 jufi 4330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4331: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4332: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4333: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4334:
1.199 pvalchev 4335: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4336: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4337: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4338: installation.
1.113 naddy 4339: <p>
1.47 louis 4340:
1.247 jufi 4341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4342: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4343: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4344: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4345:
1.301 jose 4346: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4347: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4348: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4349: </ul>
1.57 louis 4350:
1.69 deraadt 4351: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4352: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4353:
1.247 jufi 4354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4355: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4356: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4357: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4358:
4359: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4360: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4361: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4362: <p>
1.12 louis 4363:
1.247 jufi 4364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4365: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4366: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4367: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4368:
4369: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4370: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4371: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4372: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4373: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4374: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4375: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4376: <p>
1.247 jufi 4377: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4378:
1.69 deraadt 4379: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4380: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4381:
1.247 jufi 4382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4383: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4384: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4385:
4386: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4387: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4388: available."
1.113 naddy 4389: <p>
1.301 jose 4390:
4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4392: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4393: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4394: </strong></font><br>
4395:
4396: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4397: <p>
1.247 jufi 4398: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4399:
1.69 deraadt 4400: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4401: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4402:
1.247 jufi 4403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4404: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4405: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4406:
4407: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4408: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4409: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4410: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4411: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4412: <p>
1.33 louis 4413:
1.247 jufi 4414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4415: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4416: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4417: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4418:
1.113 naddy 4419: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4420: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4421: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4422: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4423: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4424: <p>
1.247 jufi 4425: </ul>
1.57 louis 4426:
1.69 deraadt 4427: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4428: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4429:
1.247 jufi 4430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4431: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4432: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4433: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4434:
4435: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4436: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4437: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4438:
1.247 jufi 4439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4440: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4441: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4442: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4443: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4444:
4445: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4446: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4447:
1.247 jufi 4448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4449: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4450:
1.113 naddy 4451: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4452:
1.247 jufi 4453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4454: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4455: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4456: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4457:
4458: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4459: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4460: </ul>
1.23 louis 4461:
1.69 deraadt 4462: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4463: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4464:
1.247 jufi 4465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4466: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4467: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4468:
4469: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4470: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4471: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4472:
1.247 jufi 4473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4474: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4475: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4476: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4477:
4478: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4479: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4480: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4481: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4482: </ul>
1.57 louis 4483:
1.69 deraadt 4484: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4485: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4486:
1.247 jufi 4487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4488: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4489: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4490: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4491:
4492: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4493: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4494: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4495: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4496: <p>
1.15 louis 4497:
1.247 jufi 4498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4499: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4500: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4501: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4502:
4503: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4504: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4505: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4506: columns."
1.113 naddy 4507: <p>
1.247 jufi 4508: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4509:
1.69 deraadt 4510: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4511: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4512:
1.247 jufi 4513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4514: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4515: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4516: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4517:
4518: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4519: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4520:
1.113 naddy 4521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4522: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4523: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4524:
4525: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4526: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4527: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4528: </ul>
1.57 louis 4529:
1.69 deraadt 4530: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4531: <ul>
1.301 jose 4532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4533: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4534: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4535: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4536:
4537: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4538: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4539: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4540: <p>
4541:
4542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4543: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4544: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4545: Nov 13, 1998 and
4546: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4547: Datateknik</a>,
4548: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4549:
1.380 saad 4550: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4551: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4552: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4553: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4554: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4555:
1.113 naddy 4556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4557: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4558: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4559: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4560:
1.222 miod 4561: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4562: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4563: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4564: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4565: <p>
1.247 jufi 4566: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4567:
1.69 deraadt 4568: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4569: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4570:
1.247 jufi 4571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4572: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4573: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4574:
1.69 deraadt 4575: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4576: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4577: <p>
1.247 jufi 4578: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4579:
1.69 deraadt 4580: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4581: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4582:
1.247 jufi 4583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4584: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4585: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4586: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4587:
1.383 jcs 4588: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4589: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4590: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4591:
1.247 jufi 4592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4593: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4594: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4595: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4596: <p>
1.247 jufi 4597: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4598:
1.69 deraadt 4599: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4600: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4603: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4604: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4605: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4606: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4607: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4608:
4609: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4610: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4611: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4612: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4613: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4614: <p>
1.247 jufi 4615: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4616:
4617: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4618: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4619:
1.247 jufi 4620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4621: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4622: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4623:
1.69 deraadt 4624: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4625: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4626: <p>
1.112 naddy 4627:
1.247 jufi 4628: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4629: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4630:
1.292 camield 4631: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4632: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4633: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.440 ! ian 4634: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.439 2005/04/16 16:16:47 espie Exp $</small>
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