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1.441 ! deraadt 19: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP",
! 23: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0505/">Sys Admin Magazine</a>,
! 24: Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
! 27: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
! 28: with OpenBSD.
! 29: </ul>
! 30:
1.436 henning 31: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
32: <ul>
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 34: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
35: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
36: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
37: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
38: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
39: than closed source, as we have long contended.
40: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
41: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
42: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
43: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
44: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
45: <p>
46: This article can also be found online as
47: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
48: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 52: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
53: </strong></font><br>
54: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
55: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
56: <p>
57:
58: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 59: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
60: </strong></font><br>
61: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
62: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 63: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 64: the issues we had with IETF.
65: </ul>
66:
1.431 ian 67: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
68: <ul>
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 70: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
71: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
72: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
73: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
74: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
75: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
76: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
77: <p>
78:
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 80: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
81: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
82: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
83: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
84: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
85: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 86: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 87: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
88: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
89: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
90: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
91: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
92: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
93: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
94: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
95:
96: </ul>
97:
1.427 matthieu 98: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
99: <ul>
100:
101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 102: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
103: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
104: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
105: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
106: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
107: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
108: firmware.
1.434 ian 109: Similar articles can be found online at:
110: <ul>
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
112: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
113: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
114: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
116: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
117: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
118: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
120: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
121: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
122: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
124: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
125: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
126: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
127: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 128: </ul>
129:
1.426 ian 130: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
131: <ul>
132:
133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
134: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
135: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
136: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
137: This article talks about our systrace
138: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
139: mechanism: what it is and why and
140: how to use it, with examples.
141: Another excerpt from the book
142: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
143: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
147: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
148: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
149: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
150: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
151: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
152: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
153: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
154: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
155: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
156: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
157: This article is a sample chapter from
158: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
159: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
160: <p>
161: </ul>
162:
1.424 ian 163: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
164: <ul>
165:
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 167: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
168: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
169: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
170: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
171: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
172: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
173: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
174: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
175: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
176: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
177: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
178: <p>
179: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
180: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
181: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
182: <p>
183:
184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 185: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
186: Closed Source Hardware</a>
187: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
188: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
189: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
190: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
191: operating systems.
192: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
193: OpenBSD on his firewall.
194: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
195: systems, he writes:
196: <blockquote>
197: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
198: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
199: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
200: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
201: to the operating system...
202: <br/>
203: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
204: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
205: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
206: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
207: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
208: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
209: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
210: in a closed source operating system).
211: <br/>
212: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
213: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
214: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
215: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
216: </blockquote>
217: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
218: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
219: their hardware and software operates.
220: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
221: reverse-engineering the
222: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
223: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
224: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
225: <p>
226: </ul>
227:
1.417 pvalchev 228: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
229: <ul>
1.421 ian 230:
1.417 pvalchev 231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 232: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
233: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
234: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
235: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
236: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
237: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
238: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
239: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
240: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
241: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
242: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 243: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 244: <p>
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 246: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
247: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
248: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
249: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
250: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
251: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
252: it claims to do".
253: <p>
254:
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 256: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
257: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
258: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
259: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
260: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 261: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 262: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
263: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
264: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
265: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
266: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
267: (yes, this is a hint).
268: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
269: picked up on the
270: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
271: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
272: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
273: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
274: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 278: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
279: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
280: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
281: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
282: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
283: questions about the significance and rationale behind
284: the current efforts.
285: <p>
286: </ul>
287:
1.407 henning 288: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
289: <ul>
290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 291: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
292: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
293: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
294: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
295: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
296: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
297: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
298: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 302: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
303: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
304: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
305: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
306: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
307: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
308: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
309: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
310: of the important changes in 3.6.
311: </p>
312:
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 314: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
315: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
316: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
317: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
318: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
319: overflow attacks... because
320: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
321: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
322: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
323: and propolice.
324: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
325: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
326: and that's when the science falls apart."
327: <p>
328:
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 330: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
331: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
332: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
333: Starts with the question:
334: <blockquote>
335: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
336: <br/>
337: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
338: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
339: <br/>
340: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
341: Should we believe them?"
342: </blockquote>
343: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
344: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
345: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
346: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
347: for your mail, web and other online activities.
348: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 352: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
353: Simple Simon</a>,
354: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
355: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
356: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
357: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
358: routing/firewall, and more.
359: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
360: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
361: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
362: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
363: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
364: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
365: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
366: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
367: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
368: </blockquote>
369: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
370: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
371: <p>
372:
373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 374: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
375: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 376: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 377: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 378: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
379: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
380: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 381: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 382: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
383: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
384: in spite of it
385: (registration required, but worth it).
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
389: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
390: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
391: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
392: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
393: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
394: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
395: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 396: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 397: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
398: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
399: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
400: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
401: <p>
402:
403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 404: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
405: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
406: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
407: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
408: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
409: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
410: <blockquote>
411: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
412: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
413: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
414: a lot of analysis.
415: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
416: </blockquote>
417: <p>
418: </ul>
419:
1.400 marco 420: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
421: <ul>
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 423: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
424: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
425: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
426: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
427: UNIX-like systems.
428: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
429: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
430: <p>
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 432: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
433: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 434: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
435: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
436: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
437: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
438: At one point, the article states:
439: <blockquote>
440: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
441: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
442: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
443: </blockquote>
444: And then quotes Theo as saying:
445: <blockquote>
446: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
447: fewer are reading or auditing code."
448: </blockquote>
449: <p>
450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
451: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
452: marks its fifth birthday</a>
453: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
454: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
455: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
456: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
457: required).
458: <p>
459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 460: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
461: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
462: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
463: </strong></font><br>
464: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
465: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
466: <p>
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 468: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
469: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 470: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 471: </strong></font><br>
472: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
473: <p>
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 475: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
476: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 477: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 478: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 479: 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 480: <p>
481: </ul>
482:
1.396 henning 483: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
484: <ul>
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 486: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
487: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
488: Unix Review, July, 2004
489: </strong></font><br>
490: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
491: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
492: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
493: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
494: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
495: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
496: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
497: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
498: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
499: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
500: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
501: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
502: and even spelling/wording errors.
503: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
504: <p>
505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 506: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 507: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
508: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
509: </strong></font><br>
510: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
511: <p>
512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 513: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 514: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
515: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
516: </strong></font><br>
517: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
518: <p>
519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 520: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
521: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
522: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
523: </strong></font><br>
524: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
525: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
526: <p>
527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 528: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
529: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
530: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
531: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
532: <p>
533: </ul>
534:
1.405 jolan 535: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
536: <ul>
537: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
538: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
539: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
540: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
541: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
542: details on how funds are dispersed.
543: <p>
544: </ul>
545:
1.393 david 546: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
547: <ul>
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 549: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
550: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
551: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
552: </strong></font><br>
553: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
554: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
555: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
556: on inserting large number of SQL records.
557: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
558: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
559: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
560: <p>
561:
562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 563: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
564: Secure by Default</a>,
565: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
566: </strong></font><br>
567: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
568: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
572: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
573: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
574: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
575: </strong></font><br>
576: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
577: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
578: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
579: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
580: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
581: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
585: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
586: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
587: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
588: </strong></font><br>
589: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
590: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
591: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
592: <p>
593:
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
595: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
596: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
597: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
598: </strong></font><br>
599: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
600: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
601: <p>
602: </ul>
603:
1.388 mcbride 604: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
605: <ul>
1.394 jolan 606:
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
608: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
609: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
610: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
611: </strong></font><br>
612: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
613: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
614: available for sparc64.
615: <p>
616:
1.390 beck 617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 618: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
619: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
620: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
621: </strong></font><br>
622: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
623: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
624: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
625: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
626: <p>
627:
628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 629: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
630: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 631: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 632: </strong></font><br>
633: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
634: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
635: it does: CARP provides sharing
636: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
637: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
638: detail to get you started using it.
639: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
640: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
641: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
642: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
643: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
644: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
645: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 646: <p>
1.391 ian 647:
648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 649: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 650: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
651: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 652: </strong></font><br>
653: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 654: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 655: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 656: <p>
1.388 mcbride 657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
659: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
660: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 661: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 662: </strong></font><br>
663: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
664: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
665: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
666: unencumbered by patents.
667: <p>
668: </ul>
669:
1.378 henning 670: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
671: <ul>
1.384 jose 672:
673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 674: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
675: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
676: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
677: </strong></font><br>
678: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
679: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
680: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
681: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
682: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
683: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
684: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
685: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
686: in the page tables."
687: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
688: <p>
689:
690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 691: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
692: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
693: </strong></font><br>
694: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
695: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
696: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
697: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 698: <p>
1.384 jose 699:
1.378 henning 700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 701: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
702: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 703: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
704: </strong></font><br>
705: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
706: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
707: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
708: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
709: (quote:
710: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
711: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 712: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 713: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
714: the other developers for their work on the system.
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 718: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
719: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
720: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 721: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 722: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
723: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
724: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
725: too.
726: <p>
727:
728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 729: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
730: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 731: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 732: OpenBSD source code using
733: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
734: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
735: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
736: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
737: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
738: <p>
739: </ul>
740:
1.374 jose 741: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
742: <ul>
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 744: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 745: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
746: </strong></font><br>
747: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
748: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
749: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
750: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
751: it."
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 755: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
756: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
757: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
758: </strong></font><br/>
759: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
760: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
761: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
762: <p>
763: </ul>
764:
1.369 ian 765: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
766: <ul>
767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 768: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
769: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
770: </strong></font><br/>
771: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
772: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
773: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
774: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 778: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
779: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
780: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
781: </strong></font><br/>
782: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
783: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
784: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
785: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
786: form factor.
787: <p>
788:
789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
790: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
791: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
792: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
793: Features</a>,
794: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
795: </strong></font><br/>
796: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
797: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
798: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
799: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
800: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
801: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
802: <p>
803: This article can also be found online at:
804: <ul>
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 806: <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 807: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
808: </strong></font>
809: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
810: </ul>
811: <p>
1.392 david 812:
1.371 jose 813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 814: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
815: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 816: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
817: </strong></font><br/>
818: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
819: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
820: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 821: <p>
1.371 jose 822:
823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 824: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 825: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 826: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 827: </strong></font><br/>
828: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
829: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
830: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
831: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
832: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
833: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
834: and its history with OpenBSD.
835: </ul>
836:
1.368 henning 837: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
838: <ul>
839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 840: [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 841: </strong></font><br>
842: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
843: </ul>
844:
1.364 jose 845: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
846: <ul>
847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 848: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
849: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
850: UNIX Review,
851: July, 2003.
852: </strong></font><br>
853: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
854: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
855: who want more information.
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 859: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
860: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
861: Government Computer News,
862: July 22, 2003.
863: </strong></font><br>
864: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
865: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
866: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
867: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
871: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
872: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
873: SANS Institute,
874: July 22, 2003.
875: </strong></font><br>
876: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 877: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 878: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
879: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
880: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
881: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
882: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
883: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
884: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
885: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
886: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 890: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
891: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
892: OnLamp.com,
893: July 17, 2003.
894: </strong></font><br>
895: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
896: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
897: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
898: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
899: have been working on.
900:
901: </ul>
902:
1.356 jose 903: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 904: <ul>
905:
906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 907: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
908: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
909: UNIX Review,
910: June, 2003.
911: </strong></font><br>
912: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
913: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
914: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
915: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
916: <p>
917:
918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 919: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
920: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
921: eWeek,
922: June 23, 2003.
923: </strong></font><br>
924: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
925: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
926: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
927: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
928: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
929: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
930: <p>
931:
932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 933: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
934: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
935: Software Development Online,
936: June, 2003.
937: </strong></font><br>
938: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
939: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
940: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
941: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
942: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
943: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
944: current activities.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 948: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
949: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 950: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
951: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
952: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
953: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 954: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 955: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
956: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
957: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 958: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 959: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
960: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 961: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 962: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
963: decisions.
964: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
965: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 966: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 967: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 968: <p>
969:
970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 971: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
972: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
973: Page 58, eWeek,
974: June 2, 2003.
975: </strong></font><br>
976: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
977: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
978: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
979: been addressed in -current.
980: <p>
981:
1.356 jose 982: </ul>
983:
984: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
985: <ul>
986:
1.355 jose 987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 988: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
989: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
990: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
991: </strong></font><br>
992: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
993: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
994: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
995: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
996: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
997: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
998: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
999: <p>
1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1002: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1003: Beyond Linux</a>,
1004: InfoWorld,
1005: May 23, 2003.
1006: </strong></font><br>
1007: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1008: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1009: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1010: compared to the GPL.
1011: <p>
1012:
1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1014: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1015: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1016: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1017: May 17, 2003.
1018: </strong></font><br>
1019: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1020: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1021: the business section and half of another page inside
1022: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1023: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1024: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1025: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1026: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1027: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1028: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1029: <br>
1030: This article can also be found online at:
1031: <ul>
1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1033: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1034: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1035: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1036: May 17, 2003
1037: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1038: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1040: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1041: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1042: Montreal Gazette,
1043: May 21, 2003
1044: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1045: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1046: <p>
1.346 ian 1047:
1048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1049: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1050: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1051: May 7, 2003.
1052: </strong></font><br>
1053: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1054: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1055: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1056: <p>
1057:
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1059: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1060: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1061: OsOpinion,
1062: May 6, 2003.
1063: </strong></font><br>
1064: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1065: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1066: <br>
1067: This article can also be found online at:
1068: <ul>
1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1070: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1071: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1072: NewsFactor Network.
1073: </strong></font>
1074: </ul>
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1078: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1079: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1080: ITBusiness,
1081: May 2, 2003.
1082: </strong></font><br>
1083: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1084: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1085: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1086: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1090: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1091: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1092: InfoWorld,
1093: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1094: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1095: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1096: <br>
1097: This article can also be found online at:
1098: <ul>
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1100: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1101: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1102: IDG Singapore.
1103: </strong></font>
1104: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1105: <p>
1106:
1.339 jose 1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1108: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1109: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1110: ZDNet,
1111: May 1, 2003.
1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1114: someone using parts from previous articles.
1115: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1116: This article can also be found online at:
1117: <ul>
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1119: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1120: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1121: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1122: </strong></font>
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1124: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1125: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1126: CNET News.com.
1127: </strong></font>
1128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1129: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1130: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1131: ZDNet UK.
1132: </strong></font>
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1134: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1135: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1136: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1137: </strong></font>
1138: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1139: <p>
1.339 jose 1140:
1.341 deraadt 1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1142: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1143: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1144: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1145: May 1, 2003.
1146: </strong></font><br>
1147: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1148: that have been added
1149: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1150: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1151: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1152: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1153: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1154: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1155: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1156: <p>
1157:
1158: </ul>
1159:
1.253 ian 1160: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1161: <ul>
1.255 ian 1162:
1.260 ian 1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1164: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1165: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1166: TechRepublic,
1167: April 28, 2003.
1168: </strong></font><br>
1169: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1170: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1171: work.<br>
1172: Can also be found online at:
1173: <ul>
1174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1175: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1176: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1177: ZDNet UK.
1178: </strong></font>
1179: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1180: <p>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1183: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1184: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1185: IDG,
1186: April 24, 2003.
1187: </strong></font><br>
1188: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1189: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1190: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1191: Can also be found online at:
1192: <ul>
1193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1194: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1195: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1196: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1197: </strong></font>
1198: </ul>
1199: <p>
1200:
1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1202: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1203: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1204: Slate,
1205: April 24, 2003.
1206: </strong></font><br>
1207: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1208: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1209: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1210: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1211: <p>
1212:
1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1214: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1215: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1216: April 24, 2003.
1217: </strong></font><br>
1218: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1219: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1220: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1221: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1222: <p>
1223:
1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1225: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1226: April 24, 2003.
1227: </strong></font><br>
1228: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1229: the free software community".
1230: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1231: other articles.
1232: <p>
1233:
1234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1235: <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 1236: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1237: </strong></font><br>
1238: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1239: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1240: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1241: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1242: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1243: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1244: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1245: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1246: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1247: <br/>
1248: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1249: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1250: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1251: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1252: <br>
1253: Can also be found online at:
1254: <ul>
1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1256: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1257: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1258: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1259: </strong></font>
1260: </ul>
1.324 ian 1261: <p>
1262:
1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1264: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1265: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1266: </strong></font><br>
1267: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1268: article above.
1269: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1270: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1271: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1272: <br>
1273: Can also be found online at:
1274: <ul>
1275: <li>
1276: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1277: </strong></font>
1278: </ul>
1.324 ian 1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1282: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1283: </strong></font><br>
1284: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1285: <p>
1286:
1287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1288: <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.
1289: </strong></font><br>
1290: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1291: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1295: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1296: April 23, 2003.
1297: </strong></font><br>
1298: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1299: <p>
1300:
1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1302: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1303: April 22, 2003.
1304: </strong></font><br>
1305: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1306: <p>
1307:
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1309: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1310: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1311: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1312: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1313: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1314: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1315: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1316: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1317: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1318: Can also be found online at:
1319: <ul>
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1321: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1322: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1323: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1324: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1326: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1327: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1328: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1329: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1330: </ul>
1331: <p>
1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1334: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1335: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1336: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1337: </strong></font><br>
1338: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1339: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1340: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1341: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1342: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1343: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1344: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1345: <p>
1346:
1347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1348: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1349: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1350: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1351: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1352: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1353: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1354: at UPenn and DARPA.
1355: <p>
1356:
1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1358: [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,
1359: France
1.315 deraadt 1360: April 18, 2003.
1361: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1362: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1363: <p>
1364:
1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1366: [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 1367: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1368: </strong></font><br>
1369: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1370: <p>
1371:
1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1373: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1374: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1375: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1376: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1377: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1378: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1379: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1383: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1384: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1385: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1388: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1389: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1390: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1391: <p>
1392:
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1394: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1395: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1396: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1397: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1398: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1399: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1400: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1401: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1402: Can also be found online at:
1403: <ul>
1404: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1405: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1406: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1407: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1408: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1409: <p>
1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1412: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1413: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1414: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1415: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1416: </strong></font><br>
1417: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1418: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1419: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1420: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1421: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1422:
1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1424: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1425: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1426: New York Times.
1427: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1428:
1.273 deraadt 1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1430: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1431: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1432: ABC News.
1433: </strong></font>
1434:
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1436: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1437: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1438: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1439: </strong></font>
1440:
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1442: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1443: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1444: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1445: </strong></font>
1446:
1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1448: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1449: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1450: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1451: </strong></font>
1452:
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1454: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1455: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1456: Times Daily, AL.
1457: </strong></font>
1458:
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1460: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1461: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1462: Boston.com, MA.
1463: </strong></font>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1466: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1467: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1468: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1469: </strong></font>
1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1472: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1473: [Article was pulled]</a>
1474: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1475: </strong></font>
1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1478: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1479: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1480: Infoshop News.
1481: </strong></font>
1482:
1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1484: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1485: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1486: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1487: </strong></font>
1488:
1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1490: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1491: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1492: Raleigh News, NC.
1493: </strong></font>
1494:
1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1496: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1497: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1498: Napa News, CA.
1499: </strong></font>
1500:
1501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1502: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1503: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1504: NEPA News, PA.
1505: </strong></font>
1506:
1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1508: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1509: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1510: Wired News.
1511: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1512: <br>
1513: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1514: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1515: [JAPANESE]
1516: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1517: Wired News Japan</a>
1518: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1519:
1.271 deraadt 1520: </ul>
1521: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1522: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1523: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1524: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1525: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1526: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1527: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1528: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1529: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1530: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1531: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1532: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1533: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1534: <p>
1535: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1536:
1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1538: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1539: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1540: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1541: </strong></font>
1542:
1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1544: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1545: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1546: Miami Herald, FL.
1547: </strong></font>
1548:
1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1550: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1551: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1552: </strong></font>
1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1555: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1556: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1557: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1558: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1559:
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1561: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1562: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1563: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1564: ABC News.
1565: </strong></font>
1566:
1.276 deraadt 1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1568: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1569: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1570: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1571: </strong></font>
1572:
1.286 dhartmei 1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1574: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1575: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1576: Wilmington Star, NC.
1577: </strong></font>
1578:
1.300 jose 1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1580: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1581: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1582: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1583: </strong></font>
1584:
1.309 jose 1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1586: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1587: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1588: Globe Technology.
1589: </strong></font>
1590:
1.263 deraadt 1591: </ul>
1.262 beck 1592: <p>
1593:
1594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1595: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1596: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1597: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1599: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1600: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1601: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1602: <p>
1603:
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1605: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1606: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1607: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1608: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1609: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1610: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1611: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1612: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1613: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1614: and simply restates other press reports.
1615: <p>
1616:
1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1618: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1619: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1620: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1621: </strong></font><br>
1622: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1623: <p>
1624:
1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1626: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1627: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1628: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1629: </strong></font><br>
1630: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1631: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1632: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1633: <p>
1634:
1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1636: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1637: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1638: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1639: April 17, 2003.
1640: </strong></font><br>
1641: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1642: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1643: Tech Anthems</a>
1644: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1645: 4 so far.
1646: <p>
1647:
1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1649: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1650: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1651: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1652: </strong></font><br>
1653: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1654: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1655: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1656: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1657: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1658: Goes on to say:
1659: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1660: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1661: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1662: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1663: This article is also found online at:
1664: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1666: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1667: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1668: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1669: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1671: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1672: ZDnet</a>,
1673: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1674: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1676: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1677: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1678: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1679: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1680: </ul>
1.260 ian 1681: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1682:
1.260 ian 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1684: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1685: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1686: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1687: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1688: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1689: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1690: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1691: without notice or justification.
1692: <p>
1693:
1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1695: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1696: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1697: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1698: </strong></font><br>
1699: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1700: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1701: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1702: effective today, without any warning..."
1703: <p>
1.257 ian 1704:
1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1706: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1707: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1708: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1709: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1710: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1711: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1712: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1713: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1714: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1715: <p>
1716:
1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1718: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1719: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1720: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1723: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1724: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1725: quoting two of them:
1726: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1727: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1728: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1729: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1730: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1731: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1732: <p>
1733:
1.255 ian 1734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1735: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1736: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1737: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1738: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1739: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1743: [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 1744: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1745: </strong></font><br>
1746: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1747: <p>
1748:
1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1750: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1751: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1752: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1753: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1754: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1755: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1756: security experts for more than three decades."
1757: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1758: <p>
1.261 ian 1759:
1.254 drahn 1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1761: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1762: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1763: </strong></font><br>
1764: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1765: <p>
1766:
1767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1768: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1769: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1770: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1771: </strong></font><br>
1772: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1773: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1774: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1775: <p>
1776:
1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1778: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1779: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1780: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1781: </strong></font><br>
1782: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1783: from US DARPA.
1784: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1785: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1786: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1787: the BSD license.
1788: <p>
1789: </ul>
1790:
1.251 ian 1791: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1792: <ul>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1795: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1796: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1797: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1798: </strong></font><br>
1799:
1800: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1801: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1802: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1803: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1804: <p>
1805:
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1807: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1808: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1809: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1810: </strong></font><br>
1811: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1812: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1813: Mentions
1814: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1815: and
1816: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1817: programs.
1818: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1819: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1820: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1821: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1822: <p>
1.325 ian 1823: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1824: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1825:
1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1827: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1828: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1829: </strong></font><br>
1830: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1831: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1832: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1833: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1834: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1835: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1836: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1837: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1838: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1839: put into service."
1840: <p>
1841: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1842: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1843: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1844: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1845: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1846: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1847: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1848: computers with security features."
1849: <p>
1.329 ian 1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1852: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1853: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1854: Slate,
1855: March 3, 2003.
1856: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1857: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1858: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1859: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1860: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1861: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1862: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1863: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1864: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1865: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1866: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1867: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1868: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1869: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1870: of more secure open-source solutions like
1871: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1872: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1873: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1874: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1875: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1876: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1877: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1878: the Beltway."
1879: <p>
1.251 ian 1880: </ul>
1881:
1.249 jufi 1882: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1883: <ul>
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1885: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
1886: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1887: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 1888: </strong></font><br>
1889: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
1890: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 1891: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 1892: <p>
1.334 ian 1893:
1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1895: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
1896: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
1897: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
1898: </strong></font><br>
1899: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
1900: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
1901: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
1902: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
1903: "... the hypothetical question ...
1904: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
1905: <br>
1906: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
1907: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
1908: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
1909: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
1910: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
1911: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 1912: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 1913: support network security.
1914: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
1915: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
1916: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
1917: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
1918: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
1919: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
1920: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
1921: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
1922: <br>
1923: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
1924: <p>
1925:
1.249 jufi 1926: </ul>
1927:
1.246 jufi 1928: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1929: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1932: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 1933: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1934: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1935: </strong></font><br>
1936: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
1937: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1938: <p>
1939:
1.247 jufi 1940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1941: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
1942: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1943: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1946: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1947: <p>
1948:
1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1950: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1951: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1952: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1953: </strong></font><br>
1954: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1955: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1956: <p>
1.247 jufi 1957: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1958:
1.244 jufi 1959: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1960: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1961:
1.247 jufi 1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1963: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1964: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1965: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1966: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1969: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1970: md5 digests.
1971: <p>
1972:
1.247 jufi 1973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1974: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1975: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1976: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1977: </strong></font><br>
1978: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1979: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1980: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1981: right the first time."
1982: <p>
1.247 jufi 1983: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1984:
1985:
1986: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1987: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1990: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1991: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1992: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1993: </strong></font><br>
1994: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1995: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1996: part 6</a>.
1997: <p>
1998:
1.247 jufi 1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2000: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2001: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2002: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2003: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2004: </strong></font><br>
2005: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2006: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2007: <p>
1.301 jose 2008:
2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2010: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2011: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2012: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2013: </strong></font><br>
2014:
2015: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2016: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2017: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2018: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2019: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2020: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2021: <i>Here's the
2022: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2023: <p>
1.247 jufi 2024: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2025:
2026: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2027: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2028:
1.247 jufi 2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2030: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2031: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2032: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2033: </strong></font><br>
2034: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2035: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2036: <p>
2037:
1.247 jufi 2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2039: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2040: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2041: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2042: </strong></font><br>
2043: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2044: this time using pf.
2045: <p>
1.247 jufi 2046: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2047:
2048: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2049: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2050:
1.247 jufi 2051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2052: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2053: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2054: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2055: </strong></font><br>
2056: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2057: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2058: their rotation.
2059: <p>
2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2062: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2063: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2064: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2065: </strong></font><br>
2066: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2067: <p>
1.247 jufi 2068: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2069:
1.239 jufi 2070: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2071: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2074: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2075: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2076: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2077: </strong></font><br>
2078: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2079: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2080: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2081: <p>
2082:
1.247 jufi 2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2084: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2085: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2086: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2087: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2088: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2089: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2090: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2091: <p>
1.247 jufi 2092: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2093:
1.235 lebel 2094: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2095: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2096:
1.239 jufi 2097:
1.247 jufi 2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2099: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2100: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2101: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2102: </strong></font><br>
2103: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2104: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2105: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2106: <p>
1.301 jose 2107:
1.247 jufi 2108: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2109:
1.228 horacio 2110: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2111: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2112:
1.247 jufi 2113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2114: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2115: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2116: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2117: </strong></font><br>
2118: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2119: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2120: <p>
2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2123: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2124: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2125: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2126: </strong></font><br>
2127: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2128: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2129: <p>
2130:
1.247 jufi 2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2132: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2133: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2134: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2135: </strong></font><br>
2136: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2137: on the desktop of his parents.
2138: <p>
2139:
1.247 jufi 2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2141: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2142: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2143: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2144: </strong></font><br>
2145: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2146: using IPFilter.
2147:
2148: <p>
2149:
1.247 jufi 2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2151: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2152: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2153: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2154: </strong></font><br>
2155: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2156: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2157: perspectives of the four OS.
2158: <br>
2159: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2160: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2161: <p>
2162:
1.247 jufi 2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2164: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2165: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2166: software and security</a>,
2167: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2168: </strong></font><br>
2169:
2170: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2171: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2172: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2173: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2174: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2175: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2176: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2177: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2178: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2179: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2180: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2181: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2182: <p>
1.247 jufi 2183: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2184:
1.225 horacio 2185: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2186: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2187:
1.247 jufi 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2189: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2190: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2191: Interview</a>,
2192: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2193: </strong></font><br>
2194:
2195: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2196: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2197: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2198: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2199: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2200: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2201: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2202: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2203: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2204: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2205: of choice.
2206: <p>
1.247 jufi 2207: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2208:
2209: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2210: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2211:
1.247 jufi 2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2213: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2214: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2215: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2216: </strong></font><br>
2217:
2218: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2219: <p>
2220:
1.247 jufi 2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2222: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2223: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2224: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2225: </strong></font><br>
2226:
2227: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2228: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2229: <p>
1.247 jufi 2230: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2231:
1.218 horacio 2232: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2233: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2234:
1.247 jufi 2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2236: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2237: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2238: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2239: </strong></font><br>
2240:
2241: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2242: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2243: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2244: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2245: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2246: subjects. Worth a read.
2247: <p>
2248:
2249:
1.247 jufi 2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2251: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2252: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2253: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2254: </strong></font><br>
2255:
2256: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2257: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2258: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2259: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2260: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2261: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2262: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2263: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2264: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2265: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2266: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2267: on other operating systems.<br>
2268: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2269: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2270: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2271: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2272: <p>
2273:
1.247 jufi 2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2275: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2276: Operating System 2010</a>,
2277: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2278: </strong></font><br>
2279:
2280: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2281: covering the level of software integration into the core
2282: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2283: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2284: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2285: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2286: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2287: <p>
2288:
1.247 jufi 2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2290: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2291: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2292: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2293: </strong></font><br>
2294:
2295: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2296: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2297: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2298: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2299: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2300: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2301: <p>
1.247 jufi 2302: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2303:
1.210 jufi 2304: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2305: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2306:
1.247 jufi 2307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2308: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2309: Already a Contender</a>,
2310: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2311: </strong></font><br>
2312:
2313: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2314: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2315: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2316: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2317: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2318: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2319: <p>
2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2322: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2323: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2324: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2325: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2326:
1.224 horacio 2327: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2328: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2329: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2330: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2331: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2332: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2333: <p>
1.247 jufi 2334: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2335:
2336: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2337: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2338:
1.247 jufi 2339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2340: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2341: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2342: Division</a>,
2343: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2344: </strong></font><br>
2345:
2346: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2347: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2348: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2349: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2350: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2351: investment</em>.<br>
2352: The implementation details can be seen on their
2353: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2354: <p>
2355:
1.247 jufi 2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2357: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2358: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2359: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2360: </strong></font><br>
2361:
2362: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2363: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2364: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2365: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2366: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2367: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2368: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2369: <p>
2370:
2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2372: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2373: Thinking about Security</a>,
2374: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2375: </strong></font><br>
2376:
2377: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2378: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2379: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2380: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2381: to time.<br>
2382: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2383: system and just the most secure system.
2384: <p>
2385:
1.247 jufi 2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2387: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2388: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2389: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2390: </strong></font><br>
2391:
2392: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2393: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2394: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2395: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2396: choice:<br>
2397: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2398: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2399: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2400: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2401: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2402: network security devices and as such must be well
2403: armored."</em><br>
2404: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2405: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2406: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2407: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2408: <br>
2409: Bravo!
2410: <p>
1.247 jufi 2411: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2412:
1.207 ian 2413: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2414: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2415:
1.247 jufi 2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2417: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2418: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2419: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2420:
1.207 ian 2421: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2422: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2423: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2424: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2425: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2426: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2427: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2428: <p>
1.247 jufi 2429: </ul>
1.207 ian 2430:
1.194 jufi 2431: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2432: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2433:
1.247 jufi 2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2435: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2436: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2437: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2438: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2439:
1.240 miod 2440: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2441: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2442: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2443: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2444: <p>
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2447: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2448: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2449: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2450:
2451: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2452: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2453: <p>
2454:
2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2456: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2457: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2458: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2459:
2460: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2461: <p>
2462:
2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2464: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2465: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2466: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2467: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2468:
1.240 miod 2469: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2470: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2471: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2472: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2473: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2474: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2475: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2476: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2477: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2478: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2479: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2480: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2481: <p>
2482:
1.247 jufi 2483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2484: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2485: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2486: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2487: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2488:
1.194 jufi 2489: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2490: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2491: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2492: <br>
2493: The new
2494: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2495: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2496: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2497: <p>
1.247 jufi 2498: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2499:
1.190 horacio 2500: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2501: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2502:
1.247 jufi 2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2504:
2505: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2506: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2507:
1.301 jose 2508:
1.191 jufi 2509: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2510: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2511:
2512: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2513: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2514:
1.212 horacio 2515: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2516: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2517: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2518:
1.211 horacio 2519: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2520: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2521: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2522:
1.247 jufi 2523: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2524: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2525:
1.247 jufi 2526: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2527: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2528:
1.212 horacio 2529: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2530: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2531: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2532:
2533: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2534: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2535:
2536: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2537: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2538:
1.301 jose 2539: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2540: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2541:
1.191 jufi 2542: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2543: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2544:
2545: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2546: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2547:
1.192 jufi 2548: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2549: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2550: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2551:
1.193 deraadt 2552: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2553: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2554: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2557: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2558:
1.247 jufi 2559: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2560: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2561: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2562:
1.213 horacio 2563: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2564: 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 2565: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2566:
1.190 horacio 2567: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2568: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2569: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2570: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2571: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2572: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2573: <p>
1.190 horacio 2574:
1.247 jufi 2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2576: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2577: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2578: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2579: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2580:
1.195 jufi 2581: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2582: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2583: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2584: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2585: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2586: <p>
2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2589: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2590: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2591: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2592: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2593:
1.191 jufi 2594: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2595: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2596: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2597: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2598: <p>
2599:
2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2601: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2602: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2603: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2604:
2605: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2606: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2607: <p>
1.247 jufi 2608: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2609:
1.191 jufi 2610:
1.186 jufi 2611: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2612: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2613:
1.247 jufi 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2615: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2616: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2617: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2618: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2619:
1.188 jufi 2620: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2621: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2622: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2623: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2624: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2625: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2626: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2627: <p>
2628:
1.301 jose 2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2630: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2631: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2632: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2633:
2634: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2635: <p>
1.191 jufi 2636:
1.247 jufi 2637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2638: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2639: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2640: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2641: </strong></font><br>
2642:
2643: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2644: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2645: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2646: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2647: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2648: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2649: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2650: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2651: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2652: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2653: familiar?
2654: <p>
1.247 jufi 2655: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2656:
1.178 louis 2657: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2658: <ul>
1.178 louis 2659:
1.247 jufi 2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2661: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2662: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2663: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2664: </strong></font><br>
2665:
2666: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2667: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2668: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2669: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2670: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2671: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2672: <p>
2673:
1.247 jufi 2674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2675: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2676: Open source under the hood</a>,
2677: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2678: </strong></font><br>
2679:
2680: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2681: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2682: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2683: <p>
2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2686: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2687: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2688: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2689: </strong></font><br>
2690:
2691: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2692: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2693: <p>
1.247 jufi 2694: </ul>
1.179 louis 2695:
1.174 louis 2696:
1.175 louis 2697: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2698: <ul>
1.175 louis 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2701: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2702: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2703: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2707: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2708: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2709: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2710: <p>
2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2713: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2714: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2715: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2716: </strong></font><br>
2717:
2718: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2719: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2720: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2721: <p>
1.247 jufi 2722: </ul>
1.175 louis 2723:
1.176 louis 2724:
1.172 mickey 2725: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2726: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2729: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2730: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2731: </strong></font><br>
2732:
2733: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2734: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2735: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2736: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2737: <p>
2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2740: <a
1.269 deraadt 2741: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2742: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2743: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745:
2746: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2747: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2748: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2752: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2753: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2754: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2755: </strong></font><br>
2756:
2757: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2758: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2759: <p>
2760:
1.247 jufi 2761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2762: <a
1.269 deraadt 2763: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2764: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2765: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2766: </strong></font><br>
2767:
2768: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2769: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2770: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2771: our own Theo de Raadt.
2772: <p>
2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2775: <a
1.269 deraadt 2776: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2777: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2778: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2782: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2783: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2784: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2785: shut down.]
2786: <p>
2787:
1.247 jufi 2788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2789: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2790: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2791: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2792: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2793: </strong></font><br>
2794:
2795: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2796: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2797: <p>
1.247 jufi 2798: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2799:
1.161 louis 2800: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2801: <ul>
1.161 louis 2802:
1.247 jufi 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2804: <a
1.269 deraadt 2805: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2806: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2807: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2808: </strong></font><br>
2809:
2810: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2811: by John Wolley
2812: <p>
2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2815: <a
1.269 deraadt 2816: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2817: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2818: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2819: </strong></font><br>
2820:
2821: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2822: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2823: OpenBSD).
2824: <p>
2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2827: <a
1.247 jufi 2828: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2829: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2830: </strong></font><br>
2831:
2832: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2833: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2834: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2835: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2836: and hindsight.
2837: <p>
2838:
1.247 jufi 2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2840: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2841: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2845: <p>
2846:
1.247 jufi 2847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2848: <a
1.168 provos 2849: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2850: December 7, 2000
2851: </strong></font><br>
2852:
2853: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2854: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2855: us explain.
2856: <p>
2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2859: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2860: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2861: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2862: December 6, 2000
2863: </strong></font><br>
2864:
2865: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2866: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2867: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2868: <p>
2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2871: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2872: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2873: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2874: </strong></font><br>
2875:
2876: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2877: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2878: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2879: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2880: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2881: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2882: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2883: <p>
2884:
2885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 2886: <a
1.226 horacio 2887: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
2888: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 2889: </strong></font><br>
2890:
2891: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 2892: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 2893: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 2894: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2895: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2896: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2897: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 2898: <p>
1.162 millert 2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 2901: <a
1.161 louis 2902: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
2903: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
2904: </strong></font><br>
2905:
2906: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
2907: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
2908: <p>
2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2911: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
2912: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
2913: </strong></font><br>
2914:
2915: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
2916: <p>
2917:
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 2920: <a
1.226 horacio 2921: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
2922: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
2923: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 2924: </strong></font><br>
2925:
2926: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
2927: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
2928: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
2929: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
2930: <p>
1.247 jufi 2931: </ul>
1.169 louis 2932:
1.158 louis 2933: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2934: <ul>
1.147 louis 2935:
1.247 jufi 2936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2937: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
2938: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 2939: </strong></font><br>
2940:
2941: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
2942: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
2943: <p>
2944:
1.247 jufi 2945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2946: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2947: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2948: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2949: </strong></font><br>
2950: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2951: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2955: <a
2956: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2957: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2958: </strong></font><br>
2959:
2960: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2961: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2962: <p>
2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2965: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2966: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2967: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2968:
1.213 horacio 2969: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 2970: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 2971: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2972: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2973: <p>
1.215 horacio 2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2976: <a
2977: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2978: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2979: </strong></font><br>
2980:
2981: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2982: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2983: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2984: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2985: much of the attitude too).
2986: <p>
1.161 louis 2987:
1.247 jufi 2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2989: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2990: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2991: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2992:
1.157 louis 2993: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2994: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2995: <p>
1.247 jufi 2996: </ul>
1.157 louis 2997:
2998: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2999: <ul>
1.157 louis 3000:
1.247 jufi 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3002: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3003: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3004: </strong></font><br>
3005:
3006: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3007: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3008: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3009: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3010: <p>
3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3013: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3014: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3015: </strong></font><br>
3016:
3017: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3018: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3019: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3020: it because they love coding...
3021: <p>
3022:
1.247 jufi 3023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3024: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3025: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3026: </strong></font><br>
3027:
3028: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3029: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3030: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3031: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3032: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3033: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3034: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3035: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3036: <p>
3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3039: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3040: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3041: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3045: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3046: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3047: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3048: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3049: the pizza.
3050: <p>
3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3053: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3054: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3055: </strong></font><br>
3056:
3057: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3058: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3059: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3060: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3061: problems.
3062: <p>
3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3065: <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 3066: </strong></font><br>
3067:
1.222 miod 3068: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3069: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3070: - whether they like it or not.
3071: <p>
3072:
1.247 jufi 3073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3074: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3075: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3076: </strong></font><br>
3077:
3078: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3079: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3080: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3081: <p>
1.148 aaron 3082:
1.247 jufi 3083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3084: <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 3085: </strong></font><br>
3086:
3087: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3088: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3089: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3090: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3091: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3092: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3093: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3094: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3095: <p>
3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3098: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3099: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3100: </strong></font><br>
3101:
3102: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3103: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3104: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3105: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3106: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3107: <p>
1.247 jufi 3108: </ul>
1.147 louis 3109:
1.138 louis 3110: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3111: <ul>
1.138 louis 3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3114: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3115: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3116: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3117: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3118: </strong></font><br>
3119:
1.227 horacio 3120: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3121: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3122: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3123: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3124: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3125: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3126: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3127: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3128: <p>
3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3131: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3132: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3133: </strong></font><br>
3134:
3135: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3136: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3137: groups, and even Linux.
3138: <p>
3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3141: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3142: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3143: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3144: </strong></font><br>
3145:
3146: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3147: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3148: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3149: library after installing the OS.
3150: <p>
3151:
1.247 jufi 3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3153: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3154: Sys Admin, September 2000
3155: </strong></font><br>
3156:
3157: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3158: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3159: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3160: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3161: (<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>,
3162: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3163: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3164: <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 3165: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3166: out of the system.
3167: <p>
3168:
1.247 jufi 3169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3170: <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
3171: </strong></font><br>
3172:
3173: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3174: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3175: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3176: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3177: the IP filtering and address translation.
3178: <p>
1.301 jose 3179:
3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3181: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3182: </strong></font><br>
3183:
3184: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3185: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3186: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3187: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3188: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3189: <p>
1.247 jufi 3190: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3191:
1.131 louis 3192: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3193: <ul>
1.131 louis 3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3196: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3197: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3198: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3199: </strong></font><br>
3200:
3201: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3202: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3203: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3204: <p>
3205:
1.247 jufi 3206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3207: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3208: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3209: </strong></font><br>
3210:
3211: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3212: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3213: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3214: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3215: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3216: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3217: note of"</i>.
3218: <p>
3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3221: <a
1.247 jufi 3222: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3223: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3224: </strong></font><br>
3225:
3226: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3227: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3228: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3229: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3230: <p>
3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3233: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3234: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3235: </strong></font><br>
3236:
3237: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3238: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3239: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3240: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3241: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3242: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3243: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3244: <p>
3245:
1.247 jufi 3246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3247: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3248: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3249: 2000
3250: </strong></font><br>
3251:
3252: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3253: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3254: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3255: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3256: against current industry practices.
3257: <p>
3258:
1.247 jufi 3259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3260: <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
3261: </strong></font><br>
3262:
3263: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3264: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3265: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3266: <p>
3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3269: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3270: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3274: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3275: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3276: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3277: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3278: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3279: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3280: <p>
3281:
1.247 jufi 3282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3283: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3284: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3285: </strong></font><br>
3286:
3287: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3288: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3289: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3290: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3291: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3292: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3293: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3294: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3295: <p>
1.247 jufi 3296: </ul>
1.131 louis 3297:
1.118 louis 3298: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3299: <ul>
1.118 louis 3300:
1.247 jufi 3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3302: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3303: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3304: </strong></font><br>
3305:
3306: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3307: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3308: about time. The article mentions that
3309: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3310: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3311: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3312: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3313: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3314: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3315: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3316: <p>
3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3319: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3320: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3321: </strong></font><br>
3322:
3323: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3324: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3325: of OpenSSH.
3326: <p>
3327:
1.247 jufi 3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3329: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3330: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3331: </strong></font><br>
3332:
3333: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3334: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3335: bridging.
3336: <p>
3337:
1.247 jufi 3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3339: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3340: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3341: </strong></font><br>
3342:
1.121 deraadt 3343: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3344: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3345: <p>
3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3348: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3349: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3350: </strong></font><br>
3351:
3352: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3353: <p>
3354:
1.247 jufi 3355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3356: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3357: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3358: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3359: </strong></font><br>
3360:
1.120 deraadt 3361: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3362: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3363: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3364: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3365: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3366: <p>
3367:
1.247 jufi 3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3369: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3370: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
1.222 miod 3373: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3374: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3375: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3376: protocols and their quirks.
3377: <p>
3378:
1.247 jufi 3379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3380: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3381: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3382: </strong></font><br>
3383:
3384: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3385: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3386: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3387: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3388: <p>
3389:
1.247 jufi 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3391: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3392: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3393: </strong></font><br>
3394:
3395: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3396: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3397: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3398: <p>
3399:
1.247 jufi 3400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3401: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3402: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3403: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3404: </strong></font><br>
3405:
3406: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3407: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3408: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3409: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3410: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3411: <p>
1.247 jufi 3412: </ul>
1.118 louis 3413:
1.104 louis 3414: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3415: <ul>
1.104 louis 3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3418: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3419: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3420: </strong></font><br>
3421:
3422: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3423: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3424: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3425: be a bit dry.
3426: <p>
3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3429: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3430: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3431: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3432: </strong></font><br>
3433: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3434: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3435: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3436: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3437: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3438: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3439: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3440: <p>
3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3443: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3444: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3445: 2000
1.128 louis 3446: </strong></font><br>
3447:
3448: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3449: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3450: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3451: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3452: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3453: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3454: <p>
3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3457: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3458: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3459: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3460:
3461: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3462: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3463: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3464: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3465: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3466: <p>
1.110 louis 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3469: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3470: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3471: </strong></font><br>
3472:
3473: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3474: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3475: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3476: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3477: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3478: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3479: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3480: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3481: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3482: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3483: <p>
3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3486: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3487: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3488:
3489: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3490: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3491: <p>
1.108 louis 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3494: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3495: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3496: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3497:
3498: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3499: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3500: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3501: <p>
1.106 louis 3502:
1.247 jufi 3503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3504: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3505: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3506: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3507:
3508: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3509: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3510: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3511: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3512: <p>
1.107 louis 3513:
1.247 jufi 3514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3515: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3516: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3517: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3518:
3519: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3520: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3521: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3522: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3523: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3524: <p>
1.105 louis 3525:
1.247 jufi 3526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3527: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3528: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3529: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3530:
1.113 naddy 3531: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3532: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3533: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3534: <p>
1.104 louis 3535:
1.247 jufi 3536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3537: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3538: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3539: </strong></font><br>
3540:
3541: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3542: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3543: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3544: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3545: <p>
1.301 jose 3546:
3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3548: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3549: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3550: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3551:
3552: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3553: hardware-supported cryptography.
3554: <p>
1.247 jufi 3555: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3556:
1.85 louis 3557: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3558: <ul>
1.85 louis 3559:
1.247 jufi 3560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3561: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3562: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3563: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3564:
3565: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3566: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3567: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3568: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3569: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3570: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3571: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3572: <p>
1.99 louis 3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3575: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3576: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3577: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3578:
3579: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3580: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3581: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3582: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3583: <p>
1.100 louis 3584:
1.247 jufi 3585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3586: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3587: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3588: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3589:
3590: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3591: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3592: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3593: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3594: <p>
1.95 louis 3595:
1.247 jufi 3596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3597: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3598: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3599: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3600:
3601: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3602: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3603: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3604: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3605: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3606: <p>
1.92 louis 3607:
1.247 jufi 3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3609: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3610: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3611: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3612:
3613: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3614: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3615: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3616: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3617: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3618: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3619: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3620: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3621: <p>
1.91 louis 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3624: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3625: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3626: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3627:
3628: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3629: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3630: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3631: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3632: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3633: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3634: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3635: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3636: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3637: <p>
1.90 louis 3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3640: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3641: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3642: </strong></font><br>
3643: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3644: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3645: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3646: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3647: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3648: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3649: <p>
3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3652: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3653: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3654: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3655:
1.113 naddy 3656: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3657: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3658: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3659: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3660: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3661: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3662: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3663: <p>
1.87 louis 3664:
1.247 jufi 3665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3666: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3667: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3668: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3669:
3670: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3671: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3672: <p>
1.85 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3675: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3676: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3677: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3678:
3679: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3680: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3681: <p>
3682:
3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3684: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3685: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3686: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3687:
3688: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3689: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3690: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3691: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3692: <p>
1.89 louis 3693:
1.247 jufi 3694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3695: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3696: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3697: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3698:
3699: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3700: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3701: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3702: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3703: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3704: </ul>
1.85 louis 3705:
1.78 deraadt 3706: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3707: <ul>
1.74 louis 3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3710: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3711: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3712: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3713: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3714:
3715: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3716: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3717: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3718: <p>
1.83 louis 3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3721: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3722: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3723: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3724:
3725: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3726: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3727: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3728: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3729: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3730: <p>
1.93 louis 3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3733: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3734: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3735: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3736: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3737:
1.83 louis 3738: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3739: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3740: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3741: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3742: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3743: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3744: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3745: <p>
1.82 aaron 3746:
1.247 jufi 3747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3748: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3749: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3750: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3751:
1.83 louis 3752: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3753: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3754: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3755: <p>
1.80 louis 3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3758: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3759: Bad Press</a>,
3760: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3761: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3762:
3763: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3764: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3765: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3766: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3767: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3768: <p>
1.247 jufi 3769: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3770:
3771: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3772: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3773:
1.247 jufi 3774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3775: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3776: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3777: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3778: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3779:
3780: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3781: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3782: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3783: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3784: <p>
1.74 louis 3785:
1.247 jufi 3786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3787: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3788: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3789: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3790:
1.219 horacio 3791: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3792: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3793: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3794: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3795: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3796: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3797: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3798: <p>
1.88 louis 3799:
1.247 jufi 3800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3801: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3802: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3803: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3804:
3805: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3806: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3807: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3808: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3809: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3810: <p>
1.81 louis 3811:
1.247 jufi 3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3813: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3814: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3815: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3816:
3817: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3818: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3819: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3820: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3821: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3822: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3823: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3824: <p>
1.90 louis 3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3827: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3828: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3829: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3830:
3831: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3832: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3833: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3834: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3835: <p>
1.247 jufi 3836: </ul>
1.71 louis 3837:
1.69 deraadt 3838: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3839: <ul>
1.70 louis 3840:
1.247 jufi 3841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3842: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3843: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3844: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3845:
3846: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3847: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3848: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3849: <p>
1.70 louis 3850:
1.247 jufi 3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3852: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3853: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3854: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3855:
3856: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3857: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3858: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3859: <p>
1.68 louis 3860:
1.247 jufi 3861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3862: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3863: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3864: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3865: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3866:
1.111 jufi 3867: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3868: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3869: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3870: "secure by default" installation.
3871: <p>
1.64 louis 3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3874: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3875: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3876: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3877:
1.113 naddy 3878: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3879: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3880: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3881: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3882: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3883: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3884: <p>
1.66 louis 3885:
1.247 jufi 3886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3887: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 3888: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3889: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3890:
3891: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 3892: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 3893: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
3894: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
3895: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 3896: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
3897: <p>
1.83 louis 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3900: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 3901: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3902: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3903:
3904: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 3905: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
3906: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 3907: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
3908: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 3909: <p>
1.64 louis 3910:
1.247 jufi 3911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3912: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 3913: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 3914: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 3915:
3916: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
3917: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 3918: <p>
1.301 jose 3919:
3920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3921: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
3922: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
3923: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
3924: </strong></font><br>
3925:
3926: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
3927: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3928: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
3929: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
3930: Giving way to
3931: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3932: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3933: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3934: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
3935: <p>
1.247 jufi 3936: </ul>
1.65 louis 3937:
1.69 deraadt 3938: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3939: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3940:
1.247 jufi 3941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3942: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 3943: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3944: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3945:
3946: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3947: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3948: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3949: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3950: <p>
1.88 louis 3951:
1.247 jufi 3952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3953: <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 3954: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3955:
3956: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3957: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3958: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3959: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3960: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3961: <p>
1.60 louis 3962:
1.247 jufi 3963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3964: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 3965: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3966: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3967: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3968:
3969: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3970: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3971: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3972: <p>
1.58 louis 3973:
1.247 jufi 3974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3975: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3976: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3977:
3978: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3979: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3980: <p>
1.53 louis 3981:
1.247 jufi 3982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3983: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3984: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3985: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3986:
3987: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3988: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3989: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3990: <p>
1.99 louis 3991:
1.247 jufi 3992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3993: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3994: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3995:
3996: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3997: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3998: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3999: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4000: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4003: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4004: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4005: </strong></font><br>
4006:
4007: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4008: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4009: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4010: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4011: <p>
4012:
1.247 jufi 4013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4014: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4015: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4016: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4017:
4018: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4019: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4020: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4021:
1.247 jufi 4022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4023: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4024: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4025:
4026: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4027: in
1.247 jufi 4028: <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 4029: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4030: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4031: <p>
1.53 louis 4032:
1.247 jufi 4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4034: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4035: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4036: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4037: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4038:
1.58 louis 4039: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4040: <p>
1.301 jose 4041:
4042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4043: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4044: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4045: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4046: Informacyjny, January 2000
4047: </strong></font><br>
4048:
4049: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4050: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4051: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4052: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4053: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4054: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4055: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4056: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4057: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4058: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4059: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4060: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4061: <p>
4062:
4063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4064: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4065: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4066: </strong></font><br>
4067:
4068: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4069: <p>
4070: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4071:
1.69 deraadt 4072: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4073: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4074:
1.247 jufi 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4076: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4077: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4078: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4079: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4080:
1.58 louis 4081: Kurt Seifried
4082: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4083: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4084: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4085: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4088: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4089: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4090: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4091:
4092: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4093: <p>
1.96 louis 4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4096: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4097: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4098: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4099: </strong></font><br>
4100:
4101: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4102: <p>
4103:
4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4105: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4106: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4107: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4108:
4109: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4110: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4111: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4112: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4113: <p>
1.247 jufi 4114: </ul>
1.86 louis 4115:
1.69 deraadt 4116: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4117: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4118:
1.247 jufi 4119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4120: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4121: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4122: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4123:
4124: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4125: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4126: <p>
1.61 louis 4127:
1.247 jufi 4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4129: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4130: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4131: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4133:
4134: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4135: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4136: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4137: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4138: right -- or at least strives to".
4139: <p>
1.48 louis 4140:
1.247 jufi 4141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4142: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4143: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4144: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4145: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4146: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4147: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4148: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4149: <p>
1.61 louis 4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <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 4152: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4153: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4154:
4155: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4156: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4157: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4158: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4159: <p>
1.46 louis 4160:
1.247 jufi 4161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4162: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4163: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4164: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4165:
4166: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4167: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4168: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4171: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4172: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4173: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4174:
4175: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4176: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4177: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4178: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4179: <p>
1.247 jufi 4180: </ul>
1.70 louis 4181:
1.69 deraadt 4182: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4183: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4186: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4187: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4188: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4189: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4190:
4191: Kurt Seifried
4192: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4193: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4194: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4195: <p>
1.44 philen 4196:
1.247 jufi 4197: <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 4198: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4199: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4200:
4201: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4202: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4203:
1.247 jufi 4204: <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 4205: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4206: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4207:
4208: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4209: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <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 4212: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4213: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4214:
4215: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4216: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4217: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4218: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4219: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4220:
1.247 jufi 4221: <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 4222: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4223: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4224:
1.36 louis 4225: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4226: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4229: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4230: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4231: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4232:
4233: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4234: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4235: </ul>
1.38 louis 4236:
1.69 deraadt 4237: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4238: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4239:
1.247 jufi 4240: <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 4241: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4242: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4243:
4244: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4245: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4246: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4247:
1.113 naddy 4248: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4249: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4250: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4251: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4252:
4253: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4254: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4255: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4256: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4257: <blockquote>
4258: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4259: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4260: <br>
4261: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4262: </code>
4263: </blockquote>
4264: <p>
4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4267: <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 4268: <p>
4269:
4270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4271: <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 4272: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4273:
4274: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4275: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4276: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4277: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4278:
1.247 jufi 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4280: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4281: Sept. 28, 1999
4282: </strong></font><br>
4283:
4284: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4285: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4286: translating and reprinting articles from
4287: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4288: <p>
4289:
4290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4291: <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 4292: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4293:
4294: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4295: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4296: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4297: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4298: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4299: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4300: <p>
1.19 louis 4301:
1.113 naddy 4302: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4303: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4304: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4305:
4306: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4307: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4308: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4309: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4310: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4311: <p>
1.16 louis 4312:
1.247 jufi 4313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4314: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4315: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4316: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4317:
1.57 louis 4318: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4319: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4320: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4321: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4324: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4325: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4326: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4327:
1.113 naddy 4328: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4329:
1.247 jufi 4330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4331: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4332: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4333: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4334:
1.23 louis 4335: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4336: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4337: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4338: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4339: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4340: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4341:
1.247 jufi 4342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4343: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4344: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4345: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4346:
1.199 pvalchev 4347: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4348: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4349: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4350: installation.
1.113 naddy 4351: <p>
1.47 louis 4352:
1.247 jufi 4353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4354: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4355: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4356: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4357:
1.301 jose 4358: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4359: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4360: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4361: </ul>
1.57 louis 4362:
1.69 deraadt 4363: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4364: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4365:
1.247 jufi 4366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4367: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4368: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4369: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4370:
4371: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4372: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4373: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4374: <p>
1.12 louis 4375:
1.247 jufi 4376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4377: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4378: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4379: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4380:
4381: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4382: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4383: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4384: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4385: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4386: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4387: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4388: <p>
1.247 jufi 4389: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4390:
1.69 deraadt 4391: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4392: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4395: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4396: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4397:
4398: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4399: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4400: available."
1.113 naddy 4401: <p>
1.301 jose 4402:
4403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4404: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4405: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4406: </strong></font><br>
4407:
4408: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4409: <p>
1.247 jufi 4410: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4411:
1.69 deraadt 4412: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4413: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4414:
1.247 jufi 4415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4416: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4417: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4418:
4419: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4420: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4421: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4422: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4423: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4424: <p>
1.33 louis 4425:
1.247 jufi 4426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4427: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4428: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4429: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4430:
1.113 naddy 4431: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4432: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4433: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4434: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4435: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4436: <p>
1.247 jufi 4437: </ul>
1.57 louis 4438:
1.69 deraadt 4439: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4440: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4441:
1.247 jufi 4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4443: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4444: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4445: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4446:
4447: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4448: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4449: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4450:
1.247 jufi 4451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4452: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4453: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4454: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4455: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4456:
4457: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4458: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4461: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4462:
1.113 naddy 4463: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4464:
1.247 jufi 4465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4466: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4467: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4468: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4469:
4470: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4471: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4472: </ul>
1.23 louis 4473:
1.69 deraadt 4474: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4475: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4476:
1.247 jufi 4477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4478: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4479: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4480:
4481: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4482: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4483: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4486: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4487: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4488: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4489:
4490: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4491: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4492: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4493: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4494: </ul>
1.57 louis 4495:
1.69 deraadt 4496: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4497: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4498:
1.247 jufi 4499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4500: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4501: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4502: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4503:
4504: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4505: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4506: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4507: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4508: <p>
1.15 louis 4509:
1.247 jufi 4510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4511: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4512: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4513: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4514:
4515: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4516: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4517: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4518: columns."
1.113 naddy 4519: <p>
1.247 jufi 4520: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4521:
1.69 deraadt 4522: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4523: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4526: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4527: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4528: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4529:
4530: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4531: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4532:
1.113 naddy 4533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4534: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4535: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4536:
4537: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4538: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4539: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4540: </ul>
1.57 louis 4541:
1.69 deraadt 4542: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4543: <ul>
1.301 jose 4544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4545: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4546: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4547: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4548:
4549: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4550: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4551: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4552: <p>
4553:
4554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4555: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4556: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4557: Nov 13, 1998 and
4558: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4559: Datateknik</a>,
4560: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4561:
1.380 saad 4562: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4563: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4564: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4565: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4566: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4567:
1.113 naddy 4568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4569: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4570: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4571: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4572:
1.222 miod 4573: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4574: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4575: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4576: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4577: <p>
1.247 jufi 4578: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4579:
1.69 deraadt 4580: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4581: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4582:
1.247 jufi 4583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4584: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4585: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4586:
1.69 deraadt 4587: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4588: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4589: <p>
1.247 jufi 4590: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4591:
1.69 deraadt 4592: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4593: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4596: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4597: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4598: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4599:
1.383 jcs 4600: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4601: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4602: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4603:
1.247 jufi 4604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4605: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4606: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4607: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4608: <p>
1.247 jufi 4609: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4610:
1.69 deraadt 4611: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4612: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4615: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4616: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4617: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4618: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4619: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4620:
4621: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4622: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4623: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4624: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4625: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4626: <p>
1.247 jufi 4627: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4628:
4629: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4630: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4631:
1.247 jufi 4632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4633: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4634: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4635:
1.69 deraadt 4636: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4637: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4638: <p>
1.112 naddy 4639:
1.247 jufi 4640: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4641: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4642:
1.292 camield 4643: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4644: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4645: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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