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1.454 ! ian 19: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
! 23: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
! 24: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 25: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
! 26: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
! 27: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
! 28: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
! 29: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
! 30: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
! 31: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
! 32: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
! 33: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
! 34: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
! 35: "I have never used it."
! 36: <p>
! 37:
! 38: </ul>
! 39:
1.441 deraadt 40: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
41: <ul>
42: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 43: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
44: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
45: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
46: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
47: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
48: future enhancements.
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 52: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 53: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
54: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
55: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
56: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
57: North America mirror:
58: <ul>
1.452 marco 59: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 60: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
61: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 62: </ul>
63: European mirror:
64: <ul>
1.452 marco 65: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 66: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
67: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
68: </ul>
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 72: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
73: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
74: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
75: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
76: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
77: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 81: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
82: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
83: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
84: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
85: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
86: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
87: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
88: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 92: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
93: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
94: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
95: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
96: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
97: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
98: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
99: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 103: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 104: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 105: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
106: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
107: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
108: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
109: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
110: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
111: <p>
112:
113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
114: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 115: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 116: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
117: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
118: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
119: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
120: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 124: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
125: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
126: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 127: </strong></font><br>
128: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
129: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
130: with OpenBSD.
131: </ul>
132:
1.436 henning 133: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
134: <ul>
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 136: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
137: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
138: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
139: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
140: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
141: than closed source, as we have long contended.
142: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
143: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
144: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
145: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
146: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
147: <p>
148: This article can also be found online as
149: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
150: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 154: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
155: </strong></font><br>
156: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
157: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 161: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
162: </strong></font><br>
163: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
164: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 165: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 166: the issues we had with IETF.
167: </ul>
168:
1.431 ian 169: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
170: <ul>
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 172: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
173: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
174: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
175: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
176: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
177: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
178: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 182: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
183: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
184: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
185: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
186: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
187: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 188: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 189: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
190: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
191: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
192: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
193: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
194: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
195: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
196: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
197:
198: </ul>
199:
1.427 matthieu 200: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
201: <ul>
202:
203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 204: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
205: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
206: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
207: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
208: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
209: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
210: firmware.
1.434 ian 211: Similar articles can be found online at:
212: <ul>
213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
214: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
215: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
216: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
218: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
219: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
220: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
222: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
223: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
224: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
226: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
227: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
228: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
229: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 230: </ul>
231:
1.426 ian 232: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
233: <ul>
234:
235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
236: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
237: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
238: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
239: This article talks about our systrace
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
241: mechanism: what it is and why and
242: how to use it, with examples.
243: Another excerpt from the book
244: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
245: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
246: <p>
247:
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
249: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
250: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
251: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
252: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
253: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
254: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
255: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
256: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
257: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
258: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
259: This article is a sample chapter from
260: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
261: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
262: <p>
1.443 ian 263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
266: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
267: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
268: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
269: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
270: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
271: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
272: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
273: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
274: ends with a sidebar on security.
275: <p>
1.426 ian 276: </ul>
277:
1.424 ian 278: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
279: <ul>
280:
281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 282: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
283: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
284: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
285: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
286: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
287: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
288: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
289: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
290: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
291: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
292: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
293: <p>
294: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
295: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
296: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
297: <p>
298:
299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 300: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
301: Closed Source Hardware</a>
302: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
303: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
304: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
305: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
306: operating systems.
307: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
308: OpenBSD on his firewall.
309: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
310: systems, he writes:
311: <blockquote>
312: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
313: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
314: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
315: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
316: to the operating system...
317: <br/>
318: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
319: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
320: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
321: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
322: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
323: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
324: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
325: in a closed source operating system).
326: <br/>
327: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
328: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
329: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
330: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
331: </blockquote>
332: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
333: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
334: their hardware and software operates.
335: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
336: reverse-engineering the
337: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
338: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
339: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
340: <p>
341: </ul>
342:
1.417 pvalchev 343: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
344: <ul>
1.421 ian 345:
1.417 pvalchev 346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 347: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
348: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
349: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
350: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
351: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
352: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
353: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
354: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
355: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
356: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
357: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 358: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 359: <p>
360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 361: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
362: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
363: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
364: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
365: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
366: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
367: it claims to do".
368: <p>
369:
370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 371: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
372: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
373: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
374: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
375: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 376: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 377: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
378: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
379: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
380: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
381: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
382: (yes, this is a hint).
383: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
384: picked up on the
385: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
386: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
387: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
388: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
389: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
390: <p>
391:
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 393: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
394: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
395: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
396: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
397: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
398: questions about the significance and rationale behind
399: the current efforts.
400: <p>
401: </ul>
402:
1.407 henning 403: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
404: <ul>
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 406: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
407: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
408: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
409: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
410: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
411: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
412: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
413: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 417: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
418: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
419: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
420: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
421: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
422: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
423: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
424: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
425: of the important changes in 3.6.
426: </p>
427:
428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 429: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
430: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
431: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
432: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
433: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
434: overflow attacks... because
435: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
436: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
437: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
438: and propolice.
439: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
440: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
441: and that's when the science falls apart."
442: <p>
443:
444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 445: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
446: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
447: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
448: Starts with the question:
449: <blockquote>
450: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
451: <br/>
452: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
453: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
454: <br/>
455: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
456: Should we believe them?"
457: </blockquote>
458: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
459: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
460: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
461: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
462: for your mail, web and other online activities.
463: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 467: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
468: Simple Simon</a>,
469: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
470: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
471: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
472: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
473: routing/firewall, and more.
474: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
475: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
476: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
477: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
478: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
479: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
480: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
481: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
482: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
483: </blockquote>
484: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
485: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 489: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
490: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 491: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 492: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 493: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
494: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
495: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 496: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 497: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
498: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
499: in spite of it
500: (registration required, but worth it).
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
504: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
505: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
506: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
507: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
508: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
509: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
510: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 511: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 512: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
513: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
514: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
515: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 519: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
520: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
521: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
522: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
523: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
524: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
525: <blockquote>
526: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
527: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
528: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
529: a lot of analysis.
530: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
531: </blockquote>
532: <p>
533: </ul>
534:
1.400 marco 535: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
536: <ul>
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 538: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
539: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
540: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
541: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
542: UNIX-like systems.
543: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
544: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
545: <p>
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 547: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
548: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 549: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
550: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
551: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
552: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
553: At one point, the article states:
554: <blockquote>
555: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
556: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
557: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
558: </blockquote>
559: And then quotes Theo as saying:
560: <blockquote>
561: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
562: fewer are reading or auditing code."
563: </blockquote>
564: <p>
565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
566: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
567: marks its fifth birthday</a>
568: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
569: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
570: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
571: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
572: required).
573: <p>
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 575: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
576: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
577: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
578: </strong></font><br>
579: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
580: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
581: <p>
582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 583: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
584: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 585: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 586: </strong></font><br>
587: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
588: <p>
589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 590: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
591: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 592: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 593: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 594: 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 595: <p>
596: </ul>
597:
1.396 henning 598: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
599: <ul>
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 601: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
602: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
603: Unix Review, July, 2004
604: </strong></font><br>
605: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
606: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
607: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
608: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
609: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
610: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
611: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
612: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
613: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
614: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
615: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
616: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
617: and even spelling/wording errors.
618: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
619: <p>
620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 621: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 622: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
623: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
624: </strong></font><br>
625: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
626: <p>
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 628: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 629: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
630: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
631: </strong></font><br>
632: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
633: <p>
634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 635: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
636: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
637: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
638: </strong></font><br>
639: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
640: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
641: <p>
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 643: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
644: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
645: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
646: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
647: <p>
648: </ul>
649:
1.405 jolan 650: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
651: <ul>
652: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
653: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
654: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
655: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
656: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
657: details on how funds are dispersed.
658: <p>
659: </ul>
660:
1.393 david 661: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
662: <ul>
663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 664: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
665: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
666: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
667: </strong></font><br>
668: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
669: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
670: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
671: on inserting large number of SQL records.
672: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
673: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
674: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
675: <p>
676:
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 678: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
679: Secure by Default</a>,
680: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
681: </strong></font><br>
682: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
683: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
687: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
688: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
689: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
690: </strong></font><br>
691: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
692: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
693: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
694: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
695: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
696: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
700: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
701: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
702: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
703: </strong></font><br>
704: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
705: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
706: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
710: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
711: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
712: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
713: </strong></font><br>
714: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
715: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
716: <p>
717: </ul>
718:
1.388 mcbride 719: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
720: <ul>
1.394 jolan 721:
722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
723: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
724: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
725: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
726: </strong></font><br>
727: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
728: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
729: available for sparc64.
730: <p>
731:
1.390 beck 732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 733: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
734: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
735: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
736: </strong></font><br>
737: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
738: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
739: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
740: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 744: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
745: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 746: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 747: </strong></font><br>
748: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
749: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
750: it does: CARP provides sharing
751: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
752: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
753: detail to get you started using it.
754: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
755: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
756: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
757: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
758: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
759: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
760: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 761: <p>
1.391 ian 762:
763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 764: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 765: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
766: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 767: </strong></font><br>
768: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 769: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 770: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 771: <p>
1.388 mcbride 772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
774: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
775: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 776: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 777: </strong></font><br>
778: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
779: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
780: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
781: unencumbered by patents.
782: <p>
783: </ul>
784:
1.378 henning 785: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
786: <ul>
1.384 jose 787:
788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 789: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
790: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
791: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
792: </strong></font><br>
793: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
794: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
795: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
796: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
797: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
798: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
799: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
800: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
801: in the page tables."
802: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
803: <p>
804:
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 806: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
807: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
808: </strong></font><br>
809: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
810: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
811: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
812: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 813: <p>
1.384 jose 814:
1.378 henning 815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 816: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
817: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 818: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
819: </strong></font><br>
820: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
821: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
822: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
823: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
824: (quote:
825: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
826: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 827: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 828: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
829: the other developers for their work on the system.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 833: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
834: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
835: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 836: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 837: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
838: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
839: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
840: too.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 844: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
845: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 846: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 847: OpenBSD source code using
848: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
849: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
850: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
851: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
852: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
853: <p>
854: </ul>
855:
1.374 jose 856: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
857: <ul>
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 859: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 860: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
861: </strong></font><br>
862: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
863: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
864: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
865: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
866: it."
867: <p>
868:
869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 870: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
871: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
872: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
873: </strong></font><br/>
874: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
875: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
876: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
877: <p>
878: </ul>
879:
1.369 ian 880: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
881: <ul>
882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 883: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
884: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
885: </strong></font><br/>
886: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
887: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
888: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
889: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
890: <p>
891:
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 893: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
894: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
895: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
896: </strong></font><br/>
897: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
898: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
899: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
900: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
901: form factor.
902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
905: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
906: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
907: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
908: Features</a>,
909: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
910: </strong></font><br/>
911: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
912: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
913: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
914: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
915: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
916: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
917: <p>
918: This article can also be found online at:
919: <ul>
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 921: <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 922: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
923: </strong></font>
924: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
925: </ul>
926: <p>
1.392 david 927:
1.371 jose 928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 929: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
930: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 931: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
932: </strong></font><br/>
933: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
934: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
935: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 936: <p>
1.371 jose 937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 939: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 940: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 941: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 942: </strong></font><br/>
943: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
944: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
945: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
946: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
947: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
948: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
949: and its history with OpenBSD.
950: </ul>
951:
1.368 henning 952: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
953: <ul>
954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 955: [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 956: </strong></font><br>
957: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
958: </ul>
959:
1.364 jose 960: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
961: <ul>
962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 963: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
964: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
965: UNIX Review,
966: July, 2003.
967: </strong></font><br>
968: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
969: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
970: who want more information.
971: <p>
972:
973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 974: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
975: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
976: Government Computer News,
977: July 22, 2003.
978: </strong></font><br>
979: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
980: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
981: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
982: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
983: <p>
984:
985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
986: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
987: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
988: SANS Institute,
989: July 22, 2003.
990: </strong></font><br>
991: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 992: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 993: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
994: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
995: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
996: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
997: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
998: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
999: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1000: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1001: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1002: <p>
1003:
1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1005: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1006: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1007: OnLamp.com,
1008: July 17, 2003.
1009: </strong></font><br>
1010: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1011: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1012: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1013: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1014: have been working on.
1015:
1016: </ul>
1017:
1.356 jose 1018: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1019: <ul>
1020:
1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1022: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1023: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1024: UNIX Review,
1025: June, 2003.
1026: </strong></font><br>
1027: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1028: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1029: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1030: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1031: <p>
1032:
1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1034: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1035: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1036: eWeek,
1037: June 23, 2003.
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1040: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1041: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1042: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1043: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1044: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1048: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1049: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1050: Software Development Online,
1051: June, 2003.
1052: </strong></font><br>
1053: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1054: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1055: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1056: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1057: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1058: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1059: current activities.
1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1063: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1064: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1065: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1066: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1067: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1068: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1069: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1070: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1071: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1072: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1073: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1074: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1075: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1076: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1077: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1078: decisions.
1079: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1080: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1081: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1082: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1086: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1087: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1088: Page 58, eWeek,
1089: June 2, 2003.
1090: </strong></font><br>
1091: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1092: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1093: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1094: been addressed in -current.
1095: <p>
1096:
1.356 jose 1097: </ul>
1098:
1099: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1100: <ul>
1101:
1.355 jose 1102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1103: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1104: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1105: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1106: </strong></font><br>
1107: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1108: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1109: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1110: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1111: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1112: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1113: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1117: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1118: Beyond Linux</a>,
1119: InfoWorld,
1120: May 23, 2003.
1121: </strong></font><br>
1122: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1123: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1124: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1125: compared to the GPL.
1126: <p>
1127:
1128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1129: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1130: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1131: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1132: May 17, 2003.
1133: </strong></font><br>
1134: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1135: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1136: the business section and half of another page inside
1137: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1138: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1139: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1140: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1141: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1142: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1143: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1144: <br>
1145: This article can also be found online at:
1146: <ul>
1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1148: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1149: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1150: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1151: May 17, 2003
1152: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1153: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1155: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1156: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1157: Montreal Gazette,
1158: May 21, 2003
1159: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1160: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1161: <p>
1.346 ian 1162:
1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1164: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1165: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1166: May 7, 2003.
1167: </strong></font><br>
1168: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1169: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1170: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1171: <p>
1172:
1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1174: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1175: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1176: OsOpinion,
1177: May 6, 2003.
1178: </strong></font><br>
1179: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1180: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1181: <br>
1182: This article can also be found online at:
1183: <ul>
1184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1185: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1186: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1187: NewsFactor Network.
1188: </strong></font>
1189: </ul>
1190: <p>
1191:
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1193: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1194: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1195: ITBusiness,
1196: May 2, 2003.
1197: </strong></font><br>
1198: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1199: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1200: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1201: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1202: <p>
1203:
1204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1205: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1206: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1207: InfoWorld,
1208: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1209: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1210: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1211: <br>
1212: This article can also be found online at:
1213: <ul>
1214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1215: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1216: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1217: IDG Singapore.
1218: </strong></font>
1219: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1220: <p>
1221:
1.339 jose 1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1223: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1224: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1225: ZDNet,
1226: May 1, 2003.
1227: </strong></font><br>
1228: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1229: someone using parts from previous articles.
1230: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1231: This article can also be found online at:
1232: <ul>
1233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1234: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1235: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1236: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1237: </strong></font>
1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1239: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1240: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1241: CNET News.com.
1242: </strong></font>
1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1244: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1245: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1246: ZDNet UK.
1247: </strong></font>
1248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1249: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1250: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1251: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1252: </strong></font>
1253: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1254: <p>
1.339 jose 1255:
1.341 deraadt 1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1257: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1258: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1259: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1260: May 1, 2003.
1261: </strong></font><br>
1262: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1263: that have been added
1264: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1265: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1266: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1267: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1268: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1269: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1270: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1271: <p>
1272:
1273: </ul>
1274:
1.253 ian 1275: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1276: <ul>
1.255 ian 1277:
1.260 ian 1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1279: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1280: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1281: TechRepublic,
1282: April 28, 2003.
1283: </strong></font><br>
1284: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1285: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1286: work.<br>
1287: Can also be found online at:
1288: <ul>
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1290: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1291: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1292: ZDNet UK.
1293: </strong></font>
1294: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1295: <p>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1298: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1299: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1300: IDG,
1301: April 24, 2003.
1302: </strong></font><br>
1303: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1304: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1305: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1306: Can also be found online at:
1307: <ul>
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1309: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1310: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1311: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1312: </strong></font>
1313: </ul>
1314: <p>
1315:
1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1317: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1318: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1319: Slate,
1320: April 24, 2003.
1321: </strong></font><br>
1322: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1323: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1324: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1325: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1329: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1330: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1331: April 24, 2003.
1332: </strong></font><br>
1333: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1334: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1335: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1336: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1337: <p>
1338:
1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1340: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1341: April 24, 2003.
1342: </strong></font><br>
1343: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1344: the free software community".
1345: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1346: other articles.
1347: <p>
1348:
1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1350: <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 1351: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1352: </strong></font><br>
1353: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1354: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1355: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1356: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1357: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1358: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1359: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1360: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1361: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1362: <br/>
1363: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1364: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1365: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1366: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1367: <br>
1368: Can also be found online at:
1369: <ul>
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1371: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1372: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1373: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1374: </strong></font>
1375: </ul>
1.324 ian 1376: <p>
1377:
1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1379: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1380: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1381: </strong></font><br>
1382: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1383: article above.
1384: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1385: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1386: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1387: <br>
1388: Can also be found online at:
1389: <ul>
1390: <li>
1391: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1392: </strong></font>
1393: </ul>
1.324 ian 1394: <p>
1395:
1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1397: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1398: </strong></font><br>
1399: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1403: <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.
1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1406: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1410: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1411: April 23, 2003.
1412: </strong></font><br>
1413: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1414: <p>
1415:
1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1417: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1418: April 22, 2003.
1419: </strong></font><br>
1420: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1421: <p>
1422:
1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1424: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1425: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1426: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1427: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1428: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1429: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1430: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1431: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1432: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1433: Can also be found online at:
1434: <ul>
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1436: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1437: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1438: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1439: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1441: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1442: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1443: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1444: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1445: </ul>
1446: <p>
1447:
1448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1449: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1450: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1451: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1452: </strong></font><br>
1453: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1454: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1455: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1456: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1457: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1458: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1459: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1460: <p>
1461:
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1463: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1464: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1465: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1466: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1467: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1468: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1469: at UPenn and DARPA.
1470: <p>
1471:
1472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1473: [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,
1474: France
1.315 deraadt 1475: April 18, 2003.
1476: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1477: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1481: [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 1482: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1483: </strong></font><br>
1484: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1488: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1489: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1490: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1491: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1492: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1493: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1494: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1495: <p>
1496:
1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1498: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1499: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1500: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1501: </strong></font><br>
1502: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1503: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1504: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1505: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1506: <p>
1507:
1508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1509: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1510: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1511: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1512: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1513: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1514: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1515: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1516: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1517: Can also be found online at:
1518: <ul>
1519: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1520: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1521: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1522: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1523: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1524: <p>
1525:
1526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1527: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1528: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1529: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1530: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1531: </strong></font><br>
1532: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1533: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1534: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1535: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1536: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1537:
1538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1539: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1540: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1541: New York Times.
1542: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1543:
1.273 deraadt 1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1545: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1546: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1547: ABC News.
1548: </strong></font>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1551: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1552: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1553: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1554: </strong></font>
1555:
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1557: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1558: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1559: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1560: </strong></font>
1561:
1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1563: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1564: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1565: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1566: </strong></font>
1567:
1568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1569: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1570: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1571: Times Daily, AL.
1572: </strong></font>
1573:
1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1575: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1576: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1577: Boston.com, MA.
1578: </strong></font>
1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1581: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1582: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1583: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1584: </strong></font>
1585:
1586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1587: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1588: [Article was pulled]</a>
1589: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1590: </strong></font>
1591:
1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1593: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1594: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1595: Infoshop News.
1596: </strong></font>
1597:
1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1599: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1600: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1601: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1602: </strong></font>
1603:
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1605: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1606: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1607: Raleigh News, NC.
1608: </strong></font>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1611: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1612: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1613: Napa News, CA.
1614: </strong></font>
1615:
1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1617: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1618: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1619: NEPA News, PA.
1620: </strong></font>
1621:
1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1623: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1624: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1625: Wired News.
1626: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1627: <br>
1628: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1629: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1630: [JAPANESE]
1631: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1632: Wired News Japan</a>
1633: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1634:
1.271 deraadt 1635: </ul>
1636: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1637: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1638: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1639: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1640: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1641: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1642: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1643: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1644: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1645: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1646: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1647: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1648: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1649: <p>
1650: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1651:
1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1653: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1654: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1655: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1656: </strong></font>
1657:
1658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1659: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1660: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1661: Miami Herald, FL.
1662: </strong></font>
1663:
1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1665: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1666: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1667: </strong></font>
1668:
1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1670: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1671: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1672: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1673: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1674:
1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1676: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1677: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1678: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1679: ABC News.
1680: </strong></font>
1681:
1.276 deraadt 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1683: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1684: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1685: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1686: </strong></font>
1687:
1.286 dhartmei 1688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1689: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1690: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1691: Wilmington Star, NC.
1692: </strong></font>
1693:
1.300 jose 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1695: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1696: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1697: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1698: </strong></font>
1699:
1.309 jose 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1701: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1702: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1703: Globe Technology.
1704: </strong></font>
1705:
1.263 deraadt 1706: </ul>
1.262 beck 1707: <p>
1708:
1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1710: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1711: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1712: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1713: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1714: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1715: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1716: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1717: <p>
1718:
1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1720: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1721: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1722: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1723: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1724: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1725: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1726: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1727: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1728: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1729: and simply restates other press reports.
1730: <p>
1731:
1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1733: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1734: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1735: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1736: </strong></font><br>
1737: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1741: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1742: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1743: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1746: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1747: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1748: <p>
1749:
1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1751: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1752: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1753: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1754: April 17, 2003.
1755: </strong></font><br>
1756: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1757: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1758: Tech Anthems</a>
1759: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1760: 4 so far.
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1764: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1765: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1766: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1767: </strong></font><br>
1768: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1769: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1770: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1771: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1772: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1773: Goes on to say:
1774: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1775: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1776: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1777: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1778: This article is also found online at:
1779: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1781: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1782: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1783: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1784: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1786: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1787: ZDnet</a>,
1788: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1789: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1791: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1792: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1793: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1794: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1795: </ul>
1.260 ian 1796: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1797:
1.260 ian 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1799: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1800: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1801: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1802: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1803: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1804: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1805: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1806: without notice or justification.
1807: <p>
1808:
1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1810: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1811: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1812: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1813: </strong></font><br>
1814: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1815: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1816: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1817: effective today, without any warning..."
1818: <p>
1.257 ian 1819:
1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1821: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1822: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1823: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1824: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1825: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1826: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1827: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1828: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1829: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1830: <p>
1831:
1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1833: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1834: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1835: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1836: </strong></font><br>
1837: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1838: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1839: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1840: quoting two of them:
1841: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1842: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1843: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1844: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1845: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1846: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1847: <p>
1848:
1.255 ian 1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1850: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1851: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1852: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1853: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1854: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1855: <p>
1856:
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1858: [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 1859: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1860: </strong></font><br>
1861: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1862: <p>
1863:
1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1865: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1866: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1867: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1868: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1869: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1870: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1871: security experts for more than three decades."
1872: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1873: <p>
1.261 ian 1874:
1.254 drahn 1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1876: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1877: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1878: </strong></font><br>
1879: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1880: <p>
1881:
1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1883: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1884: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1885: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1886: </strong></font><br>
1887: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1888: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1889: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1890: <p>
1891:
1892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1893: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1894: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1895: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1896: </strong></font><br>
1897: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1898: from US DARPA.
1899: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1900: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1901: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1902: the BSD license.
1903: <p>
1904: </ul>
1905:
1.251 ian 1906: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1907: <ul>
1908:
1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1910: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1911: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1912: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1913: </strong></font><br>
1914:
1915: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1916: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1917: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1918: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1919: <p>
1920:
1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1922: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1923: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1924: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1925: </strong></font><br>
1926: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1927: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1928: Mentions
1929: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1930: and
1931: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1932: programs.
1933: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1934: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1935: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1936: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1937: <p>
1.325 ian 1938: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1939: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1940:
1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1942: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1943: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1946: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1947: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1948: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1949: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1950: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1951: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1952: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1953: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1954: put into service."
1955: <p>
1956: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1957: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1958: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1959: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1960: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1961: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1962: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1963: computers with security features."
1964: <p>
1.329 ian 1965:
1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1967: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1968: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1969: Slate,
1970: March 3, 2003.
1971: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1972: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1973: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1974: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1975: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1976: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
1977: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
1978: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
1979: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
1980: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
1981: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
1982: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
1983: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
1984: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
1985: of more secure open-source solutions like
1986: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
1987: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
1988: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
1989: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
1990: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
1991: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
1992: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
1993: the Beltway."
1994: <p>
1.251 ian 1995: </ul>
1996:
1.249 jufi 1997: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
1998: <ul>
1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2000: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2001: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2002: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2003: </strong></font><br>
2004: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2005: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2006: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2007: <p>
1.334 ian 2008:
2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2010: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2011: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2012: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2013: </strong></font><br>
2014: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2015: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2016: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2017: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2018: "... the hypothetical question ...
2019: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2020: <br>
2021: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2022: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2023: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2024: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2025: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2026: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2027: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2028: support network security.
2029: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2030: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2031: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2032: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2033: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2034: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2035: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2036: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2037: <br>
2038: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2039: <p>
2040:
1.249 jufi 2041: </ul>
2042:
1.246 jufi 2043: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2044: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2045:
1.247 jufi 2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2047: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2048: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
2049: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2050: </strong></font><br>
2051: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2052: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2053: <p>
2054:
1.247 jufi 2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2056: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2057: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
2058: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
2059: </strong></font><br>
2060: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2061: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2062: <p>
2063:
2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2065: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2066: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
2067: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2068: </strong></font><br>
2069: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2070: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2071: <p>
1.247 jufi 2072: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2073:
1.244 jufi 2074: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2075: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2076:
1.247 jufi 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2078: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2079: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2080: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2081: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2082: </strong></font><br>
2083: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2084: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2085: md5 digests.
2086: <p>
2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2089: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2090: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2091: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2094: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2095: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2096: right the first time."
2097: <p>
1.247 jufi 2098: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2099:
2100:
2101: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2102: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2103:
1.247 jufi 2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2105: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2106: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2107: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2108: </strong></font><br>
2109: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2110: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2111: part 6</a>.
2112: <p>
2113:
1.247 jufi 2114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2115: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2116: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2117: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2118: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2119: </strong></font><br>
2120: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2121: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2122: <p>
1.301 jose 2123:
2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2125: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2126: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2127: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2128: </strong></font><br>
2129:
2130: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2131: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2132: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2133: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2134: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2135: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2136: <i>Here's the
2137: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2138: <p>
1.247 jufi 2139: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2140:
2141: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2142: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2143:
1.247 jufi 2144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2145: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2146: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2147: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2148: </strong></font><br>
2149: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2150: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2151: <p>
2152:
1.247 jufi 2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2154: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2155: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2156: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2157: </strong></font><br>
2158: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2159: this time using pf.
2160: <p>
1.247 jufi 2161: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2162:
2163: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2164: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2165:
1.247 jufi 2166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2167: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2168: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2169: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2170: </strong></font><br>
2171: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2172: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2173: their rotation.
2174: <p>
2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2177: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2178: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2179: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2180: </strong></font><br>
2181: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2182: <p>
1.247 jufi 2183: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2184:
1.239 jufi 2185: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2186: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2187:
1.247 jufi 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2189: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2190: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2191: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2192: </strong></font><br>
2193: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2194: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2195: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2196: <p>
2197:
1.247 jufi 2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2199: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2200: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2201: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2202: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2203: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2204: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2205: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2206: <p>
1.247 jufi 2207: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2208:
1.235 lebel 2209: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2210: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2211:
1.239 jufi 2212:
1.247 jufi 2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2214: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2215: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2216: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2217: </strong></font><br>
2218: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2219: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2220: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2221: <p>
1.301 jose 2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2224:
1.228 horacio 2225: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2226: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2227:
1.247 jufi 2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2229: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2230: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2231: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2232: </strong></font><br>
2233: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2234: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2238: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2239: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2240: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2241: </strong></font><br>
2242: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2243: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2244: <p>
2245:
1.247 jufi 2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2247: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2248: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2249: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2250: </strong></font><br>
2251: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2252: on the desktop of his parents.
2253: <p>
2254:
1.247 jufi 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2256: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2257: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2258: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2259: </strong></font><br>
2260: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2261: using IPFilter.
2262:
2263: <p>
2264:
1.247 jufi 2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2266: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2267: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2268: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2269: </strong></font><br>
2270: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2271: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2272: perspectives of the four OS.
2273: <br>
2274: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2275: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2276: <p>
2277:
1.247 jufi 2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2279: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2280: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2281: software and security</a>,
2282: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2283: </strong></font><br>
2284:
2285: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2286: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2287: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2288: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2289: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2290: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2291: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2292: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2293: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2294: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2295: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2296: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2297: <p>
1.247 jufi 2298: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2299:
1.225 horacio 2300: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2301: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2304: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2305: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2306: Interview</a>,
2307: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2308: </strong></font><br>
2309:
2310: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2311: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2312: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2313: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2314: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2315: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2316: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2317: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2318: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2319: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2320: of choice.
2321: <p>
1.247 jufi 2322: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2323:
2324: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2325: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2326:
1.247 jufi 2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2328: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2329: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2330: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2331: </strong></font><br>
2332:
2333: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2334: <p>
2335:
1.247 jufi 2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2337: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2338: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2339: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2340: </strong></font><br>
2341:
2342: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2343: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2344: <p>
1.247 jufi 2345: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2346:
1.218 horacio 2347: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2348: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2349:
1.247 jufi 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2351: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2352: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2353: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2354: </strong></font><br>
2355:
2356: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2357: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2358: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2359: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2360: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2361: subjects. Worth a read.
2362: <p>
2363:
2364:
1.247 jufi 2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2366: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2367: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2368: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2369: </strong></font><br>
2370:
2371: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2372: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2373: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2374: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2375: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2376: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2377: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2378: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2379: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2380: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2381: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2382: on other operating systems.<br>
2383: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2384: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2385: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2386: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2387: <p>
2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2390: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2391: Operating System 2010</a>,
2392: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2393: </strong></font><br>
2394:
2395: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2396: covering the level of software integration into the core
2397: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2398: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2399: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2400: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2401: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2402: <p>
2403:
1.247 jufi 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2405: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2406: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2407: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2408: </strong></font><br>
2409:
2410: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2411: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2412: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2413: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2414: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2415: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2416: <p>
1.247 jufi 2417: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2418:
1.210 jufi 2419: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2420: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2421:
1.247 jufi 2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2423: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2424: Already a Contender</a>,
2425: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2426: </strong></font><br>
2427:
2428: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2429: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2430: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2431: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2432: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2433: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2434: <p>
2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2437: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2438: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2439: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2440: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2441:
1.224 horacio 2442: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2443: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2444: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2445: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2446: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2447: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2448: <p>
1.247 jufi 2449: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2450:
2451: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2452: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2455: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2456: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2457: Division</a>,
2458: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2459: </strong></font><br>
2460:
2461: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2462: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2463: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2464: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2465: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2466: investment</em>.<br>
2467: The implementation details can be seen on their
2468: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2469: <p>
2470:
1.247 jufi 2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2472: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2473: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2474: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2475: </strong></font><br>
2476:
2477: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2478: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2479: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2480: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2481: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2482: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2483: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2484: <p>
2485:
2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2487: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2488: Thinking about Security</a>,
2489: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2490: </strong></font><br>
2491:
2492: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2493: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2494: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2495: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2496: to time.<br>
2497: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2498: system and just the most secure system.
2499: <p>
2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2502: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2503: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2504: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2505: </strong></font><br>
2506:
2507: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2508: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2509: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2510: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2511: choice:<br>
2512: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2513: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2514: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2515: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2516: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2517: network security devices and as such must be well
2518: armored."</em><br>
2519: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2520: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2521: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2522: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2523: <br>
2524: Bravo!
2525: <p>
1.247 jufi 2526: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2527:
1.207 ian 2528: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2529: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2530:
1.247 jufi 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2532: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2533: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2534: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2535:
1.207 ian 2536: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2537: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2538: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2539: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2540: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2541: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2542: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2543: <p>
1.247 jufi 2544: </ul>
1.207 ian 2545:
1.194 jufi 2546: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2547: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2548:
1.247 jufi 2549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2550: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2551: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2552: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2553: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2554:
1.240 miod 2555: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2556: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2557: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2558: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2559: <p>
2560:
1.247 jufi 2561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2562: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2563: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2564: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2565:
2566: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2567: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2568: <p>
2569:
2570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2571: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2572: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2573: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2574:
2575: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2576: <p>
2577:
2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2579: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2580: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2581: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2582: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2583:
1.240 miod 2584: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2585: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2586: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2587: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2588: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2589: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2590: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2591: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2592: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2593: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2594: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2595: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2596: <p>
2597:
1.247 jufi 2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2599: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2600: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2601: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2602: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2603:
1.194 jufi 2604: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2605: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2606: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2607: <br>
2608: The new
2609: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2610: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2611: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2612: <p>
1.247 jufi 2613: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2614:
1.190 horacio 2615: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2616: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2617:
1.247 jufi 2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2619:
2620: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2621: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2622:
1.301 jose 2623:
1.191 jufi 2624: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2625: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2626:
2627: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2628: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2629:
1.212 horacio 2630: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2631: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2632: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2633:
1.211 horacio 2634: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2635: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2636: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2637:
1.247 jufi 2638: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2639: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2642: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2643:
1.212 horacio 2644: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2645: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2646: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2647:
2648: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2649: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2650:
2651: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2652: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2653:
1.301 jose 2654: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2655: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2656:
1.191 jufi 2657: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2658: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2659:
2660: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2661: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2662:
1.192 jufi 2663: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2664: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2665: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2666:
1.193 deraadt 2667: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2668: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2669: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2670:
1.247 jufi 2671: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2672: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2673:
1.247 jufi 2674: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2675: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2676: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2677:
1.213 horacio 2678: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2679: 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 2680: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2681:
1.190 horacio 2682: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2683: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2684: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2685: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2686: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2687: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2688: <p>
1.190 horacio 2689:
1.247 jufi 2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2691: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2692: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2693: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2694: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2695:
1.195 jufi 2696: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2697: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2698: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2699: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2700: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2701: <p>
2702:
1.247 jufi 2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2704: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2705: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2706: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2707: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2708:
1.191 jufi 2709: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2710: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2711: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2712: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2713: <p>
2714:
2715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2716: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2717: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2718: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2719:
2720: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2721: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2722: <p>
1.247 jufi 2723: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2724:
1.191 jufi 2725:
1.186 jufi 2726: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2727: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2730: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2731: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2732: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2733: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2734:
1.188 jufi 2735: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2736: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2737: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2738: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2739: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2740: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2741: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2742: <p>
2743:
1.301 jose 2744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2745: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2746: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2747: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2748:
2749: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2750: <p>
1.191 jufi 2751:
1.247 jufi 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2753: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2754: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2755: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2756: </strong></font><br>
2757:
2758: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2759: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2760: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2761: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2762: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2763: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2764: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2765: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2766: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2767: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2768: familiar?
2769: <p>
1.247 jufi 2770: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2771:
1.178 louis 2772: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2773: <ul>
1.178 louis 2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2776: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2777: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2778: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2782: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2783: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2784: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2785: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2786: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2787: <p>
2788:
1.247 jufi 2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2790: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2791: Open source under the hood</a>,
2792: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2793: </strong></font><br>
2794:
2795: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2796: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2797: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2798: <p>
2799:
1.247 jufi 2800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2801: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2802: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2803: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2804: </strong></font><br>
2805:
2806: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2807: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2808: <p>
1.247 jufi 2809: </ul>
1.179 louis 2810:
1.174 louis 2811:
1.175 louis 2812: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2813: <ul>
1.175 louis 2814:
1.247 jufi 2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2816: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2817: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2818: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2819: </strong></font><br>
2820:
2821: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2822: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2823: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2824: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2825: <p>
2826:
1.247 jufi 2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2828: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2829: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2830: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2831: </strong></font><br>
2832:
2833: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2834: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2835: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2836: <p>
1.247 jufi 2837: </ul>
1.175 louis 2838:
1.176 louis 2839:
1.172 mickey 2840: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2841: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2842:
1.247 jufi 2843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2844: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2845: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2846: </strong></font><br>
2847:
2848: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2849: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2850: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2851: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2852: <p>
2853:
1.247 jufi 2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2855: <a
1.269 deraadt 2856: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2857: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2858: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2859: </strong></font><br>
2860:
2861: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2862: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2863: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2864: <p>
2865:
1.247 jufi 2866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2867: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2868: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2869: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2870: </strong></font><br>
2871:
2872: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2873: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2874: <p>
2875:
1.247 jufi 2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2877: <a
1.269 deraadt 2878: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2879: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2880: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2884: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2885: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2886: our own Theo de Raadt.
2887: <p>
2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2890: <a
1.269 deraadt 2891: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2892: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2893: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2894: </strong></font><br>
2895:
2896: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2897: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2898: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2899: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2900: shut down.]
2901: <p>
2902:
1.247 jufi 2903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2904: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2905: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2906: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2907: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2908: </strong></font><br>
2909:
2910: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2911: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2912: <p>
1.247 jufi 2913: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2914:
1.161 louis 2915: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2916: <ul>
1.161 louis 2917:
1.247 jufi 2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2919: <a
1.269 deraadt 2920: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2921: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2922: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2923: </strong></font><br>
2924:
2925: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2926: by John Wolley
2927: <p>
2928:
1.247 jufi 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2930: <a
1.269 deraadt 2931: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2932: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2933: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2934: </strong></font><br>
2935:
2936: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2937: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2938: OpenBSD).
2939: <p>
2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2942: <a
1.247 jufi 2943: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2944: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2945: </strong></font><br>
2946:
2947: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2948: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2949: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2950: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2951: and hindsight.
2952: <p>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2955: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2956: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2957: </strong></font><br>
2958:
2959: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2960: <p>
2961:
1.247 jufi 2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2963: <a
1.168 provos 2964: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2965: December 7, 2000
2966: </strong></font><br>
2967:
2968: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2969: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2970: us explain.
2971: <p>
2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2974: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2975: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2976: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 2977: December 6, 2000
2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
2981: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
2982: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
2983: <p>
2984:
1.247 jufi 2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2986: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
2987: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
2988: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2989: </strong></font><br>
2990:
2991: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2992: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2993: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2994: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2995: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2996: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2997: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
2998: <p>
2999:
3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3001: <a
1.226 horacio 3002: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3003: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3004: </strong></font><br>
3005:
3006: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3007: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3008: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3009: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3010: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3011: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3012: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3013: <p>
1.162 millert 3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3016: <a
1.161 louis 3017: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3018: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3019: </strong></font><br>
3020:
3021: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3022: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3023: <p>
3024:
1.247 jufi 3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3026: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3027: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3028: </strong></font><br>
3029:
3030: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3031: <p>
3032:
3033:
1.247 jufi 3034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3035: <a
1.226 horacio 3036: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3037: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3038: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3039: </strong></font><br>
3040:
3041: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3042: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3043: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3044: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3045: <p>
1.247 jufi 3046: </ul>
1.169 louis 3047:
1.158 louis 3048: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3049: <ul>
1.147 louis 3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3052: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3053: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055:
3056: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3057: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3058: <p>
3059:
1.247 jufi 3060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3061: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3062: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3063: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3064: </strong></font><br>
3065: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3066: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3067: <p>
3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3070: <a
3071: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3072: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3076: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3077: <p>
3078:
1.247 jufi 3079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3080: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3081: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3082: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3083:
1.213 horacio 3084: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3085: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3086: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3087: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3088: <p>
1.215 horacio 3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3091: <a
3092: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3093: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3094: </strong></font><br>
3095:
3096: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3097: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3098: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3099: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3100: much of the attitude too).
3101: <p>
1.161 louis 3102:
1.247 jufi 3103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3104: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3105: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3106: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3107:
1.157 louis 3108: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3109: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3110: <p>
1.247 jufi 3111: </ul>
1.157 louis 3112:
3113: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3114: <ul>
1.157 louis 3115:
1.247 jufi 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3117: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3118: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3119: </strong></font><br>
3120:
3121: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3122: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3123: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3124: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3125: <p>
3126:
1.247 jufi 3127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3128: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3129: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3130: </strong></font><br>
3131:
3132: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3133: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3134: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3135: it because they love coding...
3136: <p>
3137:
1.247 jufi 3138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3139: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3140: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3141: </strong></font><br>
3142:
3143: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3144: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3145: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3146: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3147: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3148: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3149: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3150: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3151: <p>
3152:
1.247 jufi 3153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3154: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3155: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3156: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3157: </strong></font><br>
3158:
3159: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3160: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3161: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3162: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3163: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3164: the pizza.
3165: <p>
3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3168: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3169: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3170: </strong></font><br>
3171:
3172: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3173: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3174: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3175: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3176: problems.
3177: <p>
3178:
1.247 jufi 3179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3180: <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 3181: </strong></font><br>
3182:
1.222 miod 3183: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3184: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3185: - whether they like it or not.
3186: <p>
3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3189: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3190: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3191: </strong></font><br>
3192:
3193: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3194: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3195: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3196: <p>
1.148 aaron 3197:
1.247 jufi 3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3199: <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 3200: </strong></font><br>
3201:
3202: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3203: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3204: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3205: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3206: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3207: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3208: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3209: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3210: <p>
3211:
1.247 jufi 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3213: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3214: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3215: </strong></font><br>
3216:
3217: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3218: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3219: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3220: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3221: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3222: <p>
1.247 jufi 3223: </ul>
1.147 louis 3224:
1.138 louis 3225: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3226: <ul>
1.138 louis 3227:
1.247 jufi 3228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3229: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3230: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3231: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3232: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3233: </strong></font><br>
3234:
1.227 horacio 3235: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3236: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3237: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3238: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3239: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3240: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3241: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3242: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3243: <p>
3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3246: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3247: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3248: </strong></font><br>
3249:
3250: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3251: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3252: groups, and even Linux.
3253: <p>
3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3256: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3257: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3258: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3259: </strong></font><br>
3260:
3261: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3262: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3263: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3264: library after installing the OS.
3265: <p>
3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3268: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3269: Sys Admin, September 2000
3270: </strong></font><br>
3271:
3272: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3273: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3274: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3275: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3276: (<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>,
3277: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3278: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3279: <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 3280: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3281: out of the system.
3282: <p>
3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3285: <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
3286: </strong></font><br>
3287:
3288: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3289: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3290: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3291: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3292: the IP filtering and address translation.
3293: <p>
1.301 jose 3294:
3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3296: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3297: </strong></font><br>
3298:
3299: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3300: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3301: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3302: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3303: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3304: <p>
1.247 jufi 3305: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3306:
1.131 louis 3307: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3308: <ul>
1.131 louis 3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3311: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3312: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3313: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3314: </strong></font><br>
3315:
3316: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3317: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3318: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3319: <p>
3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3322: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3323: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3324: </strong></font><br>
3325:
3326: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3327: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3328: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3329: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3330: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3331: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3332: note of"</i>.
3333: <p>
3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3336: <a
1.247 jufi 3337: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3338: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3339: </strong></font><br>
3340:
3341: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3342: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3343: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3344: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3345: <p>
3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3348: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3349: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3350: </strong></font><br>
3351:
3352: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3353: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3354: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3355: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3356: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3357: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3358: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3359: <p>
3360:
1.247 jufi 3361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3362: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3363: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3364: 2000
3365: </strong></font><br>
3366:
3367: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3368: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3369: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3370: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3371: against current industry practices.
3372: <p>
3373:
1.247 jufi 3374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3375: <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
3376: </strong></font><br>
3377:
3378: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3379: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3380: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3381: <p>
3382:
1.247 jufi 3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3384: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3385: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3386: </strong></font><br>
3387:
3388: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3389: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3390: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3391: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3392: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3393: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3394: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3395: <p>
3396:
1.247 jufi 3397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3398: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3399: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3400: </strong></font><br>
3401:
3402: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3403: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3404: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3405: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3406: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3407: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3408: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3409: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3410: <p>
1.247 jufi 3411: </ul>
1.131 louis 3412:
1.118 louis 3413: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3414: <ul>
1.118 louis 3415:
1.247 jufi 3416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3417: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3418: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3419: </strong></font><br>
3420:
3421: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3422: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3423: about time. The article mentions that
3424: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3425: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3426: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3427: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3428: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3429: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3430: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3431: <p>
3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3434: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3435: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3436: </strong></font><br>
3437:
3438: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3439: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3440: of OpenSSH.
3441: <p>
3442:
1.247 jufi 3443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3444: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3445: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3446: </strong></font><br>
3447:
3448: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3449: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3450: bridging.
3451: <p>
3452:
1.247 jufi 3453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3454: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3455: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3456: </strong></font><br>
3457:
1.121 deraadt 3458: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3459: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3460: <p>
3461:
1.247 jufi 3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3463: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3464: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3465: </strong></font><br>
3466:
3467: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3468: <p>
3469:
1.247 jufi 3470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3471: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3472: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3473: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3474: </strong></font><br>
3475:
1.120 deraadt 3476: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3477: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3478: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3479: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3480: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3481: <p>
3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3484: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3485: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3486: </strong></font><br>
3487:
1.222 miod 3488: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3489: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3490: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3491: protocols and their quirks.
3492: <p>
3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3495: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3496: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3497: </strong></font><br>
3498:
3499: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3500: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3501: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3502: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3503: <p>
3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3506: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3507: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3508: </strong></font><br>
3509:
3510: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3511: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3512: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3513: <p>
3514:
1.247 jufi 3515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3516: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3517: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3518: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3519: </strong></font><br>
3520:
3521: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3522: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3523: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3524: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3525: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3526: <p>
1.247 jufi 3527: </ul>
1.118 louis 3528:
1.104 louis 3529: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3530: <ul>
1.104 louis 3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3533: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3534: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3535: </strong></font><br>
3536:
3537: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3538: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3539: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3540: be a bit dry.
3541: <p>
3542:
1.247 jufi 3543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3544: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3545: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3546: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3547: </strong></font><br>
3548: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3549: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3550: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3551: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3552: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3553: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3554: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3555: <p>
3556:
1.247 jufi 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3558: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3559: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3560: 2000
1.128 louis 3561: </strong></font><br>
3562:
3563: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3564: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3565: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3566: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3567: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3568: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3569: <p>
3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3572: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3573: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3574: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3575:
3576: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3577: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3578: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3579: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3580: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3581: <p>
1.110 louis 3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3584: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3585: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3586: </strong></font><br>
3587:
3588: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3589: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3590: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3591: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3592: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3593: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3594: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3595: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3596: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3597: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3598: <p>
3599:
1.247 jufi 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3601: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3602: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3603:
3604: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3605: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3606: <p>
1.108 louis 3607:
1.247 jufi 3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3609: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3610: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3611: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3612:
3613: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3614: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3615: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3616: <p>
1.106 louis 3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3619: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3620: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3621: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3622:
3623: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3624: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3625: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3626: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3627: <p>
1.107 louis 3628:
1.247 jufi 3629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3630: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3631: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3632: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3633:
3634: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3635: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3636: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3637: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3638: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3639: <p>
1.105 louis 3640:
1.247 jufi 3641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3642: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3643: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3644: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3645:
1.113 naddy 3646: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3647: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3648: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3649: <p>
1.104 louis 3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3652: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3653: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3654: </strong></font><br>
3655:
3656: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3657: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3658: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3659: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3660: <p>
1.301 jose 3661:
3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3663: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3664: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3665: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3666:
3667: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3668: hardware-supported cryptography.
3669: <p>
1.247 jufi 3670: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3671:
1.85 louis 3672: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3673: <ul>
1.85 louis 3674:
1.247 jufi 3675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3676: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3677: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3678: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3679:
3680: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3681: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3682: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3683: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3684: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3685: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3686: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3687: <p>
1.99 louis 3688:
1.247 jufi 3689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3690: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3691: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3692: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3693:
3694: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3695: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3696: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3697: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3698: <p>
1.100 louis 3699:
1.247 jufi 3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3701: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3702: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3703: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3704:
3705: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3706: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3707: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3708: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3709: <p>
1.95 louis 3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3712: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3713: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3714: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3715:
3716: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3717: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3718: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3719: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3720: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3721: <p>
1.92 louis 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3724: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3725: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3726: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3727:
3728: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3729: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3730: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3731: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3732: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3733: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3734: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3735: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3736: <p>
1.91 louis 3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3739: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3740: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3741: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3742:
3743: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3744: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3745: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3746: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3747: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3748: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3749: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3750: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3751: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3752: <p>
1.90 louis 3753:
1.247 jufi 3754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3755: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3756: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3757: </strong></font><br>
3758: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3759: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3760: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3761: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3762: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3763: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3764: <p>
3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3767: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3768: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3769: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3770:
1.113 naddy 3771: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3772: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3773: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3774: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3775: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3776: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3777: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3778: <p>
1.87 louis 3779:
1.247 jufi 3780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3781: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3782: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3783: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3784:
3785: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3786: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3787: <p>
1.85 louis 3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3790: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3791: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3792: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3793:
3794: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3795: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3796: <p>
3797:
3798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3799: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3800: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3801: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3802:
3803: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3804: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3805: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3806: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3807: <p>
1.89 louis 3808:
1.247 jufi 3809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3810: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3811: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3812: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3813:
3814: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3815: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3816: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3817: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3818: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3819: </ul>
1.85 louis 3820:
1.78 deraadt 3821: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3822: <ul>
1.74 louis 3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3825: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3826: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3827: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3828: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3829:
3830: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3831: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3832: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3833: <p>
1.83 louis 3834:
1.247 jufi 3835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3836: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3837: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3838: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3839:
3840: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3841: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3842: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3843: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3844: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3845: <p>
1.93 louis 3846:
1.247 jufi 3847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3848: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3849: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3850: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3851: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3852:
1.83 louis 3853: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3854: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3855: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3856: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3857: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3858: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3859: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3860: <p>
1.82 aaron 3861:
1.247 jufi 3862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3863: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3864: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3865: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3866:
1.83 louis 3867: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3868: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3869: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3870: <p>
1.80 louis 3871:
1.247 jufi 3872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3873: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3874: Bad Press</a>,
3875: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3876: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3877:
3878: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3879: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3880: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3881: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3882: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3883: <p>
1.247 jufi 3884: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3885:
3886: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3887: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3888:
1.247 jufi 3889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3890: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3891: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3892: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3893: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3894:
3895: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3896: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3897: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3898: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3899: <p>
1.74 louis 3900:
1.247 jufi 3901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3902: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3903: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3904: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3905:
1.219 horacio 3906: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3907: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3908: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3909: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3910: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3911: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3912: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3913: <p>
1.88 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3916: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3917: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3918: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3919:
3920: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3921: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3922: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3923: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3924: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3925: <p>
1.81 louis 3926:
1.247 jufi 3927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3928: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3929: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3930: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3931:
3932: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3933: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3934: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3935: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3936: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3937: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3938: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3939: <p>
1.90 louis 3940:
1.247 jufi 3941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3942: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3943: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3944: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3945:
3946: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3947: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3948: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3949: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3950: <p>
1.247 jufi 3951: </ul>
1.71 louis 3952:
1.69 deraadt 3953: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3954: <ul>
1.70 louis 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3957: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3958: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3959: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3960:
3961: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3962: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3963: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3964: <p>
1.70 louis 3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3967: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3968: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3969: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3970:
3971: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3972: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3973: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3974: <p>
1.68 louis 3975:
1.247 jufi 3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3977: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
3978: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 3979: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 3980: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 3981:
1.111 jufi 3982: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
3983: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 3984: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 3985: "secure by default" installation.
3986: <p>
1.64 louis 3987:
1.247 jufi 3988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 3989: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 3990: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3991: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 3992:
1.113 naddy 3993: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 3994: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 3995: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 3996: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
3997: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
3998: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 3999: <p>
1.66 louis 4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4002: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4003: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4004: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4005:
4006: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4007: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4008: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4009: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4010: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4011: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4012: <p>
1.83 louis 4013:
1.247 jufi 4014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4015: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4016: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4017: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4018:
4019: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4020: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4021: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4022: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4023: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4024: <p>
1.64 louis 4025:
1.247 jufi 4026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4027: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4028: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4029: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4030:
4031: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4032: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4033: <p>
1.301 jose 4034:
4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4036: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4037: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4038: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4039: </strong></font><br>
4040:
4041: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4042: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4043: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4044: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4045: Giving way to
4046: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4047: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4048: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4049: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4050: <p>
1.247 jufi 4051: </ul>
1.65 louis 4052:
1.69 deraadt 4053: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4054: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4055:
1.247 jufi 4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4057: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4058: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4059: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4060:
4061: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4062: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4063: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4064: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4065: <p>
1.88 louis 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4068: <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 4069: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4070:
4071: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4072: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4073: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4074: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4075: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4076: <p>
1.60 louis 4077:
1.247 jufi 4078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4079: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4080: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4081: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4082: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4083:
4084: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4085: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4086: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4087: <p>
1.58 louis 4088:
1.247 jufi 4089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4090: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4091: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4092:
4093: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4094: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4095: <p>
1.53 louis 4096:
1.247 jufi 4097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4098: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4099: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4100: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4101:
4102: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4103: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4104: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4105: <p>
1.99 louis 4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4108: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4109: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4110:
4111: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4112: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4113: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4114: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4115: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4116:
1.247 jufi 4117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4118: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4119: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4120: </strong></font><br>
4121:
4122: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4123: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4124: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4125: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4126: <p>
4127:
1.247 jufi 4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4129: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4130: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4131: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4132:
4133: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4134: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4135: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4138: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4139: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4140:
4141: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4142: in
1.247 jufi 4143: <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 4144: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4145: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4146: <p>
1.53 louis 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4149: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4150: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4151: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4152: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4153:
1.58 louis 4154: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4155: <p>
1.301 jose 4156:
4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4158: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4159: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4160: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4161: Informacyjny, January 2000
4162: </strong></font><br>
4163:
4164: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4165: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4166: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4167: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4168: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4169: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4170: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4171: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4172: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4173: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4174: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4175: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4176: <p>
4177:
4178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4179: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4180: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4181: </strong></font><br>
4182:
4183: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4184: <p>
4185: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4186:
1.69 deraadt 4187: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4188: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4189:
1.247 jufi 4190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4191: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4192: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4193: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4194: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4195:
1.58 louis 4196: Kurt Seifried
4197: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4198: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4199: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4200: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4201:
1.247 jufi 4202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4203: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4204: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4205: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4206:
4207: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4208: <p>
1.96 louis 4209:
1.247 jufi 4210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4211: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4212: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4213: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4214: </strong></font><br>
4215:
4216: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4217: <p>
4218:
4219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4220: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4221: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4222: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4223:
4224: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4225: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4226: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4227: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4228: <p>
1.247 jufi 4229: </ul>
1.86 louis 4230:
1.69 deraadt 4231: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4232: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4233:
1.247 jufi 4234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4235: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4236: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4237: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4238:
4239: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4240: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4241: <p>
1.61 louis 4242:
1.247 jufi 4243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4244: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4245: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4246: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4247: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4248:
4249: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4250: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4251: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4252: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4253: right -- or at least strives to".
4254: <p>
1.48 louis 4255:
1.247 jufi 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4257: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4258: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4259: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4260: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4261: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4262: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4263: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4264: <p>
1.61 louis 4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <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 4267: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4268: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4269:
4270: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4271: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4272: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4273: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4274: <p>
1.46 louis 4275:
1.247 jufi 4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4277: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4278: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4279: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4280:
4281: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4282: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4283: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4284:
1.247 jufi 4285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4286: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4287: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4288: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4289:
4290: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4291: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4292: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4293: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4294: <p>
1.247 jufi 4295: </ul>
1.70 louis 4296:
1.69 deraadt 4297: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4298: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4299:
1.247 jufi 4300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4301: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4302: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4303: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4304: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4305:
4306: Kurt Seifried
4307: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4308: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4309: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4310: <p>
1.44 philen 4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: <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 4313: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4314: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4315:
4316: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4317: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4318:
1.247 jufi 4319: <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 4320: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4321: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4322:
4323: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4324: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4325:
1.247 jufi 4326: <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 4327: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4328: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4329:
4330: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4331: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4332: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4333: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4334: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4335:
1.247 jufi 4336: <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 4337: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4338: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4339:
1.36 louis 4340: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4341: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4342:
1.247 jufi 4343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4344: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4345: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4346: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4347:
4348: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4349: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4350: </ul>
1.38 louis 4351:
1.69 deraadt 4352: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4353: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4354:
1.247 jufi 4355: <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 4356: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4357: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4358:
4359: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4360: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4361: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4362:
1.113 naddy 4363: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4364: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4365: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4366: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4367:
4368: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4369: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4370: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4371: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4372: <blockquote>
4373: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4374: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4375: <br>
4376: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4377: </code>
4378: </blockquote>
4379: <p>
4380:
1.247 jufi 4381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4382: <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 4383: <p>
4384:
4385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4386: <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 4387: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4388:
4389: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4390: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4391: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4392: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4395: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4396: Sept. 28, 1999
4397: </strong></font><br>
4398:
4399: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4400: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4401: translating and reprinting articles from
4402: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4403: <p>
4404:
4405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4406: <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 4407: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4408:
4409: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4410: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4411: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4412: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4413: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4414: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4415: <p>
1.19 louis 4416:
1.113 naddy 4417: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4418: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4419: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4420:
4421: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4422: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4423: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4424: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4425: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4426: <p>
1.16 louis 4427:
1.247 jufi 4428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4429: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4430: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4431: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4432:
1.57 louis 4433: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4434: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4435: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4436: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4437:
1.247 jufi 4438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4439: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4440: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4441: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4442:
1.113 naddy 4443: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4444:
1.247 jufi 4445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4446: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4447: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4448: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4449:
1.23 louis 4450: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4451: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4452: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4453: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4454: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4455: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4456:
1.247 jufi 4457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4458: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4459: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4460: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4461:
1.199 pvalchev 4462: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4463: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4464: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4465: installation.
1.113 naddy 4466: <p>
1.47 louis 4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4469: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4470: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4471: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4472:
1.301 jose 4473: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4474: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4475: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4476: </ul>
1.57 louis 4477:
1.69 deraadt 4478: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4479: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4480:
1.247 jufi 4481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4482: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4483: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4484: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4485:
4486: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4487: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4488: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4489: <p>
1.12 louis 4490:
1.247 jufi 4491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4492: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4493: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4494: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4495:
4496: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4497: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4498: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4499: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4500: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4501: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4502: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4503: <p>
1.247 jufi 4504: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4505:
1.69 deraadt 4506: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4507: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4508:
1.247 jufi 4509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4510: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4511: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4512:
4513: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4514: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4515: available."
1.113 naddy 4516: <p>
1.301 jose 4517:
4518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4519: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4520: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4521: </strong></font><br>
4522:
4523: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4524: <p>
1.247 jufi 4525: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4526:
1.69 deraadt 4527: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4528: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4529:
1.247 jufi 4530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4531: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4532: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4533:
4534: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4535: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4536: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4537: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4538: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4539: <p>
1.33 louis 4540:
1.247 jufi 4541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4542: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4543: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4544: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4545:
1.113 naddy 4546: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4547: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4548: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4549: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4550: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4551: <p>
1.247 jufi 4552: </ul>
1.57 louis 4553:
1.69 deraadt 4554: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4555: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4556:
1.247 jufi 4557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4558: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4559: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4560: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4561:
4562: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4563: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4564: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4565:
1.247 jufi 4566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4567: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4568: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4569: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4570: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4571:
4572: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4573: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4574:
1.247 jufi 4575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4576: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4577:
1.113 naddy 4578: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4579:
1.247 jufi 4580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4581: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4582: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4583: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4584:
4585: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4586: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4587: </ul>
1.23 louis 4588:
1.69 deraadt 4589: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4590: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4591:
1.247 jufi 4592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4593: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4594: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4595:
4596: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4597: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4598: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4599:
1.247 jufi 4600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4601: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4602: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4603: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4604:
4605: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4606: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4607: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4608: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4609: </ul>
1.57 louis 4610:
1.69 deraadt 4611: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4612: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4615: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4616: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4617: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4618:
4619: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4620: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4621: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4622: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4623: <p>
1.15 louis 4624:
1.247 jufi 4625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4626: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4627: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4628: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4629:
4630: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4631: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4632: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4633: columns."
1.113 naddy 4634: <p>
1.247 jufi 4635: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4636:
1.69 deraadt 4637: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4638: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4639:
1.247 jufi 4640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4641: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4642: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4643: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4644:
4645: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4646: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4647:
1.113 naddy 4648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4649: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4650: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4651:
4652: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4653: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4654: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4655: </ul>
1.57 louis 4656:
1.69 deraadt 4657: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4658: <ul>
1.301 jose 4659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4660: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4661: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4662: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4663:
4664: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4665: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4666: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4667: <p>
4668:
4669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4670: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4671: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4672: Nov 13, 1998 and
4673: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4674: Datateknik</a>,
4675: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4676:
1.380 saad 4677: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4678: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4679: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4680: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4681: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4682:
1.113 naddy 4683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4684: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4685: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4686: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4687:
1.222 miod 4688: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4689: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4690: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4691: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4692: <p>
1.247 jufi 4693: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4694:
1.69 deraadt 4695: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4696: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4697:
1.247 jufi 4698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4699: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4700: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4701:
1.69 deraadt 4702: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4703: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4704: <p>
1.247 jufi 4705: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4706:
1.69 deraadt 4707: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4708: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4709:
1.247 jufi 4710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4711: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4712: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4713: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4714:
1.383 jcs 4715: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4716: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4717: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4718:
1.247 jufi 4719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4720: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4721: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4722: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4723: <p>
1.247 jufi 4724: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4725:
1.69 deraadt 4726: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4727: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4728:
1.247 jufi 4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4730: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4731: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4732: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4733: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4734: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4735:
4736: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4737: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4738: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4739: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4740: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4741: <p>
1.247 jufi 4742: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4743:
4744: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4745: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4746:
1.247 jufi 4747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4748: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4749: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4750:
1.69 deraadt 4751: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4752: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4753: <p>
1.112 naddy 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4756: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4757:
1.292 camield 4758: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4759: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4760: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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